300: Janczyk Hits Milestone in Bullet Victory
from press release
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Senior Kyle McGrath (Randolph,
N.J./Randolph) and junior Danno Lynch (Medfield, Mass./Avon Old
Farms [Conn.]) scored three goals apiece while head coach Hank
Janczyk won his 300th game at Gettysburg and the second-ranked
Bullets held off a late rally to beat fourth-seeded McDaniel
College 10-6 in the Centennial Conference semifinals Friday
afternoon at a sweltering Shirk Field at Musselman Stadium.
The top-seeded Bullets (15-1) advance to their 10th straight
Centennial Conference final, where they will face third-seeded
Haverford College. The Fords knocked off fifth-ranked and
second-seeded Dickinson College 12-11 in double overtime in the
other semifinal. The two teams will face off at noon on Sunday.
Janczyk, now in his 23rd season at Gettysburg, becomes just the
third coach in NCAA men's lacrosse history to win 300 games at one
school, joining current Salisbury University coach Jim Berkman and
former University of Massachusetts head coach Dick Garber. Janczyk,
who also won 33 games in three years at Salisbury and 12 games in
two years at Colgate University, owns a career record of 345-99. He
trails only Berkman, who has won 363 games, on the all-time NCAA
men's lacrosse coaching wins list.
McDaniel (7-8) trailed by as much as six in the second half but cut
the deficit in half with a late 3-0 run. The Green Terror was led
by DJ Rickels, who also scored three goals, while Gibbs Preston
added one goal and two assists. JS Duke contributed one goal and
one assist for McDaniel.
For the fourth game in a row and the 11th time this season, the
Bullets never trailed, scoring the game's first three goals. Lynch
put Gettysburg on the scoreboard 2:50 into the game before
sophomore Pat Sartory (Ellicott City, Md./McDonough School) added a
goal with 5:34 left as the Bullets held a 2-0 lead at the end of
the first quarter despite being outshot 13-10.
Gettysburg outshot McDaniel 27-13 over the middle two quarters when
it began to pull away. McGrath converted his first tally 2:32 into
the second quarter, taking a feed from junior Chris Cahill
(Nashville, Tenn./Montgomery Bell Academy) to push Gettysburg's
advantage to 3-0. However, the Green Terror pulled to within one,
getting back-to-back goals from Preston and Rickels 2:21 apart to
make it 3-2 with 8:51 to go in the first half. However, the Bullets
answered with a 5-0 run that spanned the second and third quarters
to open up a five-goal lead.
McGrath struck for two more goals five minutes apart to put
Gettysburg on top 6-2 heading into the locker room. It was Lynch's
turn at the start of the second half, scoring less than a minute
into the stanza, then again with 9:15 to go in the third quarter to
make it a 7-2 game. Sophomore Matt McMurray (Orangeville, Ont./Hill
Academy) completed the run for the Bullets seven seconds after
Lynch's final goal, scoring off his own face-off for his first
collegiate goal.
Duke halted the Bullets surge when he scored with 7:41 on the
clock, but junior Andrew Ryan (Palm Beach, Fla./Westminster School
[Conn.]) answered for Gettysburg with 5:25 remaining to put his
team up 9-3. However, that's when Rickels started McDaniel's late
rally, scoring with 4:11 to go in the third quarter and 37 seconds
into the fourth quarter to make it 9-5. William Clary then made it
a 9-6 game when he scored off Preston's second assist with 5:36
showing.
The Green Terror had an excellent chance to draw even closer as
they gained an extra-man opportunity after Clary's goal and later
had a two-man advantage for 22 seconds. But Rickels and Preston
each had a shot hit the post during the stretch, and Bullet goalie
John LeClerc (Acton, Mass./Tilton School [N.H.]) turned aside
another shot. McDaniel had three more shots that could have
pulled the Terror to within two, but was unable to convert before
senior Patrick Koehl (Shamong, N.J./St. Joseph's Prep [Pa.]) put
the game away when he scored with 46 seconds left.
LeClerc finished with 11 saves while Brad Motley stopped seven
shots while yielding nine goals over the opening 39:35 for
McDaniel. Ty Wittelsberger had one save and allowed one goal over
the final 20:25.
McDaniel's Matt Dean took all of his team's face-offs and finished
13-for-20. McMurray, who had not taken more than six face-offs in a
game heading into the contest, finished 7-for-15.
Gettysburg's match-up with Haverford marks a rematch of last year's
Centennial Conference championship game, which the Bullets won 12-5
at Haverford.
