Five straight goals propel Bullets into 10th championship
game
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Kyle McGrath and
Danno Lynch each scored three goals to lead No. 2
Gettysburg to a 10-6 victory over McDaniel in the 2010 Centennial
Conference (CC) semifinals on Friday.
The top-seeded Bullets (15-1) scored the first three goals of
the game before the Green Terror (7-8) pulled within 3-2 only to
see the hosts reel off five straight to take control of the
game.
DJ
Rickels (Forest Hill, Md./Boys Latin School of
Maryland) netted three of McDaniel's six goals to finish
the year with 42 tallies – the most by a Green Terror player
since 2002.
On just the second shot of the game for Gettysburg, Lynch found
the back of the net for a 1-0 lead 2:50 into the game.
Pat Satory stretched the lead to 2-0 with 5:34
left in the first quarter before McGrath made it a 3-0 game off a
Chris Cahill feed with 12:28 showing in the second
period.
Gibbs Preston
(Baltimore, Md./McDonogh) broke up the shutout 1:16 later
before Rickels trimmed the deficit to one with 8:51 to play in the
first half.
McGrath needed just 16 seconds to stretch the lead back to two
before making it a three-goal game with 3:35 to play in the first
half.
Lynch stretched the lead to 6-2 just 55 seconds into the third
quarter before tallying at the 9:15 mark for a 7-2 advantage.
With a faceoff win – one of just seven on the day for the
Bullets, Matt McMurray raced to the cage and
scored for a six-goal advantage.
JS
Duke (Fort Washington, Pa./Upper Dublin) pulled the
visitors with 8-3, toeing the crease to finish a feed from Preston
with 7:41 on the third-quarter clock but Andrew
Ryan re-established the six-goal lead with 5:25
showing.
A Rickels man-up tally closed out the third-quarter scoring
before Rickels finished Preston's 206th career point just 37
seconds into the fourth quarter.
With 5:36 to play, William Clary
(Baltimore, Md./Catonsville) capped a
three-goal rally that pulled the Green Terror within three but the
Bullet defense held McDaniel off the scoreboard before
Patrick Koehl stuck home a loose ball with 46
seconds on the clock.
Score by
Period
1 2 3 4 -
F
McDaniel
(7-8)
0 2 2 2
- 6
No. 2 Gettysburg (15-1) 2 3
4 1 - 10
Goals
McDaniel: DJ Rickels 3, Gibbs Preston, JS Duke, William
Clary.
Gettysburg: Kyle McGrath 3, Danno
Lynch 3, Patrick Koehl, Andrew Ryan, Pat Satory, Matt McMurray.
Assists
McDaniel: Preston 2, Duke.
Gettysburg: Chris Cahill.
Shots: M 38, G 47. Ground
Balls: M 25, G 21. Goalies: M (Brad Motley – 7
saves, 9 GA, 39:35; Ty Wittelsberger
– 1 save, 1 GA, 20:25), G (John LeClerc – 11 saves, 6
GA). Extra-Man: M 1 of 3, G 0 of 2.
Face-Offs: M 13, G 7. Clearing: M
7 of 10, G 13 of 16. Penalties: M 2 for 1:30, G 3
for 2:00.
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