THE FACTS
Gettysburg (10-7) 13, No. 4 Swarthmore (14-2) 12
What: Centennial Conference (CC) men's lacrosse semifinal
When: Thursday, May 2
Where: Swarthmore, Pa.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg jumped out to a 4-0 lead and then withstood a late flurry form fourth-ranked Swarthmore to notch a 13-12 win in one of the two Centennial Conference semifinals and advance to Saturday's championship game.
THE LEADERS
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Quinton Mather (Avon, Conn./Avon Old Farms) led the Bullets with three goals and an assist.
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Chase Morgan (Canandaigua, N.Y./Canandaigua) made 15 saves on the night, including one in the final 10 seconds to keep the one-goal lead.
FOR THE FOES
• Michael Hardiman led the Garnet with four goals.
THE REST OF THE STORY
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Quinton Mather staked Gettysburg to an early 1-0 lead, finding the back of the net just 1:37 into the contest. Mather then found
Charlie Johnson (Wilton, Conn./Wilton) 47 seconds later to double the lead. A
Jack Dunleavy (New Providence, N.J./Seton Hall Prep) tally stretched the lead to 3-0 at the 8:27 mark before
Michael Voehringer (West Chester, Pa./Malvern Prep) won the ensuing faceoff and went right to goal to expand the lead to four just five seconds later. Michael Hardiman broke up the shutout with 7:18 remaining before
Ryan Cernuto (Martinsburg, N.J./Bridgewater-Raritan) pushed the lead back to five with 25 seconds to play in the opening quarter.
• Clay Almgren painted the corner to make it a 5-2 game less than a minute into the second quarter. In transition off a procedure call,
Frank Barbera (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) snagged a ball and midfield then ripped a pole goal from 20 yards out for his first tally of the season and pushed the lead back to four with 12:57 showing in the second quarter. A Carter Strauch man-up goal and Von Mabbs solo run just over three minutes apart made it a 6-4 game with 5:20 to play. Strauch found Nolan Ohrman with 29 seconds left in the quarter to make it a one-goal game at the break.
• With 8:35 to play in the third quarter, Johnson picked a pass out of the air and scored to push the lead back to two.
Stokes Myers (Nashville, Tenn./Montgomery Bell Academy) then found the back of the net with 5:19 showing before the Bullets won the ensuing faceoff and once again finished six seconds later with
Jackson Hearn (Houston, Texas/Episcopal Academy) putting home a Dunleavy pass for a 9-5 lead. Michael Hardiman then scored twice in a 50-second stretch to close the deficit to two with 64 seconds remaining.
• Mather found the back of the net for the second time with 12:27 to play in the final period, pushing the edge back to three. The senior then made it back-to-back tallies and completed his hat trick with 11:00 on the clock to force a Swarthmore timeout. Myers finished an
Ethan Kessler (Ridgefield, Conn./Millbrook School) pass to open up a 12-7 lead with 5:07 remaining. Ryder Maston started a three-goal Garnet flurry in a 2-minute, 5-second to close the margin to 12-10.
Will Hedley (Charlotte, N.C./The Hotchkiss School) fired on an empty net to push the lead back to three with 1:18 to play. Jackson Brosgoi and Mabbs then scored within 20 seconds of each other to cut the deficit to one. Swarthmore won the final faceoff but the Gettysburg defense stood strong for the win.
THE INSIDE STORY
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Stokes Myers and
Charlie Johnson had two goals each. Johnson also had five ground balls.
• Swarthmore outshot Gettysburg 45-35 on the day while the Bullets had a 34-31 edge in ground balls.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg travels to Dickinson for the championship game on Saturday. Game time is 1 p.m.
