Box Score
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Jen Bengel (Timonium,
MD/Roland Park Country School) recorded
her ninth double-double of the season with 12 points and
10 rebounds to help Gettysburg defeat Haverford 83-41 in Centennial Conference (CC)
women’s basketball action on Friday.
Senior captain Dana Bear (Lansdale, PA/Lansdale
Catholic) led the Bullets (6-9, 3-5 CC) with 16
points while Elizabeth Ross (Chestertown, MD/St. Andrew’s
[DE]) chipped in her sixth double-digit scoring
performance in the last seven games with 12.
Katie Crowley led the Fords (1-10, 0-5 CC) with a game-high
17 points, largely on 11-for-15 shooting from the charity
stripe.
Both teams opened an historic weekend with teams
around the CC competing in the conference’s first-ever
weekend of back-to-back competition. Gettysburg hosts Swarthmore on Saturday
while Haverford travels to Dickinson to conclude the pair of games.
In Friday’s opener, the Bullets took an
early 7-0 lead in the first 1 minute, 22 seconds of the
contest and never looked back en route to their third win
in the last four games, all conference games. Bear opened
the contest with a layup, and
Bengel capped the run with her second 3-pointer of the season.
Caitie Kimura momentarily halted the spurt with a trey of her own
at the 17:49 mark, but Gettysburg regained control with a 14-3
over the next six and a half minutes to open a 21-6 advantage.
A Crowley layup
snapped the run and pulled the Fords to within 13 at 21-8,
but Haverford could get no closer the rest of the way. Bear
and Ross combined for 16 of the Bullets’ final 28 points
of the opening stanza to open a 49-17 halftime edge.
Gettysburg pushed the lead to as many
as 44 on three different occasions in the second half, the
last coming at 78-34 with 6:14 to play when freshman Hillary Prutzman (Bethlehem, PA/Liberty) hit her only field goal of the second half. She also
pulled down a career-best nine rebounds – seven in
the second half – and set a new career high with three
steals.
Claudia Barston (Darien, CT/Darien) and Cat Arnold (Huntington, VT/Mt. Mansfield Union) tallied career highs in rebounding on the night with
eight and four, respectively. Barston
also notched a new best in scoring with five points.
Bear and Emily Falk (Boiling Springs, PA/Boiling Springs) combined for six of the Bullets’
eight 3-pointers, one off the team’s season high. The
duo joined forces for five of Gettysburg’s seven treys in the
opening 20 minutes, a season best for one half.
Kathryn Reilly (Ridgewood, NJ/Ridgewood) rounded out the Bullets’ double-digit scorers
with 10 points. Gettysburg has had at least four players
go for double figures seven times this season.
Gettysburg tips off against Swarthmore – who opened the weekend
at Bryn Mawr on Friday –
at 2 p.m.
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