Box Score THE FACTS
No. 15 Gettysburg (9-4, 4-1 CC) 20, McDaniel (4-9, 0-4 CC) 7
What: Centennial Conference (CC) men's lacrosse game
When: Wednesday, Apr. 13
Where: Gettysburg, Pa.
THE SKINNY
Gettysburg, ranked 15th in the latest USILA Div. III coaches' poll, opened up a 7-1 first-quarter lead, ultimately defeating McDaniel, 20-7.
THE LEADERS
• Dom Calderoni (Glen Cove, N.Y./North Shore) led the Green Terror offense with four goals.
• Jason Fritz (Germantown, Md./Clarksburg) finished with three assists and a pair of ground balls.
FOR THE FOES
• Spencer Knife, George Raymond, and Aidan Wykoff each recorded a hat trick for the Bullets.
• Johathan Moshe went 16-for-21 on faceoffs and scooped up 11 ground balls.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• Gettysburg took advantage of an early man-up opportunity when Jack Dunleavy scored 1:03 into the game, sparking a 4-0 burst in the game's first 7:30. Nick DeLoriers (Abingdon, Md./John Carroll) finished a quick pass from Liam DeLorenzo (Allentown, N.J./Allentown) on a man-up opportunity to halt the opening run with 4:58 on the clock. The Bullets, however, scored three times in the final 2:43 of the quarter.
• The run extedned to 5-0 when Spencer Knife tallied his second and Kieran Ward finished a pass from Knife for a 9-1 lead with 10:21 remaining in the second quarter. Dom Calderoni finished the first of Jason Fritz's assists with 6:26 showing but two Bullet goals around a Fritz-to-Zach Micklos (Wasington, D.C./St. John's College) connection tfor an 11-3 game at the break.
• Quinton Mather found Knife and George Raymond in the opening seven minutes of the third quarter before Calderoni took a pass from DeLoriers for his first of three in the period with 7:27 showing. The teams traded tallies until Wykoff started a three-goal finish in the final 8:03 for the final margin.
THE INSIDE STORY
• Gettysburg finished with a 66-22 advantage in shots and won 22 of the 31 faceoffs.
• Zach Micklos picked up four ground balls for McDaniel.
NEXT UP
McDaniel returns to action at home against Swarthmore on Saturday. Game time is 12 p.m.