Box Score

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Sophomore Krissy Bradley (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Ludlowe) headed home a cross from senior Lauren Schapiro (Stamford, Conn./Stamford) in the 107th minute and the Gettysburg College women's soccer team nailed down the No. 4 seed in the Centennial Conference playoffs with a 2-1 victory over conference rival Johns Hopkins University on Senior Night Saturday evening.
 
The Bullets (10-2-5, 7-2-1 CC) will play a postseason game at home for the second year in a row when they host fifth-seeded Ursinus College on Wednesday at a time to be announced in the Centennial Conference first-round match. Last year, Gettysburg hosted the semifinals and final after finishing as the No. 1 seed.
 
Johns Hopkins (12-4-1, 8-2 CC) is the No. 2 seed in the conference playoffs and will take on third-seeded McDaniel College in the semifinals on Saturday at a top-ranked and tournament host Swarthmore College.
 
Schapiro also scored the team's first goal – her fourth tally over the Gettysburg's last six games.
 
The Blue Jays outshot the Bullets 12-7, but senior Eliza Gray (South Orange, N.J./Columbia) made five saves, including a crucial stop in the closing seconds of the first overtime. Clara Aranguren stopped three shots for Hopkins.
 
The start of the match was delayed 20 minutes after a brief power outage left Clark Field covered in darkness during pregame warmups.
 
Gettysburg's four seniors – Cailin DiGiacomo (Lafayette Hill, Pa./Germantown Academy), Gray, Schapiro, and Melissa Seidner (Hamilton, N.J./Peddie School) – were recognized in a ceremony prior to the game.
 
The Bullets won the match despite being held without a corner kick.
 
With the team's sixth tie of the season looming, Schapiro delivered a cross from the left corner and it deflected off a defender, onto the ground, and into the air. But Bradley was there to knock in the loose ball from the right post for her first collegiate goal.
 
The two sides traded penalty kicks in regulation. Schapiro was fouled inside the box on a breakaway in the 15th minute before drilling in her first career PK. Gray helped the lead stand up when she went low to smother a well-struck ball by Meg Van de loo on a free kick in the 25th minute.
 
The Blue Jays held a 7-4 shot advantage in the opening half, when Gray made four of her stops.
 
Gray carried her shutout into the 87th minute, when Issy Berkey converted a PK of her own Aranguren made a leaping save on a shot from freshman Lauren Miesemer (Garden City, N.Y./Garden City) in the final seconds to send the match to overtime.
 
It was Gray's turn to make a spectacular save at the end of a period when she leaped to haul in a blast from Kristen Hori with less than 20 seconds remaining.
 
Johns Hopkins took a shot early in the second overtime before Bradley's game-winner. Her header was Gettysburg's lone shot in either extra session.