Box Score
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Nick Wells-Bundtzen
(Williamstown, MA/Mt. Greylock) recorded eight saves and Gettysburg overcame
a 24-5 shot disadvantage to tie Johns Hopkins 0-0 in Centennial Conference (CC)
men’s soccer action on Wednesday. Jesse
Gemberling-Johnson (Wyndmoor, PA/Christopher Dock) took a team-high three
shots for the Bullets, who snapped a three-game losing streak to the Blue Jays
(5-1-3, 0-1-2 CC) while extending JHU’s tie-laden winless streak to four games
(0-1-3).
Steve Read
led Johns Hopkins with four shots while Nicholas Guana, Doug
Pollack and Ethan Mulligan fired three shots apiece. The
Blue Jays held a 14-2 edge in corner kicks for the game, but were unable to find
their first conference win of 2005.
Johns
Hopkins recorded the first four shots of the game, but Gettysburg’s Garrett
Bruno (Harrisburg, PA/Susquehanna Twp.) got the best look of the first
half, one-timing a left-footed drive that forced Dan Coble to make
a point-blank save in the 33rd minute.
The
Blue Jays stepped up the pressure with three corners and two shots in the final
five minutes of the half, but another Bullet counterattack resulted in a Brandon
Bell (Hagerstown, MD/N. Hagerstown) shot deflecting just wide of the left
post.
Johns Hopkins took 11
of the game’s 12 second-half shots, but Wells-Bundtzen was up to the challenge,
making two saves on Matthew Carlson and single stops against Read
and Traver Davis.
Coble’s
second and final save of the night came on Gemberling-Johnson’s header in the
73rd minute, set up by a strong half-field run by Mike Tirney (Springfield,
PA/Springfield).
Gettysburg
(4-3-2, 1-1-1 CC) survived JHU three shots in the final 11 minutes to reach the
overtime. In the first 20 seconds of extra time, Gemberling-Johnson lasered a
shot wide left, then struck another shot wide minutes later.
Manbaj Gill, who beat the Bullets with a
goal in last year’s meeting, nearly repeated the feat in the final seconds of
the first overtime, sailing a free kick just high over the crossbar. The Blue
Jays took the only four shots of the second overtime, but Wells-Bundtzen’s final
two saves sealed the tie.
Gettysburg
returns to action on Saturday at home against Ursinus. Game time is 2 p.m.
| Score
by Half | 1 | 2 | OT | OT | - | F |
| Johns Hopkins (5-1-3, 0-1-2 CC) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 |
| Gettysburg (4-3-2, 1-1-1 CC) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 |
Scoring
None.
Shots: J 24, G 5. Corner Kicks: J 14, G 2. Fouls: J 15, G 17.
Saves: J 2 (Dan Coble), G 8 (Nick Wells-Bundtzen).
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