Gettysburg

GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- Under a large tent in the Confederate civilian camp, a woman in a period red plaid dress and feathered hat speaks to her audience about the ghosts of Gettysburg.Barbara Lane, the speaker, thinks the spirits are not far from here. Indeed, she suggests, present-day Civil War re-enactors may have fought in blue or gray in a past life.Stranger still, she says her hypnotic "regression" sessions can help take them there, back to the 1860s, to summon spirits and memories of who and what they once were.

Despite finishing behind Franklin & Marshall and Gettysburg in the regular-season standings in the Centennial Conference, Washington College earned an at-large berth in the NCAA tournament over the Diplomats and Bullets. The decision did not shock coach Jeff Shirk. “I had the mindset that because Dickinson won [the conference tournament], [the selection committee was] going to take two teams from the Centennial, and I thought they would take us over F&M,” Shirk said Monday morning, referring to South region rankings putting the Shoremen at No. 6 over Franklin & Marshall at No. 9 and Gettysburg at No. 10. “Just based on some of the criteria, I just felt that we were going to be ahead of Gettysburg and F&M even though we lost the head-to-head games this year.” Washington College (12-4)

GETTYSBURG, Pa. - As the fire from thousands of thundering guns outside turned the sky smoky and gray that warm morning of July 3, 1863, Jennie Wade worked the dough for biscuits for the Union soldiers, pressing and patting it on the dough table in the small kitchen of her sister's home on Baltimore Street.In the next room, her sister, Georgia McClellan, lay on a walnut bedstead near the cradle where her 5-day-old son slept.Jennie Wade, her mother and younger brother had come for the occasion of the birth from their home on Breckenridge Street some blocks away in the small southern Pennsylvania farm town of Gettysburg.

No. 10 Washington College took the uncertainty out of its postseason plans by walloping Swarthmore, 16-5, Wednesday night and clinching a spot in the Centennial Conference tournament. The same cannot be said for the team's opponent in the tournament. How No. 19 Gettysburg fares against McDaniel on Saturday will determine whether the Shoremen (12-3 overall and 5-3 in the league) get the No. 3 or No. 4 seed. If the Green Terror (5-10, 2-5) upset the Bullets (8-6, 4-3), Washington would earn the third seed and meet Franklin & Marshall (10-4, 6-1)

Histories of Gettysburg often touch on Nov. 19, 1863, saying the President Abraham Lincoln spoke briefly and eloquently after a two-hour oration by Edward Everett. Poor Everett. He was a famous man in his time - a scholar, statesman and minister. Born April 11, 1794, in Dorchester, Mass., Everett graduated from Harvard University in 1811 with highest honors. He went on to study divinity at Harvard and in Feb. 9, 1814, was installed as pastor of the Brattle Street Unitarian Church. The next year he was appointed professor of Greek literature at Harvard.

Celebrate the season at the 19th annual Gettysburg Christmas Parade on Saturday. Load up the family and drive north to the historic city for a festive and merry evening. Beginning at 6:15 p.m., there will be caroling in Lincoln Square, with the grand holiday parade through town at 7 p.m. Local and school bands, dance groups, floats, area businesses, nonprofit organizations and other groups will participate in the parade. Santa Claus will arrive at the parade's conclusion, and then there will be a Christmas tree-lighting in the square's center.

Stevenson has had a tradition of turning out high-powered offenses, but it has been the defense that has carried the Mustangs this season . And the unit delivered again Saturday night as Stevenson defeated visiting Gettysburg, 13-6, in a second round Division III playoff game. Stevenson's defensemen Parker Bratton , Kyle Holecheck, Kyle Fendlay, Matthew Schenck and midfielders Ryan Rubenstein and Warren Pumphrey dominated the Bullets, and kept another team under six goals or less for the 13th time this season.

Gettysburg has a slight 2-1 lead in the series and defeated Stevenson, 12-7, in a NCAA tournament semifinal in 2009. The Bullets (11-6) had dropped their three previous contests until beating Ohio Wesleyan, 7-4, in the first round on Wednesday. The Mustangs (16-4) have won 11 of 12 games at home this season, most recently against Birmingham-Southern in the first round. Here are a few factors that could influence this NCAA tournament second-round contest at Mustang Stadium in Owings Mills Saturday night.

Women's college lacrosse Church's 7 points pace Gettysburg in 1st round Hannah Church (Mount de Sales) and Katie Blumenthal each contributed seven points as host Gettysburg (18-1) won, 22-7, over Cabrini (10-9) in the first round of the NCAA Division III women's lacrosse tournament on Wednesday. Church had four goals and three assists; she is two points shy of Katie Ceglarski (266 points) for fourth on the Bullets' all-time points list. Gettysburg will host Denison at 11:30 a.m. Saturday in the second round.

VOL. LIIII --- NO. 42.] BALTIMORE, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1863 [PRICE ONE CENT.THE BATTLE NEAR GETTYSBURG.HIGHLY INTERESTING DETAILS.Desperate Fighting of Army of Potomac.Repulse of the Rebels - Union Army Master of the Field - Capture of the Rebel Gen. Archer and his Whole Brigade - Gettysburg Shelled During the Action - Generals Reynolds and Paul Killed - Col. Lyle and Gen. Baxter Reported Killed - Col. Roy Stone Missing - Gens. Wadsworth, Doubleday and Steinwehr Reported Wounded.We published yesterday some particulars of a great battle fought on Wednesday last near Gettysburg, Pa., and to-day give further highly interesting particulars.

Wednesday night's road contest against Centennial Conference foe Swarthmore is no longer an ordinary game for Washington College, which needs the victory to clinch a berth in the conference tournament. A win over the Garnet would give the No. 10 Shoremen (11-3 overall and 4-3 in the league) at least the No. 4 seed in the Centennial Conference tournament. If No. 19 Gettysburg (8-5, 4-2) was to lose to Franklin & Marshall (9-4, 5-1) and McDaniel (5-10, 2-5), Washington would move up to the No. 3 seed.

Washington College got an emotional lift from last Wednesday's 7-6 decision over then-No. 5 and reigning national champion Salisbury. Now coach Jeff Shirk acknowledged that the team may have been too high. The Shoremen stumbled their way to an 8-1 deficit in the first half of an eventual 14-6 loss to then-unranked and Centennial Conference foe Gettysburg last Saturday - an outcome that dropped the team to fourth place in the league and put it at risk of missing the conference tournament.

Fighting for a berth in the Centennial Conference tournament, No. 12 Washington College could have used a week to dissect last Saturday's 15-10 loss to No. 2 Dickinson and prepare for Saturday's road contest against Gettysburg. Instead, the Shoremen get the unenviable task of welcoming reigning national champion and No. 5 Salibury to Chestertown Wednesday night for its next installment of the “War on the Shore” annual series. In the past, the rivals have met on a Saturday, but because of Centennial Conference obligations, Washington (10-2)

By virtue of last year's 7-1 record in the Centennial Conference, Washington bypassed perennial league powers Dickinson and Gettysburg en route to the school's first regular-season championship since 2004. And with just three starters gone, the Shoremen figure to be one of the teams considered a preseason favorite to finish first in the league again. That means that Dickinson, Gettysburg and other conference rivals like McDaniel, Haverford and Franklin & Marshall will place a target on Washington.

UMBC's Bria White scored 14 of her team-high 15 points in the second half to help the Retrievers pick up their first conference victory of the season, a 54-50 win over Maine in America East action Saturday at RAC Arena. White, UMBC's America East Player of the Game, was one of three Retrievers who scored in double digits. Senior guard Brittany Crowell scored 12 points, and classmate Raven Harris had 10 points, six rebounds, five steals and three assists. Trailing by 11 points at the break, Maine (1-13, 0-1)

Under the Friday night lights at Homewood Field, the Johns Hopkins running attack could not be stopped. Tied at 28 heading into the fourth quarter, the Blue Jays scored 21 unanswered points in the game's final 14 minutes, including a 63-yard run by Jonathan Rigaud, to seal a 49-35 victory over Gettysburg, and remain undefeated on the season. Rigaud, JD Abbott and quarterback Robbie Matey combined for 372 rushing yards and six touchdowns on the ground. With 7:22 remaining, Matey capped a 12-play drive with a 3-yard touchdown run to give the Blue Jays (7-0, 6-0 Centennial Conference)

No. 17 Washington doesn't have much time to sit and bemoan Saturday's 13-11 loss to No. 13 and Centennial Conference rival Gettysburg as another league foe in Swarthmore will visit Roy E. Kirby Jr. Field in Chestertown Wednesday night and then the Shoreman will travel to meet Salisbury in another installment of their War on the Shore series. Even so, coach Jeff Shirk said the players are taking the setback in stride. “We talked to them a little bit [Sunday], and I think it was a little bit of disappointment because we felt like we really let one slip away,” Shirk said Monday.

Sam Bradman scored the last two Salisbury goals, including the game-winner with 15.7 seconds left in overtime, as the Sea Gulls, ranked third in Division III, upset top-ranked Gettysburg, 11-10, Saturday. Bradman (four goals) gave Salisbury (10-0) a 10-8 lead with 8:18 left in the game. The host Bullets (9-1) answered by scoring twice in the last 4:29, including Kyle McGrath's game-tying goal with 39 seconds left to force the overtime. Shawn Zordani found Bradman just inside the restraining box. Bradman took two steps and his right-handed shot landed in the bottom left corner of the goal, his second game-winning goal of the season.

Prior to getting a lower seed than Washington College - an opponent that Goucher had defeated, 8-6, on Feb. 25 - in the NCAA tournament for not fielding a terribly impressive strength of schedule, coach Kyle Hannan had already been working on beefing up the team's schedule for 2013. Next year's lineup of non-conference opponents will include several new additions in Stevenson, St. Mary's and McDaniel. Those three teams will be added to a group that already includes the Shoremen, Gettysburg, Mary Washington and Randolph Macon.

Gettysburg has a slight 2-1 lead in the series and defeated Stevenson, 12-7, in a NCAA tournament semifinal in 2009. The Bullets (11-6) had dropped their three previous contests until beating Ohio Wesleyan, 7-4, in the first round on Wednesday. The Mustangs (16-4) have won 11 of 12 games at home this season, most recently against Birmingham-Southern in the first round. Here are a few factors that could influence this NCAA tournament second-round contest at Mustang Stadium in Owings Mills Saturday night.