Box Score
CHESTERTOWN, Md. – Behind yet another stellar defensive performance, the seventh-ranked Gettysburg College men's lacrosse team completed its second-straight undefeated Centennial Conference (CC) regular season with a 10-3 victory at Washington College on Saturday.
The Bullets (11-2, 8-0 CC) won going away, ending on a 5-0 run to pick up their 10th-consecutive victory. Gettysburg will enter the conference playoffs as the top seed and will host fourth-seeded Swarthmore College on Wednesday at a time to be announced.
Senior defenseman
Geoff Davis (Jefferson, Md./McDonogh School) piled up eight ground balls and four caused turnovers to lead the Gettysburg defense, which entered the game ranked fifth in Division III with a 5.85 goals-against average. Senior defenseman
Bill McAvoy (Villanova, Pa./Episcopal Academy) added six grounds and three caused turnovers while classmate
Jake Adoni (Fort Washington, Pa./Germantown Academy) made 11 saves, including eight in the second half that saw the Bullets outscore the Shoremen 5-1.
Senior
Paul Werner (Westfield, N.J./Seton Hall Prep) scored two goals and handed out two assists for the Bullets while classmate
Jameson Smith (Glen Ridge, N.J./Glen Ridge) added two goals and one assist. Freshmen
Blake Gray (Reisterstown, Md./McDonogh School) and
Andrew Garstka (Springfield, Va./Paul VI Catholic) scored two goals apiece.
Ben Flood made 17 saves for the Shoremen (7-8, 3-5 CC) while Tyler Powers scored a pair of goals.
Washington's three goals tied the team's lowest scoring output ever against Gettysburg, which defeated the Shoremen 7-3 in 1998 and 9-3 in 2007.
It was a low-scoring affair in the early going, with the scoreboard reading 1-1 at the end of the first quarter. Powers scored two minutes in for Washington before Garstka pulled Gettysburg even with 2:51 on the clock.
The Shoremen went back in front after a Peter Jacobs goal with 12:31 showing, but the Bullets would end the half on a 4-0 run to assume a 5-2 lead at the break. Smith kicked off the spurt with back-to-back tallies just over a minute apart, Werner cashed in with 6:29 on the clock, and Gray struck with eight ticks showing.
Defense controlled much of the third quarter, with neither side scoring over the opening 11:32. Power snapped the drought with 3:28 left in the stanza to make it a 5-3 game, but that's when the Bullets responded with their decisive run, starting with a goal from freshman
Tommy Heller (Livingston, N.J./Livingston) with 31 seconds left in the third quarter.
It remained a 6-3 game until the 8:04 mark, when Gray scored again. The Bullets settled any doubt with goals from Werner, sophomore
Justin McBride (Laurel Hollow, N.Y./Cold Spring Harbor), and Garstka in the final six minutes.
Gettysburg outshot Washington 36-29 and committed a season-low-tying nine turnovers.
