THE FACTS
No. 9 Gettysburg (8-3, 3-0 CC) 21, Dickinson (7-2, 1-1 CC) 8
What: Centennial Conference (CC) women's lacrosse game
When: Wednesday, April 5
Where: Gettysburg, Pa.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg, ranked ninth in the latest IWLCA Division III poll, outscored Dickinson 7-1 in the third period to run away with a 21-8 win over the Red Devils in conference play.
THE LEADERS
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Caroline Sullivan (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield-Ludlowe) scored her 100th career point in the second quarter. She tallied three goals and three assists on the day, and picked up one ground ball.
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Julia Daly (McLean, Va./McLean) tied a career-high with four goals and added one assist for five points. She also picked up two ground balls.
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Jordan Basso (Rye, N.Y./Rye) and
Katie Fullowan (Lebanon, N.J./North Hunterdon) also scored four goals each.
FOR THE FOES
• Delaney Herbert tallied two goals and two assists for the Red Devils.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• In the first 34 seconds of the game,
Emily Crane (Upper Montclair, N.J./Montclair) passed to
Gabi Connor (Haddonfield, N.J./Haddonfield Memorial), who scored the first goal of the day for the Bullets. Dickinson won the following draw control, but
Kayla Lundberg (Medford, N.J./Shawnee) caused a turnover and scooped up the ground ball to give the Bullets possession again. Just under two minutes after scoring a goal, Connor then dished the ball to
Julia Daly for a 2-0 Gettysburg lead.
Caroline Sullivan and Connor scored a goal each in the next 90 seconds to make it 4-0. Dickinson scored their first of the day on a Faith Parker assist to Delaney Herbert, but back-to-back goals by Crane and
Katie Fullowan made it a five-goal deficit with 9:25 to play in the first. Dickinson took a timeout and managed to hold the Bullets off for the next four and a half minutes, before adding their own tally on an Emma Wynne goal, cutting the deficit to 6-2. However, Gettysburg responded less than a minute later with Fullowan's second of the game. With 38 seconds remaining in the first period, Crane scored her second of the day as the Bullets took an 8-2 lead going into the second.
• Dickinson scored the first two goals of the second quarter, within a 45 second span, to move themselves within four goals of the lead. Back-and-forth play by both teams over the next five minutes saw each team turn the ball over several times, with neither able to find the net.
Jordan Basso broke up the deadlock with 8:16 on the clock to take a 9-4 lead, and the teams went back to work for the next three and a half. Emma Wynne scored her second goal of the game at exactly the same time she did in the first period, with 4:59 showing, to bring the Red Devils back within four goals. However, in the next two minutes
Caroline Sullivan assisted a
Kelly O'Connor (Livingston, N.J./Livingston) goal and scored one of her own to carve out an 11-5 lead. The Red Devils earned the final goal of the period as Delaney Herbert dished to Faith Parker, sending the teams into halftime with a five-goal Bullets lead.
• Daly and Fullowan each scored two to open up the second half, and O'Connor notched her second of the day to start the running clock. With the seconds ticking off, Basso and Sullivan each scored a goal around two off-target Dickinson shots. Liv Yeagle scored the Red Devils' first goal of the second half with only four seconds remaining in the quarter as Gettyburg led, 18-7, going into the final 15 minutes.
• Basso netted her third of the day at the beginning of the fourth period, and Daly converted on a free position attempt three minutes later for the Bullets' 20th goal of the day. Yeagle responded shortly after with the Red Devils' final goal of the game, and several turnovers by each team finally yielded the last goal of the day, a Basso man-up tally with 6:19 left. Both teams took shots in the final five minutes of play, but none found the net as the seconds ticked off and Gettysburg took the 21-8 win.
THE INSIDE STORY
• Gettysburg outshot Dickinson 43-19, but held a narrower advantage in draws, 18-14.
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Gillian Cortese (Mount Laurel, N.J./Lenape) and
Juliette deVarenne (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) split time in goal. deVarenne made four saves, while Cortese had two.
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Gabi Connor,
Kelly O'Connor, and
Emily Crane each scored two goals. Crane also added two assists.
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Nora Belodeau (New Canaan, Conn./New Canaan) and
Lily Macatee (Street, Md./North Harford) paced the defense with two ground balls and three caused turnovers. Macatee also added a career-high 10 draw controls.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action against Bryn Mawr on Saturday. Game time is 12 p.m.
