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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Senior Laura Bergin (Charlottesville, Va./Western Albemarle) slammed down her match-high 16th kill to finally bring an end to the match against Shenandoah University and hand Gettysburg College a 3-2 victory Wednesday night inside Bream Gym.
 
The match, originally scheduled for a 7 p.m. start, was delayed over an hour due to bus troubles for Shenandoah (9-11). Gettysburg (10-5) jumped out to a hot start by winning the first two sets 25-12 and 26-24. The Hornets took the next two by identical scores of 25-23, but the Bullets polished off the win with a 15-8 decision in set five.
 
Shenandoah was sluggish out of the gate, committing 15 hitting errors in the opening frame as Gettysburg led by as many as 14. The Bullets held the advantage for most of the second set until a late surge gave the visitors a 24-23 lead. Back-to-back kills by freshmen Sierra Conboy (Ventura, Calif./Ventura) and Francesca Garison (Metuchen, N.J./John F. Kennedy Memorial) put the hosts back in front and an attack error by the Hornets finished the frame and gave Gettysburg a 2-0 lead.
 
Despite a 7-1 start to the third set, the hosts fell behind after a 6-0 run made it 20-17 in favor of Shenandoah. The Bullets closed to 24-23 before Caylin Harris put her team in the win column with a kill.
 
Shenandoah maintained the momentum in the fourth set and jumped ahead 17-13 on a kill by Elizabeth Lamont. The Bullets came back to tie the match four times before the Hornets closed out the two-point win.
 
The fifth and decisive fifth contest was all Gettysburg. Three errors by the visitors gave the hosts the opening lead which they never relinquished. Bergin put the match to bed by emphatically slamming down a kill down the left sideline.
 
Bergin added a dozen digs to her kill total. She is now just four kills shy of becoming the 12th Bullet to reach 1,000 in a career and first to do so in the last nine years.
 
Garison posted 14 kills, while junior Maddie Weikert (Gettysburg, Pa./Gettysburg) picked up her first double-double of the season with 11 kills and 12 digs. Conboy had a hand in seven of Gettysburg's 10 team blocks.
 
Junior setter Stephanie Blair (Chester, N.J./West Morris Mendham) dished out a season-high 45 assists and totaled 14 digs. Junior Katherine Gilbert (Baltimore, Md./Notre Dame Prep) paced the team with 18 digs, while freshman Caroline Sequeira (Millington, N.J./Watchung Hills) tallied 10 digs.
 
Lamont and Harris combined for 28 kills and 37 digs for Shenandoah. Rachel Cerretani tallied 29 assists and 11 digs.
 
Gettysburg plays a pair of non-conference foes as part of the Lycoming College Invitational this Friday. The Bullets face Wilkes University at 4 p.m. followed by Alfred State University at 6.