Box Score

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – No. 3 Gettysburg scored three goals each in the third and fourth quarters to break open a one-goal game and earn its fifth straight win over Washington (Md.), 9-3, in Centennial Conference (CC) action at Shirk Field at Musselman Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Junior midfielder Ben Sufrin (Mahopac, N.Y./Mahopac) netted his first career hat trick, and the Bullet defense held the Shoremen to just 14 shots.

Gettysburg (7-2, 3-1 CC) junior attackman Trip Dyer (Ocean View, Del./Worcester Prep [Md.]) netted two goals, including the game winner, and an assist to tie Sufrin for the game high in points. Freshman attackman Joe Brody (Bethesda, Md./Walter Johnson) also scored twice.

Washington (8-3, 3-2 CC) junior attackman Chris Read, who came into the game averaging 4.10 points per game, was held to just one goal, which he scored less than two minutes into the game. Senior midfielder Anthony Hidell led the team with a goal and an assist for two points.

Read gave the Shoremen the early lead on a point-blank shot from near the right post, but Gettysburg senior midfielder Jimmy Gates (Basking Ridge, N.J./Ridge) consistently gave his team possession by winning the game's first eight faceoffs. He would take 11-of-16 overall and scoop four ground balls. Washington did not win a faceoff until after Dyer had scored the game-winning goal with 4:21 to go in the third quarter.

After Read's goal, Gettysburg controlled possession but it took almost seven minutes to tie it up. Brody picked up a ground ball behind the net after a wide shot, rounded the crease and made a nice spin move to deposit the tying goal. Just 1:27 later, Sufrin struck for the first time, firing through a screen that kept Washington sophomore goalie Gordon Cohen from seeing the ball until it was by him.

Washington evened it up again with 11:26 to go before halftime on an unassisted strike by Hidell. Less than four minutes later, Sufrin gave Gettysburg the lead for good on a long run from the left side.

Cohen made a big save on Brody in the last five seconds of the second quarter that temporarily kept the Bullets from broadening the lead. When Dyer scored late in the third, he opened up a three-goal run in a 2:02 span that pushed the Gettysburg advantage to 6-2.

With just 13 seconds left in the quarter, junior midfielder Kolyn Kirby tacked on a man-up goal from just outside the crease that ended the Bullets' run. That would be all the closer the visitors would get though, as Gettysburg tacked on three goals in a five-minute stretch of the fourth quarter.

The Bullets will be back in action on Wednesday when they welcome McDaniel to Shirk Field at Musselman Stadium. The opening faceoff is scheduled for 4 p.m.