Box Score
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Whitney Davis
scored a career-high 31 points and Ashanna Randall added 21 as 12th-ranked
Johns Hopkins used a 57-point second half to subdue Gettysburg 98-74 in Centennial
Conference (CC) women’s basketball action on Tuesday.
Davis hit 11 of 14 shots from the field, including five
3-pointers, keying an 11-2 first-half run and a 26-6 second-half burst that gave
the Blue Jays (5-0, 2-0 CC) their ninth straight win over the Bullets (3-2, 1-1
CC). Randall went 10-for-12 from the floor along with seven rebounds.
Jen Bengel (Timonium, MD/Roland Park Country School)
scored 17 of her team-high 20 points in the second half for Gettysburg, which
came up short in head coach Mike Kirkpatrick’s first bid for his
200th coaching victory. Elizabeth Ross (Chestertown, MD/St. Andrew’s [DE])
added 17 points.
The lead changed
hands nine times through a back-and-forth first half before Johns Hopkins took
control with a late run.
With
her team down 34-30, Randall converted a layup to start an 11-2 burst. The Blue
Jays never trailed after Julie Miller converted a 3-point play with
2:05 left in the half and Davis added six consecutive points to make it 41-34.
Amy Tarbell (East Greenwich, RI/East Greenwich)
cut the Bullets’ deficit to 41-36 with a jumper in the final six seconds.
Following a 3-pointer from Katie Kimball
to open the second half, Gettysburg rattled off the next eight points to knot
the game at 44 with 18:24 remaining. JHU’s Alissa Burkholder and
Jamie Marshall (Pottsville, PA/Nativity B.V.M.) traded 3-pointers
to tie the game for the final time at 47.
From
there, the Blue Jays used a 26-6 run over the next 7 minutes, 49 seconds to seal
the win.
Two baskets from Randall
and one from Burkholder snapped the tie and gave Johns Hopkins a 53-47 lead. Ross
and Bengel countered with buckets to cut the deficit to two, but the Blue Jays
responded with 20 of the game’s next 22 points.
Randall
and Ashley Felix converted back-to-back 3-point plays to make it
59-51 and Randall drilled a jumper for the visitors’ first double-digit lead of
the night. After Emily Falk (Boiling Springs, PA/Boiling Springs)
hit a layup to pull the Bullets within 61-53, Davis rang up 12 straight points
in the next 90 seconds, starting and ending the streak with a 3-pointer to make
it 73-53 with 9:04 left.
The
Blue Jays led by as many as 27 points after two Katie Burns free
throws made it 96-69 with 2:52 remaining.
Powered
by 14 points from Ross, Gettysburg maintained a lead late deep into the first
half. Ross hit two layups during an 8-0 run that turned a 24-21 deficit into a
29-24 advantage – the Bullets’ largest of the night – with 4:19 remaining before
the break.
Felix finished with
nine points, a game-high 10 rebounds, four assists and three steals for Johns
Hopkins, which improved to 22-2 in its last 24 meetings with Gettysburg. The Blue
Jays’ 98 points was the program’s highest single-game total in 46 meetings with
the Bullets.
Kathryn
Reilly (Ridgewood, NJ/Ridgewood) added eight points while leading the
hosts with eight rebounds and five assists.
Gettysburg
returns to action on Saturday at defending CC champion McDaniel. Game time is
1 p.m.
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