Box Score
ALLENTOWN,
Pa. – Becky
Latta (West Chester, PA/Henderson)
scored the go-ahead goal with 15:49 remaining and the Gettysburg defense held strong to give the 16th-ranked
Bullets a 2-1 victory at Muhlenberg in Centennial Conference
(CC) field hockey action on Wednesday.
After Meg
Goddu (Chadds Ford, PA/Unionville) tied the game in the 46th
minute, Latta took a pass from Maura
Downey (Lancaster, PA/Lancaster Catholic) to give
Gettysburg (8-3, 5-1 CC) its first win in Allentown since
1998.
Sara
Levin scored the lone goal for the Mules (8-5, 3-3
CC), who entered the game as the CC’s top-ranked defense,
allowing 0.72 goals per game.
Off a restart from just
outside the circle, Kelley Mishler (Moorestown,
NJ/Moorestown)
sent a ball to the middle of the circle, where Goddu collected
it and went around a pair of defenders and found an opening
in the right side of the cage to knot the game at 1, and
shift momentum to the visitors.
Taking its second consecutive
penalty corner, Latta redirected a direct pass from Downey
through the defense and to the backboard to give the Bullets
the lead for good.
At the 36:10 mark,
Levin rebounded a LisaAnn Polt
shot off Katherine
Corkhill’s (Paoli, PA/Academy
of Notre Dame)
lone save of the game to give Muhlenberg a 1-0 lead.
Neither team took control
in the first half with both teams having a pair of shots.
The best opportunity for either team came in the 30th
minute off Gettysburg’s
fifth penalty corner of the half. Katie
Lowe (Setauket,
NY/Ward Melville) ripped a shot from
the top-left of the arc, but Sarah
Fosdick stepped in front of the cage for the defensive
save.
Both teams finished with
five shots apiece, but the Bullets ended with an 8-4 edge
in penalty corners.
Lauren
Schram made two saves for the Mules.
Gettysburg improved to 6-0 on the road with the victory,
but surrendered a goal for the first time since the season-opening
4-1 win at Eastern Mennonite.
The
Bullets return to action on Saturday at home against Washington.
Game time is 1 p.m.
| Score by Period |
1 |
2 |
- |
F |
| (16) Gettysburg (8-3,
5-1 CC) |
0 |
2 |
- |
2 |
| Muhlenberg (8-5, 3-3 CC) |
0 |
1 |
- |
1 |
Scoring
M – Sara Levin, 36:10
G – Meg Goddu, 45:54
G – Becky Latta (Maura Downey), 54:11
Shots: G 5, M 5.
Penalty Corners: G 8, M 4. Saves: G 1 (Katherine
Corkhill), M 2 (Lauren Schram).
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