Box Score
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Junior Emily Falk (Boiling Springs, PA/Boiling Springs) posted her first double-double, tying a season best
with 13 points and adding a career-high 10 rebounds to propel
Gettysburg to a 61-57 Centennial Conference (CC) victory
over visiting Dickinson in women’s basketball on Wednesday evening.
Falk had all 10 of her rebounds on the defensive end of the floor and
scored five of the
Bullets' final 11 points to break a 50-all tie while playing
all 40 minutes. Jen
Bengel (Timonium,
MD/Roland Park Country School) netted a team-high 14 points, 10 after the intermission,
for Gettysburg (8-10, 5-6 CC) and Kathryn
Reilly (Ridgewood, NJ/Ridgewood) also reached double figures with 12 points.
Piper Etess tallied her second straight
double-double and led all scorers with 17 points and a game-high
11 boards for the Red Devils (8-6, 5-4 CC), who dropped
their third straight conference game.
Jess Howard rattled home the first 3-pointer of the game for either
team with 5:22 to play to spark an 8-0 Dickinson run
in 56 seconds to tie the contest at 50, marking the tenth
and final tie.
A Bengel layup at 4:12 gave the hosts the lead for
good. After Megan Shelley – Dickinson’s leading scorer, who
was held to six points – made 1 of 2 free throws to
cut the lead in half, Falk hit the Bullets’ only trey of the game to push the
lead back to four.
Allyson Teatom hit her final two of 15 points
with 43 seconds left to cut the lead to 58-57. Dana
Bear (Lansdale, PA/Lansdale Catholic) and Jamie Marshall (Pottsville, PA/Nativity B.V.M.) connected on three of their
four free throws down the stretch to seal the win and set
the final margin.
Gettysburg opened a 6-2 lead in the game’s
first three minutes, including four by Elizabeth Ross
(Chestertown, MD/St. Andrew’s [DE]), who was
limited to 15 minutes due to foul trouble and finished with
seven points.
The Red Devils rode four points from Teatom to counter and knot the contest at 10. Falk’s
first jumper of the game gave the Bullets the lead back
at 12-10. Bengel stretched the
hosts’ lead back to four with a jumper of her own.
Etess sparked an 11-2 run over the
next three and a half minutes with five points to give Dickinson a 21-16 lead. Back-to-back
buckets by Falk and Reilly pulled Gettysburg to 21-20 with 8:26 to play in the opening stanza.
Five free throws by Etess
and a bucket from Howard allowed the Red Devils to open
their largest lead of the game at 28-20. Bear hit two free
throws of her own to snap a five-minute scoring drought
by the Bullets en route to a 29-25 halftime deficit.
Jumpers by Bengel and Reilly to open the second
half tied the game at 29-all with 17:26
to play. Etess tied the game at
39, connecting on two of her nine free throws. Reilly and
Tarbell combined for seven points
sparked an 11-3 run that gave the Bullets their biggest
lead at 50-42 with 5:44 to play.
Bengel and
Reilly finished with eight rebounds apiece for Gettysburg. Reilly also set a career high in blocked shots with
four.
The Bullets returns to action on Saturday at Haverford. Game time is 2 p.m.
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