Box Score
ARLINGTON, Va. - Freshman Jen Bengel
(Timonium, MD/Roland Park Country) scored a career-high
20 points and added 16 rebounds for her first collegiate double-double
to lead Gettysburg past Bridgewater (Va.) 74-59 in the fourth-place
game of the Marymount Tip-off Tournament on Sunday.
Bengel went 6-for-17 from the field and 8-of-8
from the free-throw line to earn a spot on the All-Tournament
team. In the three games in the tournament, she averaged 16.0
points and 10.3 rebounds per game.
Dana Bear (Lansdale, PA/Lansdale Catholic),
who led the Bullets (2-1) with 20 points in a 60-57 victory
against Elizabethtown on Saturday, scored 11 points and dished
out a career-high five assists. Jamie Marshall (Pottsville,
PA/Nativity B.V.M.) chipped in a career-high 11 points
while Jay Hodge (Silver Spring, MD/St. Vincent Palotti)
added eight points and 10 rebounds in the winning effort.
Katie Brennan led the Eagles
with 22 points while Marie Bolton tallied 18
points and a team-high eight rebounds in the loss.
After Bridgewater took an early lead, Gettysburg
rallied and never looked back for its second consecutive victory.
The Eagles grabbed a 13-5 lead 4:32 into
the game, but the Bullets scored 19 unanswered points to take
a 24-13 advantage.
Brennan tallied seven straight points before
Bear ended Brennan's run with a 3-pointer to make the score
13-8 with 13:43 remaining in the first half.
Elizabeth Ross (Chestertown, MD/St.
Andrew's School), who chipped in 10 first-half points,
scored on a layup and Marshall knocked down a jumper before
Ross hit two free throws to take a 14-13 lead with 12:21 remaining
until halftime.
Emily Falk (Boiling Springs, PA/Boiling
Springs) scored from behind the arc and Marshall converted
1 of 2 free throws to give Gettysburg a five-point advantage.
Bengel scored two more baskets sandwiched
in between a Ross jumper to give the Bullets a 24-13 lead
with 8:02 on the clock.
Allison Nichols ended the run
with a free throw, but Katie Eiden (Silver Spring, MD/Georgetown
Visitation) drained a trey to give Gettysburg a 13-point
advantage.
Bridgewater pulled within nine points in
the second half on a pair of free throws by Sarah Octavec
with 11:15 remaining, but Bengel answered by converting a
3-point play and the Eagles could get no closer the rest of
the way.
With the victories against the Blue Jays
and Bridgewater, which won its 700th-program victory against
Sewanee on Saturday, the Bullets defeated the two Division
III women's programs with the most all-time victories.
Gettysburg returns to action on Tuesday at
Haverford. Tip-off is 6 p.m.
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