Semifinal (at Collegeville): #4 Johns Hopkins d. #1 Ursinus, 1-0.
Semifinal (at Collegeville): Gettysburg d. McDaniel, 3-2.
Final (at Collegeville): #4 Johns Hopkins d. Gettysburg, 4-3 (OT).

Collegeville, PA - Johns Hopkins senior midfielder Ashlee Duncan (Easton, MD/Easton) scored an unassisted goal with 7:12 remaining in the first overtime period to give the Blue Jays a 4-3 win over Gettysburg in the Centennial Conference Field Hockey Tournament Championship Sunday afternoon on the campus of Ursinus College.

The Blue Jays, who improved to 11-8 on the season, earned an automatic bid to the 2003 NCAA Division III Tournament. The tournament bracket will be released Sunday night.

Gettysburg, which fell to 11-8 on the season, struck first just 39 seconds into the game when Katie Lowe scored off an assist from Kate Hopkins. However, the Blue Jays quickly answered, as Duncan took a feed from senior forward Kelly Hewitt (Stafford, VA/Springfield Township-PA) and blasted a shot past Bullets goalkeeper Jessy O'Neill to tie the game at 1-1 with 31:34 remaining in the half. The assist was the 20th of Hewitt's career, moving her into sole possession of second place on the JHU career assists list.

Hopkins, the fourth seed in the tournament, took the lead at the 18:12 mark when sophomore forward Caite Kappel (Pittsburgh, PA/Sewickley Academy) scored her fifth goal of the season by deflecting sophomore midfielder Meighan Roose's (Baltimore, MD/York-ME) shot from the top of the circle past O'Neill.

Third-seeded Gettysburg tied the game when Meg Goddu scored an unassisted goal with 7:07 left in the half, but Duncan answered by scoring off a pass from Roose with 2:01 remaining, and Hopkins took a 3-2 lead into the half.

The teams played evenly throughout the first 20 minutes of the second half but the Bullets, who had defeated Hopkins, 3-0, in the regular season in Gettysburg on September 30, dominated the final 15 minutes. Kelley Mishler, who shot wide on an open cage from point blank range with nine minutes left, tied the game with just 1:34 remaining on an unassisted goal.
 
Both teams had opportunities in the overtime period, which featured seven-on-seven action, before Duncan collected a loose ball and fired a shot past O'Neill from about eight yards out for the game-winner to send Hopkins to the NCAA Tournament and set off the Blue Jays' celebration. The hat trick was Duncan's third in her last five games, after she did not record any in the first 68 games of her career. Duncan now leads Hopkins with 12 goals and 31 points this season.
JHU sophomore goalkeeper Meredith Shifman (South Orange, NJ/Columbia) made nine saves for the Blue Jays, while O'Neill stopped five shots in the Gettysburg goal. The Bullets held a slim 18-16 advantage in shots and a 12-8 edge in penalty corners.

Hopkins will be making its sixth appearance in the NCAA Tournament and its third under head coach Megan Callahan. The Blue Jays last appeared in the tournament in 2000, when Hopkins received a first round bye before falling at the College of New Jersey, 3-1, in the second round.