Box Score
COLLEGEVILLE, Pa.
– Jess Rogers tallied twice to lead
No. 4 Ursinus to a 4-1 win over 16th-ranked Gettysburg in the Centennial Conference (CC)
field hockey semifinals on Saturday.
In addition to Rogers’
two goals, Joyce Anne Koubaroulis added a goal
and two assists for the top-seeded Bears (18-1), who advanced
to their first-ever CC championship game.
Meg
Goddu (Chadds Ford,
PA/Unionville)
tallied the lone goal for the Bullets (12-7), whose 2004
season ends the same place the 2003 season concluded.
Koubaroulis
got Ursinus on the board in the 27th minute,
tallying off a Molly Stevens assist.
Rogers
got the eventual game-winner 1 minute, 35 seconds later
off Koubaroulis’ first assist
of the afternoon.
Karen
Wendler made it 3-0 at the intermission, scoring off
a Kourbaroulis assist at the 32:51
mark.
Goddu pulled Gettysburg
within two, netting her team-leading 13th goal
of the season at the 42:42 mark.
Rogers
set the final margin, taking a ball from Wendler
in the 57th minute and driving it home to make
it 4-1.
Jessica
Lamina made five saves for Ursinus in the winning
effort.
Katherine
Corkhill (Paoli, PA/Academy of Notre Dame) made 11 saves to close out her rookie
season for Gettysburg.
The Bears finished with
an 11-5 edge in penalty corners and a 16-6 advantage in
shots, and will face Franklin & Marshall in Sunday’s
championship. The Diplomats defeated Dickinson
in the other semifinal, 6-0.
| Score by Period |
1 |
2 |
- |
F |
| (16) Gettysburg (12-7) |
0 |
1 |
- |
1 |
| (4) Ursinus (18-1) |
3 |
1 |
- |
4 |
Scoring
U – Joyce Anne Koubaroulis
(Molly Stevens), 26:03
U – Jess Rogers (Koubaroulis),
27:38
U – Karen Wendler (Koubaroulis),
32:51
G – Meg Goddu, 42:42
U – Rogers (Wendler)
Shots: G 6, U 16.
Penalty Corners: G 5, U 11. Saves: G 11 (Katherine
Corkhill), U 5 (Jessica Lamina).
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