Box Score
GETTYSBURG, Pa. - Jen Bengel (Timonium, MD/Roland Park
Country) and Emily Falk (Boiling Spring, PA/Boiling
Spring) each scored 16 points to lead Gettysburg past
Washington (Md.) 73-61 in Centennial Conference (CC) women's
basketball action on Saturday.
Bengel went 7-for-15 from the floor for 16
points and added nine rebounds. Falk, who scored a career-high
17 points against Haverford on Nov. 26, drained a career-high
four 3-pointers to move into 12th place on the program's all-time
list with 21.
Jay Hodge (Silver Spring, MD/St. Vincent
Pallotti) chipped in nine points and a career-high
20 rebounds. Hodge is the first Bullets' player to haul in
20 rebounds since Katie Hewes grabbed 21 against Franklin
& Marshall on Jan. 13, 2001.
Elizabeth Ross (Chestertown, MD/St.
Andrew's School) added a season-high 14 points and
eight rebounds off the bench in the winning effort.
Yianna Patronas led the Shorewomen
(0-4, 0-1 CC) with 18 points and 12 rebounds while Katie
Piringer also added 18 points in the loss.
Washington jumped out to an early lead, but
Gettysburg (4-1, 2-0 CC) answered and never looked back for
their sixth consecutive victory against the Shorewomen.
Washington opened the game with a 5-0 lead,
but the Bullets went on a 22-2 run in a span of 7 minutes,
56 seconds to take a 22-7 lead.
Bengel convert two free throws for Gettysburg's
first points of the contest with 17:12 remaining in the half.
Ross hit a jumper and Falk hit a 3-pointer to put the Bullets
ahead to stay 7-5 with 14:12 left. Ross made another jumper
before Amy Tarbell (East Greenwich, RI/East Greenwich)
scored to make it 11-5 with 12:54 on the clock.
Karen Simos ended Gettysburg's
11-0 run with a jumper, but Gettysburg scored 11 more unanswered
points. Tarbell knocked down a jumper and Katie Eiden
(Silver Spring, MD/Georgetown Visitation) 1 of 2 free
throws to give Gettysburg a seven-point advantage.
Hodge made back-to-back layups before Ross
scored to increase the lead to 19-7.
Dana Bear (Lansdale, PA/Lansdale Catholic)
then scored one of her two treys in the game, but Simos ended
the run with a free throw at the 8:58 mark.
Fueled by seven points by Patronas, the Shorewomen
ended the half on a 19-12 run to go into the intermission
down, 34-26.
Washington trailed by as many as 11 points
in the second half, but cut its deficit to seven points with
5:45 remaining in the game on two free throws by Simos to
make the score, 59-52. Falk restored the Gettysburg double-digit
lead with a 3-pointer.
The Shorewomen again came within seven points,
but freshman Jamie Marshall (Pottsville, PA/Nativity
B.V.M) drove the lane for a layup off a Bengel assist
with 50 ticks left for a 68-59 lead.
The Bullets return to action on Wednesday
at Johns Hopkins. Game time is 7 p.m.
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