Box Score
GETTYSBURG,
Pa. – Kathy Delauney (Lutherville, MD/Roland Park) scored a team-high
three goals to become one of Gettysburg’s all-time top-10 goal scorers and help
the fifth-ranked Bullets defeat Muhlenberg 16-5 in Centennial Conference (CC)
women’s lacrosse action on Saturday. Delauney
finished the day with 111 career goals, edging ahead of Kris Nagy (110 from 1990-93)
for 10th place on the all-time list. The senior also snapped a tie with Nagy for
10th place on the program’s all-time career points list (134).
Cassidy Zappacosta (Monkton, MD/Maryvale Prep)
and Jamie Giffuni (St. James, NY/Smithtown) added two goals and
one assist apiece for Gettysburg (12-3, 8-1 CC), which got goals from 12 different
players to improve to 18-0 all-time against the Mules (7-7, 3-6 CC).
Courtney Tapkas scored three times for Muhlenberg,
increasing her team-leading goal total to 46. Diana Bleakley made
15 saves on the day while facing 35 shots.
On
an overcast Senior Day, Gettysburg scored six goals in the game’s first eight
minutes and was never threatened.
The
senior tandem of Zappacosta and Quinn Dougherty (Wading River, NY/Shoreham-Wading
River) combined on the game’s first goal with Zappacosta finishing 65
seconds into the contest. Katie Ceglarski (Darien, CT/Darien) made
it 2-0 just 41 seconds later, picking up a rebound and firing home her 11th goal
of the year.
Zappacosta corralled
the ensuing draw control and Delauney scored in transition to make it 3-0. Bleakley
stopped Jenn Kelly (Westbury, NY/Carle Place) on a free-position
attempt moments later, but Dougherty scooped up the loose ball and Kelly converted
a second-chance opportunity for a four-goal lead.
Delauney scored her second goal of the game at 7:20, then
set up Ellie Shihadeh (Malvern, PA/Conestoga) 26 seconds later to
make it 6-0.
Tapkas stopped
the Bullet run and put the Mules on the board at 9:13 off a feed from Jessica
Geiger, but Gettysburg rattled off the next three goals and took a 10-3
lead into halftime. Delauney’s goal with 9:07 left in the first half broke the
program’s 10th-place tie and rounded out her four-point day.
Giffuni picked up all three of her points after halftime
to key the Bullets’ six-goal second half.
Katie
Lowe (Setauket, NY/Ward Melville) and Megan Moore (Chestertown,
MD/Gunston Day School) finished with two points apiece for Gettysburg.
Shannon Donohue added one goal and one assist
while Katie Reimann handed out two assists for Muhlenberg.
After wrapping up the regular season with non-conference
Cabrini on Tuesday, the Bullets face Ursinus in the CC semifinals on Saturday
at Franklin & Marshall. Game time is to be determined.
| Score by Half | 1 | 2 | - | F |
| Muhlenberg (7-7, 3-6 CC) | 3 | 2 | - | 5 |
| #5 Gettysburg (12-3, 8-1 CC) | 10 | 6 | - | 16 |
Goals:
Muhlenberg: Courtney Tapkas 3, Shannon Donohue, Taylor
Armstrong.
Gettysburg: Kathy
Delauney 3, Cassidy Zappacosta 2, Jamie Giffuni 2, Katie Lowe, Megan Moore, Cristi
Farrell, Katie Ceglarski, Krissy Browning, Jenn Kelly, Kelley Mishler, Jen Betts,
Ellie Shihadeh.
Assists:
Muhlenberg: Katie Reimann 2, Donohue, Jessica Geiger,
Steph Light.
Gettysburg: Delauney,
Giffuni, Lowe, Moore, Zappacosta, Quinn Dougherty.
Shots: M 12, G 35.
Ground
Balls: M 20, G 37.
Goalies:
M (Diana Bleakley – 60:00, 15 saves, 16 GA), G (Heather Kelley – 38:39, 4 saves,
3 GA; Susan Meyers – 21:21, 2 saves, 2 GA).
Draw
Controls: M 13, G 10.
Caused
Turnovers: M 5, G 9.
Turnovers:
M 32, G 20.
Fouls: M
11, G 5.
Free Position: M
0 of 1, G 1 of 3.
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