Box Score

WESTMINSTER, Md. - Kristy Costa and Jacqueline Pundt combined to score 13 points in a span of 4 minutes, 42 seconds to help McDaniel overcome a nine-point deficit and defeat Gettysburg 64-60 in the Centennial Conference (CC) West women's basketball second-place tie-breaker game on Monday.

With the victory, the Green Terror (18-7) move on to the CC semifinals and will travel to Muhlenberg on Wednesday. Game time is 7 p.m.

Costa finished the game with seven points, but scored four consecutive points to put the defending CC champions ahead to stay. Pundt tallied a team-high 14 points on 6-for-13 shooting from the floor and 2-for-2 from the free-throw line.

Kelly Cramp and Kris Brust each recorded 11 points while Toby McIntire added 10 points in the winning effort.

Jen Bengel (Timonium, MD/Roland Park Country), the current CC Player of the Week, tallied her ninth double-double of the season with 24 points and a career-best 17 rebounds. Dana Bear (Lansdale, PA/Lansdale Catholic) record 13 points while Jay Hodge (Silver Spring, MD/St. Vincent Pallotti) chipped in eight points and 11 rebounds in the loss.

The two squads battled for 35 minutes before McDaniel took the advantage and held on for its seven-straight victory against Gettysburg in the Gill Center.

With the score knotted at 52, the Green Terror scored 12 of the final 20 points in the final 4:18 of the game. After Bear hit 1 of 2 free throws to tie the game at 52, Costa scored in the paint with 3:37 remaining.

Bear tied the game at 54, but Costa answered with two free throw to give McDaniel the lead for good at the 3:02 mark. Pundt gave the Green Terror a four-point advantage 19 seconds later.

Bengel then drained two free throws before Brust converted a layup with 2:06 on the clock. Katie Eiden (Silver Spring, MD/Georgetown Visitation) and McIntire traded a pair before Bear brought the Bullets within two points at 62-60 on a jumper with 39 seconds left.

Hodge stole the ball with 19 seconds remaining, but missed a jumper on the baseline to tie the game with eight seconds left. Early in the second half, the Bullets went on a 13-3 run to grab a 50-41 lead.

After Jen Piccolomini hit 1 of 2 free throws, Adrienne Simmons (Douglassville, PA/Daniel Boone) converted a 3-point play to give Gettysburg its first lead since early in the first half at 40-28 with 11:57 left.

Erin White knocked down 1 of 2 from the charity stripe before Bengel, Eiden and Elizabeth Ross (Chestertown, MD/St. Andrew's School) combined to score seven unanswered in a span of 1 minute, 45 seconds.

McDaniel, however, rallied behind Costa and Pundt to regain the lead and move on to the conference semifinals.

The Green Terror took as large as a nine-point advantage in the first half, but Gettysburg scored four-straight points to end the half and go into the locker room trailing 30-25.

The Bullets will now wait to see if they get invited to participate in the ECAC tournament in March.

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