Box Score

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Sixteenth-ranked Swarthmore College scored a pair of second-half goals to pull away for a 3-1 victory over the Gettysburg College women's soccer team in a Centennial Conference (CC) match Saturday afternoon at Clark Field.
 
Katie Dougherty scored two goals to lead Swarthmore (11-1, 4-1 CC) while Hannah Lichenstein handed out two assists for the Garnet. Syney Hunter made eight saves for the visitors.
 
Sophomore Kiera Loftus (Westfield, N.J./Westfield) made nine saves – one shy of her career-high – for Gettysburg (6-5, 2-2 CC), which was playing its second-straight nationally-ranked opponent. Freshman Isabel Klatt (Garden City, N.Y./Garden City) scored her first collegiate goal for the Bullets, and it was also just the fourth goal allowed by Swarthmore on the season.
 
Gettysburg and Swarthmore played to a 1-1 tie in the first half, scoring just 28 seconds apart. In the 31st minute, Dougherty buried a header off a Lichenstein corner kick from the right to put the Garnet up 1-0.
 
But the Bullets were quick to retaliate. Following the restart, sophomore Lauren Miesemer (Garden City, N.Y./Garden City) brought the ball up the right side of the field and dribbled into the box before sending a pass forward to Klatt, her former high school teammate. Klatt slotted a shot across the goalmouth and inside the left post, making it a 1-1 game.
 
Swarthmore outshot the Bullets 10-7 in the opening half, when both goalies turned aside five shots.
 
Dougherty scored what held up as the game-winning goal in the 57th minute, taking a chip from Lichenstein and scoring on a breakaway down the right flank. Mele Johnson added an insurance goal for the Garnet in the 84th minute, cutting back on her defending before delivering a shot from the top of the box.
 
Swarthmore outshot the Bullets 8-4 in the half, when Loftus made another four saves. The Garnet finished with advantages in shots (18-11) and corners (6-0).
 
Gettysburg returns to Centennial Conference action on Thursday, when it hosts Dickinson College at 7 p.m.