SPARKS, Md. – Junior Courtney Patterson (Whitehouse Station, N.J./Hunterdon Central) grabbed a career-high 11 draw controls and classmate Liza Barr (Medford, N.J./Shawnee) tallied a personal best 11 points as top-ranked Gettysburg College dispatched No. 19 Ithaca College 20-9 in a non-conference women's lacrosse contest held at US Lacrosse's Tierney Field Thursday afternoon.
 
Gettysburg (5-0) connected on 69 percent of its shot attempts and dominated possession of the ball thanks to 24-6 advantage on draw controls against Ithaca (2-2).
 
Patterson topped her personal high for draws by one and set the stage for the Bullets to put on a show offensively. Barr tied her career high with five goals and dished out six assists for the highest scoring output by a Gettysburg player since Kelsey Markiewicz '14 also scored 11 points against Elizabethtown College in 2012.
 
Senior Steph Colson (Westminster, Md./Manchester Valley) scored five goals to go along with two ground balls and five draw controls, while sophomores Kerry McKeever (Stony Brook, N.Y./Ward Melville) and Bri Stokes (Sudbury, Mass./Lincoln-Sudbury Regional) each tossed in three goals.
 
Senior goalie Bailey Pilder (Rowayton, Conn./New Canaan) recorded three saves, three ground balls, and one caused turnover. Junior Claire Macatee (Street, Md./North Harford) totaled two ground balls, a caused turnover, and five draw controls.
 
Bailey Herr paced Ithaca with two goals and three assists, while Jacqui Hallack, Elizabeth Rice, and Erin Mcgee each scored a pair of tallies.
 
Gettysburg won each of the first six draw controls and ran out to a 4-1 lead following a three-goal run less than four minutes into the contest. Herr kept the Bombers in the game with a goal, but following a save by Pilder, the Bullets went on the offensive. Colson slipped past the defense for her first goal at 23:55 to kick off a five-goal run. McKeever capped the spurt with a lefty shot past the keeper to make it 9-2 with 20:25 left in the first half.
 
Ithaca kept the margin to six on a goal by McGee which made it 12-6 with 6:30 to go in the opening period. Gettysburg ended the half with a flurry, tossing in four goals in the final 2:33, including a feed from Barr to Stokes right before the horn to make it 16-6.
 
The Bullets scored the first three goals of the second stanza with Barr extending the lead to 19-6 with 22:45 left. The Bombers pulled within 10 on a three-goal run before freshman Caroline Regan (New Rochelle, N.Y./The Ursuline School) capped the scoring with her first collegiate goal with 5:35 to play.
 
Gettysburg held a 29-21 lead in shots, while Ithaca led in ground balls 16-10.
 
The Bullets meet seventh-ranked York (Pa.) College next Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Clark Field. The Spartans handed Gettysburg a 14-12 setback last season, which was the Bullets' final loss before running to the national championship.