ST. DAVIDS, Pa.– The visiting Gettysburg College Bullets scored five unanswered goals in the third period to break open a close game and beat Eastern University Men's Lacrosse 13-6. The No. 10 Bullets (3-3)  scored five man-up goals in the second half.

Throught the first half, the host Eagles (2-4) played right with the 2016 National Semifinalists despite Gettysburg's dominance at the faceoff x. The Bullets won seven of the nine first-half face-offs, but Jameal Hadeed made seven stops and the Eagles were able to force seven turnovers to even out possessions in the opening half hour.

Gettysburg scored twice before the Eagles had the ball, but Bryan Goetz put away his 12th goal of the year just past the midway point of the first period to pull the Eagles within one. Gettysburg answered with a goal in the 13th minute and seemed poised to push the advantage to 4-1 after claiming the faceoff. Nick Jinks picked off a Bullet entry pass and gave the Eagles a final possession in the first period.

Grant Smith created the chance with a feed to Trevor Gallion who found Sean Fechter cutting across the top of the crease. Fechter buried the overhand shot to pull the Eagles to within a goal.

The Bullets scored first in the second quarter, but Tim Lamb answered with less than two minutes to play in the half to pull Eastern back to within a goal. The Eagles had the final possession of the half, but Jake Billara's feed into the crease went awry and the Bullets held a 4-3 halftime edge.

The Eagles won the opening faceoff the third quarter on a good ground ball pick up from Ethan Joseph. From that point, not much else went right in the period for the Eagles. Eastern forced a shot clock against the Bullets in the fourth minute of the half, but the clock was turned off by an Eastern penalty. Gettysburg midfielder Blake Gray scored his first of five second-half goals as time was expiring on the 30-second penalty.

Less than three minutes later, Eastern went man-down again. Again the Bullets capitalized. After Gray scored an even strength goal, the Bullets picked up another extra-man opportunity and Gray made it 8-3 with four and a half minutes to play in the period. A two-minute penalty late int he third period resulted in a two more Gettysburg extra-man goals.  The Gettysburg run reached seven goals when Jack Harvey scored his second of the day with 12;28 to play in the game.

The Eagles showed life with a rally in the fourth. Billera started the action with a strong dodge down the right alley to draw a slide. He flipped a pass to Gallion who scored just under the crossbar to pull the Eagles to within 11-4. Lamb found Goetz for another goal at the midpoint of the fourth period, and Hassan Mackey closed out the Eastern scoring two minutes later with a dodge down the right alley.

Gray scored twice more for the Bullets final margin.

The Bullets put 28 shots on goal to just 16 for Eastern, but the most telling two statistics of the day were at the faceoff x and capitalizing on extra-man opportunities. Gettysburg won 17-of-22 faceoffs and scored five times on four extra-man opportunities. Eastern did not score on either of its two extra-man chances.

The schedule will not get much easier for the Eagles as they will travel to Ursinus on the No. 14 Bears on Wednesday evening.