de>GETTYSBURG, Pa. The Gettysburg College field hockey team will look to rekindle the magic from a successful 2019 campaign when it retakes the field this fall.
The Bullets won 11 games and advanced to the semifinals of the Centennial Conference Championship in its last full season in 2019. The team was full of drama late in the year, clinching a conference playoff spot with an overtime win over Dickinson College and holding off the best Bryn Mawr College field hockey team in that institution’s history in the first round of the CC Championship. Gettysburg made a late run in the conference semifinals before eventually falling to national semifinalist Johns Hopkins University 5-4.
Despite the loss of the 2020 campaign due to the pandemic, Head Coach Barb Jordan welcomes back a veteran squad led by nine seniors for her 20th season at the helm. Jordan is the program’s all-time wins leader with 174 and has led the Bullets into the postseason 10 times.
Gettysburg opens the year with a scrimmage at Goucher on Aug. 28 before travelling for three of the first four games of the season, including the season opener at Shenandoah University on Wednesday, Sept. 1, at 7 p.m. Shenandoah put together a 7-4 record this past spring and was crowned ECAC champion after a 17-win season in 2019.
The first home game of 2021 will feature Lebanon Valley College on Saturday, Sept. 4, at 1 p.m. The Dutchmen have put together a 17-8 combined record over the last two campaigns, but one of those setbacks includes a 2-1 victory by the Bullets in 2019. It was Gettysburg’s first win over Lebanon Valley in 20 years.
Gettysburg travels to Stevenson University and Alvernia University on Sept. 5 and Sept. 8, respectively, before a three-game home stand. The Bullets meet Cabrini University and Susquehanna University on back-to-back Saturdays before kicking off Homecoming Weekend with the Centennial opener against Bryn Mawr on Friday, Sept. 24, at 3:30 p.m.
The end of September and beginning of October sees Gettysburg involved in arguably its toughest stretch with three games against 2019 NCAA playoff participants. The Bullets begin a three-game road trip against Kean University, which went 19-4 and advanced to the second round of the national playoffs two years ago, on Saturday, Sept. 24, at 2 p.m. Four days later, Gettysburg meets 2019 national runner-up Franklin & Marshall University at 7 p.m.
After dropping back-to-back 3-2 decisions to Swarthmore in 2018 and 2019, the Bullets will look to upend the Garnet on Saturday, Oct. 2, at 4 p.m. The middle of the week lines Gettysburg against Johns Hopkins at home on Wednesday, Oct. 6, at 4 p.m. The Blue Jays have won the last two CC titles and advanced to the national semis in 2019. The Bullets host Muhlenberg College on Saturday, Oct. 9, at 1 p.m.
Gettysburg heads to Washington College one week later on Saturday, Oct. 16, at 1 p.m. before an annual showdown with Dickinson on Wednesday, Oct. 20, at 4 p.m. Each of the last three meetings between the Bullets and Red Devils have been decided by a goal with the winning team securing playoff berths in 2018 and 2019.
Gettysburg’s final two home games come against Haverford College and McDaniel College on Oct. 23 and Oct. 27, respectively. The Bullets close the regular season at the CC leader in team championships, Ursinus College, on Saturday, Oct. 30, at noon.
All home games will be streamed live on the Centennial Conference Digital Network.
This story was originally posted on the Gettysburg College Website.