GETTYSBURG, Pa. – 24th-ranked Swarthmore College posted the game-winning goal at the 75th minute to slip 1-0 past the Gettysburg College women's soccer team in a Centennial Conference match Saturday evening at Clark Field on Senior Day.

The Bullets' five seniors Alexa Bushey (West Chester, Pa./Bayard Rustin), Samantha Esposito (Portage, Mich./Portage Central), Hannah Hallos (Matawan, N.J./Old Bridge), Lauren Miesemer (Garden City, N.Y./Garden City), and Virginia Sanford (Norfolk, Va./Norfolk Collegiate School) were honored in a brief ceremony prior to the start of the match.

After tonight's loss, Gettysburg finds itself in fifth place in the Centennial Conference standings with Dickinson at fourth (5-2-1 CC), McDaniel at third (6-3 CC), Swarthmore at second (6-1-1), and Johns Hopkins at first (8-0).  

Both teams battled it out hard in the opening half as the two squads headed into halftime with a 0-0 draw. Swarthmore outshot the Bullets 9-3, but Gettysburg held the 3-0 edge in corner kicks. The closest the Bullets came to scoring a goal was at the 16th minute marker when freshman Erica Muskus (Scotch Plains, N.J./Scotch Plains Fanwood) kicked a powerful shot that hit the left post.

At the 75th minute, Swarthmore's Amy Harris took the corner kick and placed the ball right to Grace Taylor who headed the ball into the back of the net for the game-winner.

With the fierce wind and misty rain towards the end of the second half, Swarthmore ended the match outshooting the Bullets 15-6, but Gettysburg owned the 5-2 advantage in corner kicks.

Freshman Madelyn Cunningham (Mount Airy, Md./Linganore) stopped six shots with four of them coming in the second half.  

Gettysburg visits 4th-ranked Johns Hopkins on Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 7:00 p.m. in another Centennial Conference match.