THE FACTS
No. 9 Gettysburg (10-2, 3-1 CC) 15, Franklin & Marshall (5-6, 1-3 CC) 7
What: Centennial Conference (CC) men's lacrosse game
When: Wednesday, Apr. 12
Where: Lancaster, Pa.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg, ranked ninth in the latest USILA Division III coaches' poll, scored the first nine goals of the game and never looked back for a 15-7 win over Franklin & Marshall.
THE LEADERS
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Zack Kinsella (Annapolis, Md./Severn School) scored twice, netting his first two goals of the season for the Bullets. He also added two caused turnovers and four ground balls.
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Quinton Mather (Avon, Conn./Avon Old Farms) recorded his second hat trick of the year with three goals.
FOR THE FOES
• Cullen Decker led the Diplomats with three goals and three assists.
THE REST OF THE STORY
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Michael Zima (Basking Ridge, N.J./Ridge) hit
Zack Kinsella in transition for the first goal of the game at the midway point of the first quarter, which sparked a 5-0 finish to the opening stanza.
Jack Dunleavy (New Providence, R.I./Seton Hall Prep) found a
Ethan Kessler (Ridgefield, Conn./Millbrook School) just 38 seconds later.
Kyle Howard (Skillman, N.J./Montgomery) ripped a wide-open shot for a 3-0 lead with 2:24 on the clock before he found
George Raymond (Darien, Conn./Suffield Academy) with 11 ticks remaining.
Jonathan Moshe (Port Jefferson, N.Y./Earl L. Vandermeulen) scored directly off the ensuing faceoff to push the lead to five after one quarter.
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Ryan Cernuto (Martinsville, N.J./Bridgewater-Raritan) finished a pass from Kessler in the opening 1:44 of the second quarter before Howard found Dunleavy and Kinsella in a 1-minute, 44-second span to make it 8-0 with 6:03 to play.
Quinton Mather made it eight different goal scorers and a 9-0 lead, finishing from
Stokes Myers (Nashville, Tenn./Montgomery Bell Academy) with 4:56 on the clock. Christian Sullivan converted a man-up opportunity to break up the shutout with 3:56 remaining before Cullen Decker scored twice in the final 2:40 of the half to close the margin to 9-3 at the break.
• After Tommy Garofalo scored with 13:19 showing, Mather and
Aidan Wykoff (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Ludlowe) stretched the lead back to seven in the opening 6:23 of the third quarter before the Diplomats got both goals back to make it a five-goal deficit heading to the final quarter.
• Raymond found Howard, who zipped home a shot with 11:49 to play before Mather bounced one home just 28 seconds later. Raymond finished a solo run with 9:54 on the clock and Myers did the same 2:20 later to stretch the lead back to nine. Decker set the final margin with 4:14 to play.
THE INSIDE STORY
• Gettysburg won in Lancaster for the first time since 2015.
• The Bullets finished with a 41-29 advantage in shots and 38-26 advantage in ground balls.
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Jonathan Moshe won 14 of the 26 faceoffs in the game. He added eight ground balls.
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Declan Harrigan (Larchmont, N.Y./Mamaroneck) also had two caused turnovers and four ground balls.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action at No. 19 Muhlenberg on Saturday. Game time is 7 p.m.
