Box Score GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The Gettysburg College women's soccer team played Ursinus College to a scoreless draw through regulation and a pair of overtime periods, but the Bears won a penalty-kick shootout 3-1 to advance past the first round of the Centennial Conference (CC) Tournament Wednesday evening at Clark Field.
Ursinus (12-5-1), the No. 5 seed in the tournament, now advances to the conference semifinals to face top-seeded and 12th-ranked Swarthmore College on Saturday. Gettysburg drops to 10-2-6 and will hope for a possible at-large berth in the NCAA Division III Tournament.
The shutout was Gettysburg's 13th of the season, which ties the school record that has also been set in each of the past two seasons.
Senior
Eliza Gray (South Orange, N.J./Columbia) collected four saves while pushing her school record for single-season shutouts to 12.
Courtney Sullivan made nine saves for Ursinus, then turned aside all three penalty kicks that she faced.
Gettysburg held lopsided advantages in shots (19-5) and corner kicks (7-4) and nearly scored twice in the first half. In the 26th minute, the Bullets were awarded a free kick just outside the box, and junior
Julia Ramsey (Wayne, Pa./Conestoga) sent a perfect pass to classmate
Hannah Theurer (Darnestown, Md./Northwest) from the left wing. But Theurer's shot from point-blank range sailed just high.
Later in the period, Gettysburg earned consecutive corner kicks. On the second attempt, sophomore
Haley Brazier (Reston, Va./Herndon) came up with a loose ball inside the box and blasted a shot at the goal, but it deflected off the crossbar.
Gray kept the Bears off the scoreboard with a spectacular save in the 44th minute, leaping high to make a fingertip save on a rip from Jeannie Jasinski.
Gettysburg outshot Ursinus 10-3 in the first half, when Sullivan made six of her saves.
The Bullets were unable to dent Sullivan in the second half, when they held a 5-1 shot advantage.
Gettysburg came painfully close to scoring again in the first overtime. Midway through the period, senior
Lauren Schapiro (Stamford, Conn./Stamford) stopped in transition and rifled a shot from 20 yards out but it smashed off the upper-left corner of the crossbar. The Bullets would outshoot the Bears 4-1 over the two overtime periods.
In the shootout, Gettysburg kicked first and sophomore
Aoife Schanche (Kinnelon, N.J./Kinnelon) buried her attempt into the upper-right corner. Katie Bell also converted for Ursinus, and Stephanie DeAngelo and Jeannie Jasinski were also true for the Bears, making it 3-1. Sullivan's third-straight diving stop clinched the win for Ursinus.
