Box Score

WESTMINSTER, Md. – Senior Kyle Franks (Medford, N.J./Shawnee) scored on a penalty kick in the 85th minute and the Bullets fired off a pair of potential game-tying shots down the stretch, but host McDaniel College held on for a 2-1 Centennial Conference (CC) men's soccer victory in Gettysburg's season finale on Saturday.
 
Under first-year head coach Mark Mettrick, the Bullets close out the year with a record of 9-7-1 (2-6-1 CC). Despite missing three starters for the second half of the season, the Orange and Blue posted their highest victory total since 2008.
 
Gettysburg outshot McDaniel 13-9 but Nick Over made six saves for the Green Terror (8-8-1, 2-6-1 CC).
 
Neither side scored in the opening half, when McDaniel held a 5-4 edge in shots. However, freshman Max Karen (Huntington, N.Y./Elwood-John Glenn) made all three of his saves in the opening period for the Bullets.
 
Gettysburg outshot McDaniel 9-4 in the second half, but Sean Foley put the hosts up 1-0 when he scored off an assist from Shane McCracken in the 47th minute. McCracken doubled his team's lead in the 63rd minute, finishing off a Raul Escobar feed. In the meantime, Over made four of his saves in the second period.
 
After Franks' goal – his third of the season and the second over the final three matches of his career – sophomore Henry Smith (Westfield, N.J./Westfield) missed high on a shot in the 87th minute before freshman Lucas Weissman's (Short Hills, N.J./Milburn) blast in the 89th also sailed high.
 
Franks led the Bullets with four shots for the match while Smith, Weissman, and freshman David Murphy (Yarmouth, Maine/Yarmouth) attempted two apiece.