GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Sophomore Kerry McKeever (Stony Brook, N.Y./Ward Melville) turned in a season-high five goals, two assists, and five draw controls and junior Liza Barr (Medford, N.J./Shawnee) added three goals and four assists to lead top-ranked Gettysburg College past Swarthmore College 20-10 in Centennial Conference women's lacrosse action at Clark Field on Saturday.
 
Gettysburg (10-1, 3-1 CC), which dropped a 9-6 decision at Franklin & Marshall College on Wednesday, showed no signs of weariness in racing past Swarthmore (9-2, 2-2 CC). The Bullets dominated the draw circle with 21-of-32 while holding the Garnet to just 18 shot attempts.
 
The Bullets started with a 2-0 lead after Barr connected on a free position shot and McKeever collected a goal with 25:25 and 23:23 on the clock, respectively. Gettysburg never gave up its lead throughout the game, but Swarthmore threatened by coming within one on four different occasions in the first half. In roughly seven minutes, the Garnet registered four goals, cutting the Bullets advantage down to one (5-4) with under 16 minutes remaining in the first half.
 
From there, the Bullets out-scored the Garnet 7-2 with McKeever scoring three and Barr tallying two in the spurt to close the half with the 12-6 advantage.  
 
Junior Ella Orzechowski (Elkridge, Md./Howard) and sophomore Bri Stokes (Sudbury, Mass./Lincoln-sudbury Regional) helped the Bullets grab a 14-7 advantage early in the final period. Orzechowski scored the opening tally at 29:01 and Stokes followed up three minutes later with a goal of her own off a feed from Orzechowski. Orzechowski would post her final goal of the day off a dish from Barr with 18:15 remaining.
 
Seven Gettysburg players in total scored in the second half with freshman Cecily Stabler (Summit, N.J./Summit) scoring the final goal off a pass from freshman Caroline Keenaghan (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Yorktown) with 58 seconds to go.
 
Junior Courtney Patterson (Whitehouse Station, N.J./Hunterdon Central) led the team with seven draw controls while junior Claire Macatee (Street, Md./North Harford) gathered five. Freshman Nora Janzer (Havertown, Pa./Haverford) caused three turnovers and picked up three ground balls.
 
Barr finished with three goals and one assist with Orzechowski chipping in two goals and one assist. Senior Lauren Cole (Madison, Conn./Daniel Hand) and Patterson also notched two goals each.
 
Gettysburg travels to Haverford College next Saturday at 3 p.m.