THE FACTS
No. 8 Gettysburg (11-3, 6-0 CC) 14, No. 10 Franklin & Marshall (10-4, 5-1 CC) 5
What: Centennial Conference (CC) women's lacrosse game
When: Wednesday, Apr. 19
Where: Gettysburg, Pa.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg, ranked eighth in the latest IWLCA Div. III coaches' poll, had three different 4-0 runs to power past No. 10 Franklin & Marshall 14-5 in a battle of the only two remaining undefeated conference teams.
THE LEADERS
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Julia Daly (McLean, Va./Langley) led the Bullets with four goals on five shots. She also had three ground balls and a caused turnover.
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Gillian Cortese (Mount Laurel, N.J./Lenape) backstopped the defense with eight saves.
FOR THE FOES
• Maddy Birch and Lane Lambeth each had two goals to lead the Diplomats.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• Franklin & Marshall got the opening goal of the game when Lydia Cassilly took advantage of a player advantage and found the back of the net with 10:42 to play in the opening period.
Gabi Connor (Haddonfield, N.J./Haddonfield Memorial) found the equalizer nearly six minutes later to start a four-goal run that started Gettysburg's run to seize control of the game.
Julia Daly then went back-to-back 2 minutes, 8 seconds apart for a 3-1 lead and Connor got her second of the night off a
Katie Fullowan (Lebanon, N.J./North Hunterdon) pass in the final 30 seconds of the first quarter. Lane Lambeth made it 4-2 after one quarter, slipping a goal in with six ticks remaining.
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Jordan Basso (Rye, N.Y./Rye) goals keyed a 4-0 second quarter. Fullowan made it 5-2 just 56 seconds into the second quarter before Basso found the back of the net for the first time with 8:08 showing.
Caroline Sullivan (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Ludlowe) scored just over two minutes later and Basso made it a six-goal lead with 1:46 to play before the half.
• The Diplomats once again opened a quarter with a goal when Lambeth scored with 9:34 showing on the third-quarter clock. Fullowan and Maddy Birch traded markers over the final 2:20 of the period.
• The Bullets, however, put together its third 4-0 run of the game to start the fourth. After
Julie Breedveld (Wayne, Pa./Radnor) finished a Basso feed, Daly, Fullowan and Basso all finished off their hat tricks. Birch tallied her second of the night with 5:18 to play before completed her fourth four-goal game in the last five outings.
THE INSIDE STORY
• The five goals is the fewest allowed by Gettysburg to Franklin & Marshall in the series since a 6-5 win in the 2016 CC championship game. The nine-goal margin is the largest margin of victory by either team in the regular-season meeting since the Bullets won by a 15-4 margin on Apr. 18, 2012 in Gettysburg.
• Jodan Basso, the reigning CC and IWLCA Offensive Players of the Week, finished with three goals and two assists while
Katie Fullowan had three goals and one assist. Basso added a pair of caused turnovers.
• Gettysburg finishing with a commanding 33-19 advantage in shots.
• The Bullets officially clinched a spot in the six-team CC tournament and already hold the tiebreaker with the only two one-loss teams.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action at home against Ursinus on Saturday. Game time is 1 p.m.
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