Box Score

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Junior Henry Smith (Westfield, N.J./Westfield) tied a school record with three assists, but the 19th-ranked Gettysburg College men's soccer team lost 4-3 to Haverford College in another exciting Centennial Conference (CC) match at a cold and wet Clark Field Saturday evening.
 
Coming off an overtime decision three nights earlier, the Bullets (7-2-1, 2-2 CC) trailed 4-1 in the 62nd minute but reeled off a pair of goals to cut the deficit to one with just over 18 minutes left. Gettysburg would take three potential game-tying shots inside the final 12 minutes but were unable to find the equalizer.


Smith became the seventh player in program history to dish out three assists and the first since David Pone '05 in a 3-2 win over Frostburg State University on Sept. 7, 2004. He now has a team- and Centennial Conference-leading 11 assists on the season, the most by a Bullet since Jason Vishio '00 handed out a school-record 18 helpers in 1999.
 
Sam Yarosh scored two goals for Haverford (7-3, 4-0 CC) which won its fifth match in a row.
 
The Fords never trailed after scoring the game's first two goals. Yarosh scored in the 12th minute, and less than three minutes later Michael Carr knocked in a shot that deflected off his own player to make it 2-0.
 
The Bullets were held without a shot for nearly the entire first half before catching a break with a corner kick in the final minute. Senior defender Mark Yearick (Maplewood, N.J./Columbia) made it count when he headed home Smith's feed from the right, making it a 2-1 game with 33 seconds on the clock. It was the first goal the Fords allowed since Sept. 16 after posting four straight shutouts.
 
Haverford held a 5-1 shot advantage in the first half before pushing their lead to 4-1 with a pair of goals in the early part of the second period. Brady Seitz headed in a free kick in the 52nd minute before Yarosh struck again, heading in a cross from the right to give the Fords their three-goal advantage.
 
Gettysburg's second and final corner of the match also yielded a goal, as senior Ryan Kennedy (Frederick, Md./McDonogh School) headed home Smith's offering from the left to make it a 4-2 match in the 63rd minute. Just over nine minutes later, sophomore Patrick Santini (Old Greenwich, Conn./Greenwich) pulled the Bullets to within one, taking a cross from Smith and banging home a shot inside the box with 18:14 still remaining.
 
Santini nearly tied the match with a spectacular shot in the 84th minute, when his blast from 40 yards out just missed the upper-90. Three minutes later he created another scoring opportunity when he stole the ball and fed it to junior KJ DePontes (Holmdel, N.J./Holmdel), who ripped a shot that sailed wide left.
 
Haverford finished with advantages in shots (14-8) and corners (5-2).
 
Junior Peter Como (Wilton, Conn./Wilton) made five saves for Gettysburg while Sam Miller stopped two shots for Haverford.
 
Gettysburg returns to action next Saturday, when it visits Swarthmore College at 1 p.m. in another Centennial Conference tilt.