Box Score
BALTIMORE, Md. - Julie Miller
led three players in double figures with 17 points as 16th-ranked
Johns Hopkins used strong offensive rebounding to defeat Gettysburg
65-59 in Centennial Conference (CC) women's basketball action
on Wednesday.
Amanda Leese added 13 points
and pulled down nine of the Blue Jays' 28 offensive rebounds
on the night, finishing with 14 boards. Maureen Myers
chipped in with 15 points to help Johns Hopkins (6-0, 2-0
CC) post its 15th consecutive win over the Bullets (1-4, 0-2
CC) in Baltimore.
The victory overshadowed a milestone evening
for Gettysburg senior Dana Bear (Lansdale, PA/Lansdale
Catholic), who became the seventh player in program
history to score 1,000 career points. Bear finished with 25
points thanks to a career-high seven 3-pointers and also pulled
down a season-high seven rebounds.
Despite shooting only 30 percent for the
game, the Blue Jays took advantage of 30 Bullet turnovers
to deliver head coach Nancy Funk's 300th victory
at Johns Hopkins.
Myers put the Blue Jays ahead to stay at
33-32 with a one-handed runner just 2:34 into the second half,
starting a 9-2 burst that made it 40-34 with 14:23 to play.
Kathryn Reilly (Ridgewood, NJ/Ridgewood)
pulled the visitors within 41-38 with the last of her 11 points,
but fouled out seconds later. Keyed by five points from Myers
and three from Ashanna Randall, JHU put together
a 10-0 run to push the lead to 51-38 with 8:55 left.
A Miller put-back made it 60-48 with 2:51
to play, but Bear swished her final two 3-pointers to fuel
an 11-3 burst that pulled Gettysburg within 63-59 in the final
minute. The Bullets, however, came up empty on their next
possession and Leese hit an uncontested layup to seal the
win.
After trailing by as many as 11 points midway
through the first half, Johns Hopkins clamped down on defense
and rallied to take a three-point lead into halftime.
Down 23-12, the Blue Jays came out of a full
timeout with 3-pointers from Alissa Burkholder
and Miller, and consecutive transition baskets by Ashley
Felix in a span of 1 minute, 33 seconds to cut the
lead to 23-22. Bear's fourth 3-pointer of the half temporarily
halted the run, but Randall and Myers converted 3 of 4 free
throws, and Leese hit a turnaround jumper to give JHU its
first lead since the opening minutes at 27-26.
Felix scored on a breakaway layup and Tamera
Means converted both ends of a 1-and-1 to cap the
19-3 run and make it 31-26. Reilly scored the last two of
her nine first-half points with 1:03 left in the half to snap
the Bullets' 7-minute, 8-second scoring drought.
With Bear blowing past the 1,000-career point
mark, the game's first 10 minutes belonged to Gettysburg.
Reilly snapped a 6-all tie with a 15-foot
jumper and Bear followed with a 3-pointer from the left side
for a 11-6 lead, leaving her five points shy of 1,000.
The senior captain stuck a jumper to make
it 17-11, then got her milestone points on a deep 3-pointer
with 10:50 left in the half for a 20-12 advantage. On the
Bullets' next possession, Bear drained another three to stretch
the visitors' lead to 23-12 and force the Blue Jays to call
their second timeout.
Elizabeth Ross (Chestertown, MD/St.
Andrew's [DE]) contributed eight points and a team-high
nine rebounds off the Gettysburg bench. Jamie Marshall
(Pottsville, PA/Nativity B.V.M.) tied a career high
with eight assists.
The Bullets return to action on Saturday
at home against McDaniel. Game time is 4 p.m.
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