Box Score

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Swarthmore scored a pair of late goals to hand the 15th-ranked Gettysburg College men's lacrosse team a 10-8 setback in Centennial Conference action Saturday afternoon at Shirk Field at Musseslman Stadium.
 
The nip-and-tuck affair featured five ties, the last coming on Gettysburg sophomore Jack Harvey's (New Providence, N.J./New Providence) final goal with 4:54 left. But Nathaniel Johns scored what held up as the game-winner with 3:22 left for Swarthmore before Austin Chang added an insurance tally with 1:08 to go.
 
Harvey led the Bullets (6-5, 2-2 CC), tying a career-high with four goals and adding two assists for a career-high six points. Sophomore Will DeMartin (Summit, N.J./Saint Peter's Prep) added two goals and two assists while junior goalie Tim Brady (Charlotte, N.C./Providence) made eight saves. 
 
Freshman defenseman Mitch Wykoff (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Ludlowe) contributed with five ground balls and two caused turnovers for Gettysburg while junior defenseman Cullen Minion (Garden City, N.Y./Garden City) picked up four ground balls. Freshman Connor Hunt (Duxbury, Mass./Duxbury) went 7-for-11 on face-offs.
 
Chang scored six goals to lead the Garnet, who earned their first victory over the Bullets since 1985 and ended a 24-game losing streak to the Orange and Blue. Cole Fox made 13 saves for Swarthmore.
 
Harvey put the Bullets on the scoreboard just under two minutes into the game before Johns tied it two minutes later during a stall warning. Harvey struck again with 10:09 showing, and neither team would score again over the rest of the quarter as Gettysburg led 2-1 after 15 minutes of play.
 
Chang scored a man-up goal to pull the Garnet even with 11:17 left in the half before DeMartin put the Bullets back on top with 9:22 remaining. But Dylan Rittenhouse answered for Swarthmore with the final tally of the period, making it a 3-3 game at the intermission.
 
Harvey and DeMartin opened the second half with back-to-back tallies to hand Gettysburg a 5-3 advantage, but Chang struck twice over the final 4:46 of the quarter, including another during a stall warning, to tie the game at 5-5 heading into the final period.
 
Chang made it three in a row when he converted with 13:08 on the clock to put Swarthmore on top. Sophomore Blake Gray (Reisterstown, Md./McDonogh School) tied the game for the fourth time when he scored for the Bullets with 12:18 to go, but Chang would answer, scoring his team's fourth goal in a row with 11:22 left. Jake Ross put the Garnet up 8-6 with a tally at the 8:54 mark.
 
Senior Sean Fumai (Weston, Conn./Weston) answered with a man-up goal for the Bullets before Harvey's final tally, setting up Swarthmore's big finish.
 
Gettysburg outshot the Garnet 35-28 and held a 23-20 edge in ground balls.
 
The Bullets return home on Wednesday, when they take on sixth-ranked Dickinson in another Centennial Conference tilt at 3:30 p.m.