Box Score
ARLINGTON, Va. – Elizabeth
Ross (Chestertown, MD/St. Andrew’s) posted
her second double-double of the season with 14 points and
13 rebounds to lead Gettysburg to a 50-43 victory over Elizabethtown
on the final day of the 17th Annual Marymount Tipoff Classic on Sunday.
Emily
Falk (Boiling Springs, PA/Boiling
Springs) added nine points and five rebounds to
lead the Bullets (2-1) to their third fourth-place finish
in four trips to the annual tournament.
Dana
Voit contributed a game-high 19 points for the Blue
Jays (1-2), including three of her team’s four 3-pointers.
With
the game tied at 8-all midway through the first half, Gettysburg closed the stanza
on a 16-4 run to take a 24-12 lead into the locker room.
Ross
converted a layup to take a 10-8 lead with 10:38 to
play and then stole the pass and went in for the uncontested layup
for a 12-8 advantage.
Freshman Megan
Hartman (Lewistown, PA/Indian Valley)
grabbed the rebound off a Ross miss to make it 20-12 with 3:12 remaining until
the intermission.
A minute and a
half later, Ross grabbed a defensive rebound and hit Hartman with a long pass,
who converted at the other end for a 22-12 advantage.
Katie
Eiden (Silver Spring, MD/Georgetown
Visitation) converted two of her game-high six free throws with 22.7 seconds
to go before halftime to make it a 12-point advantage.
Eiden
hit two more charity tosses 23 seconds into the second stanza
before Cristin Braun snapped a nearly eight-minute
scoring drought for Elizabethtown
with an elbow jumper.
Jamie
Marshall (Pottsville, PA/Nativity
B.V.M.) responded with her first trey of the season to make it a 29-14
lead.
Voit
cut the Blue Jay deficit to 31-23 with 13:36 to play, but Falk started a quick
7-0 spurt with the only other Bullet triple of the game to push it back to 15.
Falk
also collected a loose ball that Hartman knocked loose at midcourt
and drove in uncontested and Ross finished the run with a layup
for the 38-23 lead.
Still down 46-36
on a fast-break pull-up jumper by Falk with 3:56 to play, Elizabethtown
ran off seven straight points over the next 1 minute, 45 seconds to cut the deficit
to 46-43.
However, the Blue Jays
only got off one shot in the final 2:11 and Falk and Ross each went 2-for-2 from
the free-throw line to set the final margin.
Hartman
continued her strong early-season play for the Bullets with four points, four
rebounds, two assists and two steals off the bench.
Gettysburg
returns to action in its Centennial Conference opener at Ursinus on Tuesday. Game times is 7 p.m.
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