Box Score

SALISBURY, Md. – No. 5 Gettysburg held top-ranked Salisbury to a season-low 10 goals, but could not muster the offense to pull off the upset in Saturday's 10-6 loss in non-conference action at Sea Gull Stadium. The Sea Gulls have now won 80 of their last 81 games dating to the middle of the 2003 season.

Salisbury (11-0), which had been averaging over 21 goals per game, got at least one point from 12 different players. Junior attackman Matt Hickman led all players with four goals on the day, and junior midfielder Kyle Burto handed out three assists. Senior goalie Max Zarchin made eight saves to pick up the win.

For the Bullets (6-2), senior midfielder Kevin Freehill (Baldwin, N.Y./Baldwin) led the offense with a pair of goals, and sophomore attackman Rob Triplett (McLean, Va./McLean) added two assists. Senior goalie Pat Vaughan (Cockeysville, Md./Loyola Blakefield) was credited with 10 saves.

Statistically, the game was nearly even. Salisbury held a 32-30 advantage in shots, had four more ground balls, two fewer failed clears and three fewer turnovers. Meanwhile, Gettysburg senior midfielder Jimmy Gates (Basking Ridge, N.J./Ridge) won 11-of-20 faceoffs against three different Sea Gulls.

The one area where either team had an appreciable advantage was in man-up opportunities. The Bullets converted on 2-of-6 attempts while holding Salisbury 0-for-3.

The team alternated goals in the first quarter, but it took nearly nine minutes for the Sea Gulls to strike first. Hickman scored at the 6:17 mark of the period with an assist going to junior midfielder Michael Lennon. Gettysburg freshman Joe Brody (Bethesda, Md./Walter Johnson) answered unassisted just 1:25 later. Sea Gulls freshman midfielder Mike Von Kamecke put his team out in front again at 3:03 before Freehill knotted it up again at 2-2 with 54 seconds left in the period.

Salisbury outscored the Bullets 3-1 in the second quarter, taking the lead for good on Hickman's second goal at 7:40. Gettysburg sophomore attackman Zach Pucci (Ridgewood, N.J./Ridgewood) struck for the visitors' first man-up goal a little more than two minutes later, but senior midfielder Matt Dasinger ended the first-half scoring to put his team up 5-3 heading into the break.

Gettysburg again pulled within one goal 4:06 after halftime on a Freehill extra-man goal from Triplett that made it 5-4, but the Sea Gulls tallied the next four goals spanning the third and fourth quarters. Hickman notched the hat trick with his game winner at the 6:09 mark of the third, and Salisbury was able to keep Gettysburg at arm's length the rest of the way.

The Bullets will be back in action next Saturday when they play host to No. 6 Washington (Md.) in one of the Centennial Conference's biggest rivalries. The game will faceoff at 1 p.m.