Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Let's Get This Party Started

It's here ... first-round day for the 2005 Centennial Conference field hockey, men's and women's soccer and volleyball championship tournaments. It's a day for the #4 and #5 seeds to start a new season as they strive to reach this weekend's final four. We will post updates from the games here throughout the day. Check back often.

Field Hockey
#5 seed Franklin & Marshall (12-5) takes its #19 national ranking to Baltimore, looking to avenge a 7-0 defeat inflicted by #4 seed Johns Hopkins (9-8) in Baltimore on Oct. 8. The Diplomats' Brittany Croll is second among CC players in scoring (16-8-40), while Hopkins has a balanced attack led by senior Caite Kappel (7-2-16) and freshmen Adair Landy (6-4-16) and Leah Horton (5-6-16). Game time is 7 p.m.

Men's Soccer
#4 seed Johns Hopkins (11-2-4) welcomes #5 seed Gettysburg (7-5-4) to Homewood Field in Baltimore for a rematch of their regular-season scoreless draw at the Battlefield. Hopkins has outshot its opponents, 128-58, this season but has struggled to put teams away. Bullet keeper Nick Wells-Bundtzen made eight saves back on Sept. 28 vs. JHU. The Jays are nearly unbeatable at home with a 112-8-8 record since 1994. Game time is 3:30.

Women's Soccer
Ursinus (13-3-1), the #4 seed, plays host to #5 seed Gettysburg (8-7-2) in a rematch of their 2004 CC semifinal won by the Bullets, 2-0. This time, the match is in Collegeville, where the Bears won their first-ever match against the Orange and Blue, 1-0, on Sept. 17. Noelle Bisinger is the offensive leader for UC with 8-3-19, while Gettysburg's Katie Myers (8-3-19) was just named the CC Player of the Year. Game time is 2 p.m.

Volleyball
There's a new kid in town ... wearing Garnet and ready for a trip to the dance. #5 seed Swarthmore (13-14) makes its first-ever trip to the CC playoffs and visits Lancaster to take on #4 seed Franklin & Marshall (19-8). Youth will be served (pardon the pun) in this one, as the Garnet looks to soph Karen Berk and freshman Jennifer Wang to trigger the offense, while F&M turns to soph Susan Taylor and first-year Margot Phelan, a first-team All-CC selection. The Diplomats rolled to a 30-27, 30-26, 30-12 victory on Sept. 21. Game time is 7 p.m.

18 comments:

d3Playbook said...

at the half from Collegeville ...
Chelsea Morin scored in the 21st minute ... Ursinus 1, Gettysburg 0

d3Playbook said...

updates

71st minute ... Gettysburg's Kelly Burke hits the crossbar ...

75th minute ... Burke has a shot cleared off the line by UC's Lauren Washam.

85th minute ... Gettysburg scores on one-timer by Katie Myers.

no scores in OT ...

Ursinus 2-0 in PKs for win.

Bears advance to play Dickinson on Saturday.

d3Playbook said...

Men's Soccer - Halftime

Gettysburg 0, Johns Hopkins 0

d3Playbook said...

men's soccer w/28 minutes left

Gettysburg 0, Hopkins 0

shots: JH 14, GET 3

Anonymous said...

Men's soccer update,
Gettysburg vs. Johns Hopkins 1-1

GC's Garrett Bruno scored first on a pk at 72:22.

JHU's Nicholas Gauna scores at 76:33

Anonymous said...

Word has it...men's soccer also heading to PKs

Anonymous said...

Courtesy GC scoreboard...Bullets advance 5-4 on PKs

Anonymous said...

On Gettysburg site is is a final

Gettysburg advances 5-4 in PKs

Anonymous said...

volleyball from Lancaster ...

game 1 - Franklin & Marshall d. Swarthmore, 30-22

d3Playbook said...

volleyball game 2 -- Swarthmore 31, F&M 29

match tied 1-1

d3Playbook said...

volleyball - game 3

F&M 30, Swarthmore 25

F&M leads 2-1.

FINAL from Field Hockey
Johns Hopkins 3, Franklin & Marshall 1

Hopkins plays #1 Ursinus on Saturday in semis

d3Playbook said...

volleyball -- game 4
Swarthmore 30, F&M 28
match tied 2-2 ... final game to 15.

d3Playbook said...

Volleyball FINAL
Franklin & Marshall 15, Swarthmore 10
F&M wins 3-2 ... faces top-seeded Johns Hopkins in Saturday's semifinals.

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Can you post the volleyball match times for 11/5 and 11/6?

Would like to come if possible.

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