Box Score

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Senior Kerry McKenna (Sharon, Conn./Kent School) scored the first goal and assisted on the second to push the Gettysburg College women's soccer team past visiting Franklin & Marshall College 2-0 in a Centennial Conference match at Clark Field on Tuesday night.

Gettysburg (5-3, 2-1 CC) had little trouble picking up its second conference victory of the season, handing Franklin & Marshall (2-8, 0-3 CC) its seventh-consecutive loss in the process. The Bullets held an 18-2 shot advantage in the contest and took three of the match's four corner kicks.

Each team traded shots early in the contest as an attempt by sophomore Sam Hellerman (Smithtown, N.Y./Smithtown West) was turned away by Katie Golding and a shot by Meaghan Mancini was stopped by Gettysburg sophomore goalie Allie Rivera (Wading River, N.Y./Shoreham Wading River). That would be the final time Rivera was tested in the match as the Bullets pressed their offensive attack.

Not long after the first shot exchange, the hosts made a move to the goal with senior Tara Gaston (Newtown, Conn./Newtown) firing a shot from point-blank range. Golding made a diving save to her left to stop the attempt, but McKenna stayed with the play and was right there for the putback into the upper right corner of the goal for the match's first score at 3:46. It was her team-best third goal of the fall, while Gaston tallied her first assist of the year.

McKenna factored into Gettysburg's next score as well, passing the ball forward to sophomore Sara Montague (Newark, Del./St. Mark's) who looped the ball over the out-stretched arms of Golding for her second goal of the fall at 20:45.

Gettysburg tried to tack onto the lead several more times in the opening stanza and in the second half, but Golding held firm each time on her way to a match-high 10 saves. She made a pair of saves about two minutes apart late in the final period on shots by Gaston and freshman Casey Attanasio (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North). Junior Jordann Smak (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Mechanicsburg) narrowly missed turning in her first goal of the year, but her shot from the right side of the box hit the far left post in the 79th minute.

Gaston and Hellerman led the way for Gettysburg with five shots a piece, while Attanasio, Montague, and Smak each posted two.

The Bullets return to the field this Saturday, Oct. 3, with a road trip to Ursinus College. Game time is 1 p.m. in Collegeville, Pa.