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HAVERFORD, Pa. - Elizabeth Ross (Chestertown, MD/St. Andrew's [DE]) led four players in double figures with 18 points and added 11 of Gettysburg's season-high 63 rebounds as the Bullets defeated Haverford 81-47 in Centennial Conference (CC) women's basketball action on Saturday.

Ross nearly posted her fourth double-double of the season before halftime, scoring 12 points and pulling down nine boards in 15 first-half minutes to help Gettysburg (9-10, 6-6 CC) improve to 12-0 all-time against the Fords (1-15, 0-9 CC).

Dana Bear (Lansdale, PA/Lansdale) added 13 points for the Bullets while Katie Eiden (Silver Spring, MD/Georgetown Visitation) and Amy Tarbell (East Greenwich, RI/East Greenwich) chipped in with 12 points apiece.

Caitie Kimura drained 4 of 5 3-pointers to finish with a game-high 19 points for Haverford, which went 9-for-20 from 3-point range, but only 6-for-44 on 2-point attempts. Meredith Foote also hit double figures with 12 points. The Fords were without the services of leading scorer Katie Crowley (14.3 ppg).

Behind 12 points from Ross, 11 from Bear and 42 rebounds, Gettysburg built a 27-point halftime lead and were never threatened.

Ross carried the Bullet offense in the opening minutes, knocking down four jumpers from all over the floor to give her squad a 14-4 lead with 11:02 left in the half. Kimura snapped Haverford's nearly eight-minute field-goal drought with a 3-pointer to cut the lead to 14-7, but Jamie Marshall (Pottsville, PA/Nativity B.V.M.) answered with a three of her own to touch off a 12-0 Gettysburg burst that pushed the lead to 26-7.

Bear extended the visitors' advantage to 20 for the first time with a free throw at 3:51. Transition laypus by Jen Bengel (Timonium, MD/Roland Park Country School) and Eiden, and a pair of Ross free throws sent the Bullets to the locker room with a 47-20 lead.

Ross hit two more jumpers in the first four minutes of the second half to help Gettysburg score eight straight points and extend the advantage to 55-20. An Emily Falk (Boiling Springs, PA/Boiling Springs) bucket gave the Bullets their biggest lead of the day at 61-22 with 12:01 left.

Bengel was held to single-digit scoring (five points) for the first time in 13 games, but hauled in 10 rebounds, keying Gettysburg's 63-36 rebounding advantage. Eiden's 12 points were a single-game season high.

The Bullets return to action on Tuesday at McDaniel. Game time is 7 p.m.

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