THE FACTS
No. 9 Gettysburg (7-3) 15, York (Pa.) (3-7) 10
What: Non-conference men's lacrosse game
When: Wednesday, April 3
Where: Gettysburg, Pa.
THE SKINNY STORY
A big 5-0 second quarter lifted Gettysburg to a 15-10 victory over York (Pa.) in the Bullets' last non-conference game of the regular season.
THE LEADERS
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Quinton Mather (Avon, Conn./Avon Old Farms) tied a career-best with five goals and set a new career-high mark in points with seven. Mather scored his five goals on just seven shots and added two assists.
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Jackson Hearn (Houston, Texas/Episcopal Bellaire) set career highs in points (six), assists (four), and tied a career-best in goals with two.
Ethan Kessler (Ridgefield, Conn./Millbrook School) had a hat trick for the Bullets, including two goals inside the game's last three minutes of play.
FOR THE FOES
• Will Harnick finished with three goals for the Spartans.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• Gettysburg scored the first two goals of the game within a three-minute stretch. After goalie
Chase Morgan (Canandaigua, N.Y./Canandaigua) launched a pass on the clear, Hearn grabbed hold of it and converted. An unassisted tally by
Jack Dunleavy (New Providence, N.J./Seton Hall Prep) then made it 2-0. Jackson Shields got the Spartans on the board, but Dunleavy then got the ball to
Charlie Johnson (Wilton, Conn./Wilton) for a goal just over a minute later. Vinny Facciponti won the following faceoff and went straight to the rack, and David Fisher fielded a pass into the cage to make it a 3-all game at the end of the first quarter.
• Almost half of the second-quarter clock elapsed before Kessler scored his first of the day to make it a 4-3 Gettysburg lead. His goal kicked off a 5-0 run that would last until the final 90 seconds of the half. Hearn got a pass to Mather, who converted for his first of the game to give the Bullets a 5-3 lead, and Mather then got the assist on a man-up goal by
Patrick Maroney (Hingham, Mass./Boston College H.S.). Mather rocketed in an unassisted goal with 3:50 remaining, and Hearn passed to Maroney for the Bullets' final goal of the quarter. The hosts led 8-3 going into the break.
• Mather picked up where he left off in the first half, opening up the third quarter with a goal just 57 seconds in. Hearn then assisted another goal with a pass to Dunleavy to make it a seven-goal game. York scored their first goal since the first quarter from Garrett Keogh to close within six goals, which turned into a 3-0 run to make it a 10-6 deficit. With 2:22 in the third quarter, the Bullets put together their own 3-0 run, with Mather scoring two and assisting Hearn on the third, for a 13-6 lead going into the final 15 minutes.
• York scored two back-to-back in a 45 second span to close within five goals, and another goal with 5:51 left made it a four-goal game once again. The Spartans couldn't complete the comeback, however, as Kessler lobbed two into the net and Davis Fisher scored just one more in the final five seconds for the 15-10 final.
THE INSIDE STORY
• York outshot Gettysburg 36-34.
• Facciponti took 26 faceoffs for York, winning 21. The Spartan faceoff unit held Gettysburg to just five of 29 wins.
• Dunleavy finished with four points on two goals and two assists.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action at No. 16 Swarthmore on Saturday. Game time is 12 p.m.
