Box Score
GETTYSBURG, Pa. –
Ashley Ettinger
scored in the 53rd minute to put No. 4 Ursinus
ahead for good en route to a 3-1 Centennial Conference (CC)
field hockey victory at 16th-ranked Gettysburg
on Saturday.
With the win, the Bears
(15-1, 9-0 CC) grab their 25th-straight victory
over the Bullets (10-4, 7-2 CC) and secure home-field advantage
for the upcoming CC playoffs on Nov. 6-7.
Meg
Goddu (Chadds Ford, PA/Unionville)
scored the lone goal for Gettysburg
while Katherine Corkhill
(Paoli, PA/Academy of Notre Dame) made a career-high
14 saves on the day.
On a penalty corner at
the 52:40 mark, Ettinger
played a ball off a Bullet defender and sent a long shot
in from the top-right side of the circle to break a 1-all
deadlock and give Ursinus the
edge it needed for the victory.
Crystal
McCarney added an insurance goal in the 61st
minute, collecting the ball off a scramble in front of Corkhill
and lifting the shot over her and into the top of the cage
to set the final margin.
Joyce
Anne Koubaroulis ripped a shot from the top of the arc
on the Bears’ fourth penalty corner of the game to
get Ursinus on the board. Molly
Stevens sent the ball high where Koubaroulis
stopped it and sent the ball through the defense and into
the left corner of the cage to knot the game at 1, 17:02
into play.
At the 9:19 mark, Bridget
Seidel (Mohnton, PA/Governor
Mifflin) dumped the ball right, where Goddu collected
it and tapped it behind Bear keeper Jessica
Lamina for her fourth goal in two games and a 1-0
Gettysburg lead.
After Koubaroulis
tied the game, the Bullets carried play for the majority
of the remainder of the first half, collecting six shots
in a 4-minute, 34-second span culminated by Seidel getting
a ball past Lamina, but Marissa
Rotz was there to make the defensive save.
Ursinus
had its own chance for a 2-1 halftime advantage when the
Bears were awarded a penalty corner just before time expired,
but the defense held strong to keep it a 1-1 game at halftime.
Ursinus
finished with a 20-10 advantage in shots and an 18-8 edge
in penalty corners. Lamina made six saves in the victory.
By virtue of a 4-1 Dickinson
victory over Washington,
Gettysburg sits one-half game ahead of Franklin
& Marshall – who defeated the Bullets earlier in
the season – and the Red Devils.
The
Bullets look to stay out of the first-round game with a
victory at Dickinson on Wednesday. Game time is 3 p.m.
| Score by Period |
1 |
2 |
- |
F |
| (4) Ursinus (15-1, 8-0
CC) |
1 |
2 |
- |
3 |
| (16) Gettysburg (10-4, 7-2
CC) |
1 |
0 |
- |
1 |
Scoring
G – Meg Goddu, 9:19
U – Joyce Koubarouslis (Molly
Stevens), 17:02
U – Ashley Eddinger, 52:40
U – Crystal McCarney, 60:05
Shots: U 20, G 10.
Penalty Corners: U 18, G 8. Saves: U 6 (Jessica
Lamina), G 14 (Katherine Corkhill).
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