Box Score
GETTYSBURG,
Pa. – Elizabeth Ross (Chestertown, MD/St. Andrew’s
[DE]) scored her fifth double-double of the season with 19 points and
10 rebounds to lead the Gettysburg women’s basketball team to a 71-58 win
over Franklin & Marshall in Centennial Conference (CC) action on Tuesday.The
win, which marked head coach Mike Kirkpatrick’s
200th coaching victory, was the Bullets’ (4-3, 2-2 CC) second
conference win this season and avenges a 74-69 loss to the Diplomats (1-6, 1-2
CC) a year ago.
Jen Bengel (Timonium, MD/Roland Park
Country School) netted a game-high 21 points, including 9-for-10 from
the free-throw line, while Katie Eiden (Silver Springs, MD/Georgetown
Visitation) registered 11 points for the Bullets.
Maura Lentz
led the Franklin & Marshall with 19 points, including four treys, and seven
rebounds.
Gettysburg
dominated play from the beginning when Bengel dropped
a jumper in the first seconds of the game then Emily
Falk (Boiling Springs, PA/Boiling Springs) drilled a three-pointer for
a 5-0 lead less than two minutes into the game.
With
her team down early, Lentz scored a jumper and a 3-pointer to bring F&M within
three. Christy Strunk
converted a three-point play to knot the game at 11 and a good layup by Emily Weaver
gave the Diplomats their first lead of the day with 13:10 to go in the half.
The
teams rallied back and forth until Bengel made
a layup with 10:30 remaining in the first half and put
the Bullets up for good. Powered by Bengel’s 10 points, Gettysburg
closed the half up 30-20.
Strunk scored her second triple to open up the second half,
but the Bullets to over with Ross and Kathryn
Reilly (Ridgewood, NJ/Ridgewood) combining for the eight of the next 11
points, claiming a 12-point advantage with 15:41 left to play.
Gettysburg opened up its biggest lead of the night 55-37 with just
over seven minutes remaining after Bengel dropped
two from the charity stripe.
Fueled
by Lentz, the Diplomats edged back bringing the game within seven with a minute
left to play, but six made free throws for Ross and two by Jamie Marshall (Pottsville, PA/Nativity B.V.M.) kept Gettysburg
ahead at the conclusion of the game.
Reilly
also added eight points and seven boards while Falk chipped in eight.
F&M’s Dana Johns
tallied 10 points while Lauren Dodrill grabbed 10 rebounds.
The
Bullets return to action on Saturday at Messiah. Game time is 3 p.m.
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