GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Gettysburg held Johns Hopkins to just eight shots, but the 10th-ranked Blue Jays converted on half of their chances and topped the Bullets 4-1 in Centennial Conference (CC) women's soccer action at a chilly Clark Field Wednesday evening.
The Bullets (8-6-2, 5-4 CC) now find themselves in sixth place in the Centennial Conference standings heading into the final game of the season. With 15 points, Gettysburg trails Dickinson by one point for the fifth and final conference playoff spot. The Bullets and Red Devils will meet Saturday evening at 7 p.m. on Senior Night at Gettysburg.
Sophomore
Isabel Klatt (Garden City, N.Y./Garden City) scored for Gettysburg, which snapped Johns Hopkins' string of four straight shutouts. The Blue Jays (14-2-1, 9-0 CC) had allowed only seven goals entering the match, including just two in Centennial Conference play.
The Bullets finished with a 9-8 edge in shots while limiting Hopkins to over nine shots below their season average.
Sophomore
Brittany Smith (Dublin, Pa./Pennridge) made a pair of saves in her collegiate debut for Gettysburg while Bess Kitzmiller stopped four shots for the Blue Jays, who have clinched the No. 1 seed in the conference playoffs.
Michelle Santangelo scored two goals for Hopkins while Riley O'Toole finished with one goal and one assist.
The visitors struck first when Santangelo punched in a loose ball on a scramble in front of the net following a corner kick in the seventh minute. Then in the 17th minute, O'Toole wound up for a shot from outside the box and found the back of the net to make it 2-0. Each side took four shots in the opening half as Hopkins carried its two-goal lead into the intermission.
The Blue Jays extended their advantage to 3-0 less than two minutes into the second half. O'Toole crossed a ball to the top of the box for Santangelo, who smashed in her 14th goal of the year. But Gettysburg answered in the 52nd minute on Klatt's tally. Senior
Jessica Cuttone (Mahwah, N.J./Mahwah) broke free down the left sideline, then sent a long cross into the center of the box, where Klatt boomed in her team-leading fifth tally of the season.
Johns Hopkins would add an insurance goal, however, when Emily Maheras tipped in a shot off a corner kick in the 70th minute to set the final score.
