Box Score LANCASTER, Pa. – Junior
Lauren Schapiro (Stamford, Conn./Stamford) scored in the 34th minute to lift the Gettysburg College women's soccer team to its eighth-straight win, a 1-0 Centennial Conference (CC) victory at Franklin & Marshall College Tuesday evening.
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Schapiro accepted a feed from freshman
Maddie Heaney (Allendale, N.J./Northern Highlands Regional) and blasted in her fourth goal of the season as Gettysburg (12-3-1, 8-0-1 CC) clinched a first-round bye in the upcoming Centennial Conference tournament.
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The Bullets, who reached the 12-win mark for the fifth year in a row, are now on their longest winning streak since the 2004 team also won eight straight.
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Gettysburg outshot the Diplomats 12-6 and posted a posted a shutout for the seventh time in eight matches. Junior
Eliza Gray (South Orange, N.J./Columbia) made one saveb en route to her ninth shutout of the season and the 25th of her career, which moves her into sole possession of second in school history.
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Shannon Johnson-Finn made five saves for F&M (1-14-1, 0-8-1 CC).
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The Bullets controlled the game statistically in the first half, posting advantages in shots (8-3) and corner kicks (9-0). But Johnson-Finn made three saves for the Diplomats and it was a 1-0 game at the intermission.
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Senior defender
Mary Kamovitch (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Ludlowe) turned in a big play in the 60th minute to keep the Diplomats off the scoreboard. Following an F&M corner kick, Kamovitch cleared away a header that appeared to be heading inside the right post. Franklin & Marshall took its final shot in the 73rd minute but it was saved by Gray.
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The Bullets play their regular-season finale on Saturday at 1 p.m., when they visit Centennial Conference leader and sixth-ranked Johns Hopkins University (9-0 CC) in a match that will decide the top seed and the right to host the upcoming conference tournament.
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