Box Score
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Junior midfielder
Katie Ceglarski (Darien, Conn./Darien) helped to account for 11 of Gettysburg's 16 goals to help her team build a 6-0 lead and cruise to a 16-3 win against Muhlenberg in Centennial Conference (CC) action at Clark Field on Tuesday night. Ceglarski had career highs with six goals and 11 points and matched her personal best set last Thursday with five assists.
Gettysburg (13-1, 8-0 CC) scored five goals in the first six minutes of the game and was up 9-1 with 12:30 to play before halftime. Senior captain
Katie Hagan (Media, Pa./Cardinal O'Hara) extended her points streak to 16 consecutive games with three goals and two assists for five points. Freshman midfielder
Lexie Hearn (Old Greenwich, Conn./Greenwich) netted a career-high two goals to match junior attacker
Krissy Browning's (Baldwin, Md./Fallston) production. Senior attacker
Jen Betts (Potomac, Md./Academy of the Holy Cross) picked up a goal and an assist for three points.
Ceglarski, the reigning CC Player of the Year, became the first Bullet with 11 points since Julika Blankenship had 12 in a 21-9 win against Ursinus in the 2003 CC semifinal. She also tied Browning's goal total from the 2006 Rowan game for the most by a Gettysburg player since Kathy Delauney struck for eight in the 2004 CC semifinal against Ursinus.
Muhlenberg (8-6, 2-6 CC) was led by two goals from sophomore attacker Sara Hiller, and junior midfielder Taylor Armstrong scored the Mules' other goal.
Gettysburg freshman goalie
Kristen Krammer (Woodbine, Md./Glenelg) played the first 36:05 in goal and made two saves to earn her 10th win of the season. Senior
Susan Meyers (Ridgewood, N.J./Immaculate Heart Academy) closed it out with one goal allowed and five saves.
Gettysburg dominated the draws, winning 16 to Muhlenberg's five. Ceglarski and junior midfielder
Megan Moore (Chestertown, Md./Gunston Day School) tied for the game high with four draw controls apiece.
Moore won the opening draw, and just 45 seconds later, the Bullets struck first with a goal by junior attacker
Jamie Giffuni (St. James, N.Y./Smithtown). Hagan assisted on the play. Less than a minute later Giffuni found Betts for the second goal. Gettysburg won the first five draw controls and maintained possession in the Muhlenberg end.
After Ceglarski's first goal with just 3:04 gone, Hagan netted the eventual game winner on an assist from Ceglarski at the 26:31 mark. It was Hagan's second straight game winner and third for the season. Betts and Ceglarski each scored again before Armstrong's goal got the Mules on the board and cut the deficit to 6-1.
Gettysburg then sandwiched a pair of three-goal runs around Hiller's first strike to take an 11-2 lead into halftime. In the first 30 minutes, the Bullets out-shot the Mules 22-3, en route to a 30-11 advantage for the game.
It took Ceglarski, who had four goals and three assists at the half, just 1:36 to find Hagan for the goal and the 12-2 lead. That started the clock running continuously for more than six minutes until an unassisted goal by Hiller drew the deficit back under 10 goals.
Ceglarski then scored a goal 1:28 later to start the clock running for the remainder of the game and break her previous career high of eight points scored against Cabrini on Apr. 26, 2005. She added another assist and a goal in the next 1:52 to complete her night.
The Bullets will be back in action on Saturday when they travel to Lancaster, Pa., to take on No. 1 Franklin & Marshall with the regular season title and top seed in the CC playoffs at stake. The opening draw is set for 1 p.m. Saturday will be the second time Gettysburg has faced the nation's top-ranked team this season, having defeated then-No. 1 TCNJ, 9-8, in overtime on Apr. 6.