Brigid Behan, Gettysburg

Box Score

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Senior Brigid Behan (Newport, R.I./Portsmouth Abbey) scored off her own steal in the 66th minute, lifting the Gettysburg College women's soccer team to a 1-0 Centennial Conference (CC) victory over Dickinson College Wednesday evening at Clark Field.
 
The Bullets (8-3-1, 4-0-1 CC) won their fourth match in a row and handed Dickinson (10-2-1, 4-1-1 CC), ranked fourth in the region entering the night, just its second loss of the season. Gettysburg, ranked ninth regionally, has blanked all four of its opponents during its current winning streak and allowed just 4.5 shots per game during the stretch.
 
At the midway point of its Centennial Conference schedule the Bullets now find themselves in second place in the conference standings, trailing only Johns Hopkins University (5-0 CC).
 
Gettysburg held just a 4-3 edge in shots during the first half before turning up the heat in the second stanza, outshooting the Red Devils 14-2. The Bullets finally broke through when Behan poked away a Dickinson pass, then tracked down the ball into the right side the box. She then eluded her defender with a hard cut to the left before burying a left-footed shot past a diving keeper and into the lower-left corner of the net for her second goal of the season. It was an early birthday present for the Behan, who turns 22 on Thursday.
 
Junior goalie Eliza Gray (South Orange, N.J./Columbia) made the lead stand up, making two of her three saves over a 31-second stretch five minutes later. The Bullets nearly scored again following a three-shot flurry in the 75th minute, but a Dickinson defender knocked away a shot by freshman Krissy Bradley (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Ludlowe) that appeared to be headed inside the right post before senior Georgia Ferguson (Bethel, Conn./Bethel) had back-to-back shots from point-blank range blocked by defenders.
 
Behan also had a great look earlier in the match. In the 20th minute, her header of a corner kick from senior Meg Castranova (Pennington, N.J./Pennington School) was saved by Charlotte Armour, who finished with six stops.