Box Score

WESTMINSTER, Md. – Gettysburg was 14 seconds from ending its season with a tie, but Adam Sommers scored a late goal to give host McDaniel College a 2-1 victory over the Bullets in a Centennial Conference men's soccer match Saturday afternoon.

With the loss, Gettysburg closes out the season with a record of 8-7-2, the program's 18th straight winning season. The Bullets finished 4-5 in Centennial Conference play, good for a seventh-place finish in the standings.

With darkness setting in and the scoreboard reading 1-1, the Green Terror had a throw-in, and the ball found its way to the top of the box, where Sommers ripped it into the upper left for the game-winner.

The Green Terror (8-8-1, 4-4-1 CC), which finished sixth in the conference, took a 1-0 lead in the 12th minute when Paul Seegren scored off a Timothy Wineke assist. But the Bullets pulled even when senior defender Drew Erickson (Overland Park, Kan./Friends Central School [Pa.]) drilled in his second penalty-kick goal in as many games in the 36th minute. It was also the second goal of Erickson's career.

The Bullets finished with a 10-8 shot advantage in the first half before McDaniel gained some momentum in the second stanza, when it outshot 'Burg 11-6. But after making five saves in the first half, freshman goalie Michael Nemeth (Flourtown, Pa./Germantown Academy), making his first collegiate start, swatted aside four more shots to help send his team to overtime.

Neither team was able to generate much offense in the first 15-minute bonus session, with each side taking one shot. In the second overtime, the Green Terror outshot the Bullets 5-2, and Nemeth made two saves before Sommers' goal.

Nemeth finished with 11 saves, tying classmate Mike Walmer's (Hershey, Pa./Hershey) effort in a 1-0 win over Shippensburg University.

The loss marked Gettysburg's first double-overtime defeat since a 1-0 setback at Muhlenberg College on Oct. 21, 2006. The Bullets had played to a tie in their last nine double-OT affairs.