Box Score
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Becky Latta (West
Chester, PA/Henderson) scored the game’s only goal early in the second
half to propel 17th-ranked Gettysburg over Washington College 1-0 in Centennial
Conference (CC) field hockey action on Saturday. Latta
knocked in a loose ball for her fourth game of the season, helping the Bullets
(10-3, 6-0 CC) run their winning streak to six games while remaining unbeaten
in conference play. Latta finished with a team-high five of Gettysburg’s 15 shots
on the afternoon.
Katherine
Corkhill (Paoli, PA/Acad. of Notre Dame) made three saves to record her
fifth shutout of the season.
Rachel
Miller took four of the Shorewomen’s six shots while Erin O’Brien kept
the hosts in the game with 11 saves.
Following
a scoreless first half that featured 13 corners, but only seven combined shots,
the Bullets struck 2 minutes, 8 seconds into the second frame.
Following Gettysburg’s first penalty corner of the second
half, Erin Peyton made a defensive save on Bridget Seidel
(Mohnton, PA/Governor Mifflin), but Latta corralled the rebound and found
the cage to make it 1-0.
O’Brien
made four saves in the next four minutes to keep Washington within a goal and
the Shorewomen escaped the Bullets’ final seven penalty corners of the game. Miller
put back-to-back shots on Corkhill inside the seven-minute mark, but the Gettysburg
keeper turned both aside to preserve the shutout.
Maura Downey (Lancaster, PA/Lancaster Catholic)
took three shots for the Bullets while Krissy Browning (Baldwin, MD/Fallston)
and Meg Goddu (Chadds Ford, PA/Unionville), the CC’s leading scorer,
finished with two apiece.
Gettysburg
returns to action on Sunday at home against Bryn Mawr. Game time is 1 p.m.
Score
by Half | 1 | 2 | - | F |
#17 Gettysburg (10-3, 6-0 CC) | 0 | 1 | - | 1 |
Washington College (3-10, 2-4 CC) | 0 | 0 | - | 0 |
Scoring
G
– Becky Latta, 37:08
Shots: G 15,
W 6. Penalty Corners: G 21, W 6. Saves: G 3 (Katherine Corkhill), W 11 (Erin O’Brien).
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