Box Score
CARLISLE,
Pa. –
Playing her final collegiate game, senior Dana Bear
(Lansdale,
PA/Lansdale
Catholic) recorded a season-high 28 points to lift
Gettysburg over
Dickinson 76-61 in Centennial Conference (CC) women's basketball
action on Tuesday.
Bear connected on a career-best
10 field goals to finish one point shy of her collegiate
high – set as a freshman – and end her career
with 1,229 points, good for fourth on the program's all-time
scoring list. Jen Bengel (Timonium, MD/Roland
Park
Country
School) added her 13th double-double for
Gettysburg (11-14, 8-10 CC) with 16 points and 12 rebounds.
Allyson Teatom paced the Red Devils (12-12, 9-9 CC) with 22
points while Piper Etess
added 13 and a team-high nine rebounds.
The
Bullets closed the first half on a 19-3 run to erase a six-point
deficit and take a 37-27 lead into the intermission.
Bear
opened the run, hitting a jumper with 6:08 showing, and Bengel
added a rebound-and-basket before Jamie Marshall (Pottsville, PA/Nativity B.V.M) knotted the game
at 24-all on a jumper with 5:20
to play. Marshall then connected on 1 of 2 free throws to
give Gettysburg
a one-point advantage
Megan
Shelley countered with Dickinson’s
only basket during the stretch to give the Red Devils their
final lead of the night. Bear answered on the next Bullet
possession with a jumper of her own to put the visitors
ahead to stay at 27-26.
An
Emily Falk (Boiling Springs, PA/Boiling Springs) layup and steal-and-bucket from Bear stretched the lead to
31-26 with 3:02
showing.
Bear capped a 15-point
first-half showing with her second fast-break basket of
the decisive run.
Two free throws from Etess
and back-to-back baskets from Teatom
in the first 2:04 cut the Gettysburg
advantage to 37-33. However,
Bear once again had the answer, nailing her second 3-pointer
of the night to push the lead back to 40-33.
Seven straight points from
Patrice Johnson helped cut the lead to 42-38 with 15:05 remaining.
Katie
Eiden (Silver Spring,
MD/Georgetown Visitation) and Bengel accounted for the next nine Bullet
points to open a 13-point advantage with 11:48 and put the
game out of reach. The hosts got no closer than eight the
rest of the way.
Dickinson used a balance attack to open the game on a 11-5 run before Gettysburg countered to take its first lead at 14-13.
Kathryn Reilly (Ridgewood,
NJ/Ridgewood) capped the spurt with her only two first-half
baskets en route to 10 points for the game.
After
Bear added a jumper to push the lead to three, the hosts
netted 11 of the next 13 points to regain a six-point edge
behind four of Julie Younes’
six points.
Johnson
rounded out the double-figure scorers for the Red Devils
with 12 points.
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