GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Freshman Grace Torrance (Lancaster, Pa./Manheim Township) struck for the game-winning goal with 10:32 left and the Gettysburg College field hockey team won its fourth-straight Centennial Conference (CC) game, topping Haverford 4-1 at a hot Shirk Field at Musselman Stadium on Saturday.
 
The Bullets (6-5, 4-1 CC) captured their first win over Haverford (6-6, 1-4 CC) since 2009, snapping an eight-game losing streak versus the Fords.
 
Gettysburg overcame a 12-4 shot deficit, thanks in large part to a seven-save performance from senior Haley Mowery (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Northern). She made six of her stops in the opening period, including four in the opening nine minutes when the Fords took the opening five shots of the game.
 
Junior Victoria Umbach (Bridgewater, N.J./Bridgewater-Raritan) reversed the momentum when she scored on Gettysburg's first shot of the game. Senior Lindsay Kraus (Bel Air, Md./John Carroll School) set up the tally with a well-struck back-handed hit from the top of the circle, and Umbach tipped it past the keeper for her first goal of the year.
 
Defense controlled the remainder of the half, with the two sides managing just three shots the rest of the way, and the Bullets took a 1-0 lead into the intermission.
 
Haverford pulled even 21:22 left in the game. Rylee Fennell sent in a hard-hit ball from the right side, and Lucy Tortolani swatted it out of the air and inside the left post. But Gettysburg would have the answer, as Torrance cashed in on her team's only shot in the second half. She helped herself by making a sharp penalty-corner pass to freshman Emma Bertrando (West Chester, Pa./Henderson), who returned the ball to Torrance at the left post. Torrance then back-handed a shot across the goal mouth and just inside the right post, scoring her second goal of the season that also gave Bertrando her first collegiate assist.
 
Haverford threatened the rest of the way and earned two penalty corners inside the last two minutes. But the Fords would manage just one shot, with their final attempt of the game hitting off the side of the cage.
 
Gettysburg returns to Centennial Conference action on Wednesday, when it visits 14th-ranked Franklin & Marshall at 7 p.m.