Box Score
WESTMINSTER, Md. - Sara Franz scored a game-high
13 points as 21st-ranked McDaniel built a 26-point halftime
lead and cruised to a 77-40 win over Gettysburg in Centennial
Conference (CC) women's basketball action on Tuesday.
Current
CC Player of the Week Kristy Costa added 12
points and Kelly Cramp chipped in with 11
for the Green Terror, who connected on 21 of 36 first-half
shots to win their 11th consecutive game and stay perfect
in CC play. The win was the 12th for McDaniel (16-2, 12-0)
in its last 15 meetings with the Bullets (9-11, 6-7 CC),
including nine straight at home.
Elizabeth
Ross (Chestertown, MD/St. Andrew's [DE]) was the
lone Gettysburg player to reach double digits on the night,
scoring 12 points and pulling down a team-high seven rebounds.
Jen Bengel (Timonium, MD/Roland Park Country School)
and Kathryn Reilly (Ridgewood, NJ/Ridgewood)
added nine points apiece for the Bullets, who hit only 12
of 57 shots for a season-low .211 field-goal percentage.
Combining
a strong inside game with high-energy defense, the Green
Terror jumped to an early lead and never looked back.
After
Ross opened the scoring on Gettysburg's first possession,
McDaniel converted eight of its first nine shots - including
seven layups - to build a 16-6 lead with little more than
five and a half minutes gone. Costa scored six points in
the run, two coming on a steal-and-breakaway combination.
Two
free throws by Jamie Marshall (Pottsville, PA/Nativity
B.V.M.) cut the margin to 16-8, but the Green Terror
lead would stay in double figures the rest of the way after
a Cramp jumper at the 13:19 mark made it 18-8.
Franz
hit two more layups as McDaniel pushed the lead to 26-10
with 11:33 left in the first half. Neither team scored again
for nearly four minutes, before Heather Thompson
converted 1 of 2 free throws and McIntire broke the Green
Terror's 0-for-6 mini-slump with a jumper at 7:21.
Jacqueline
Pundt scored around the basket to push the lead
past 20 for the first time at 33-12. Three Reilly free throws
cut the deficit to 42-22, but McDaniel scored the final
six points of the half, including a 3-pointer by Katy
Powell as time expired.
Both
teams combined to shoot a mere 10-for 57 (18 percent) from
the floor after halftime. The Green Terror, however, used
a 15-for-18 showing at the free-throw line to finish with
a 37-point victory, the largest for either team in the series
since the CC's inception in 1993.
Pundt
and Thompson each finished with nine points for McDaniel.
McIntire led the squad with eight rebounds and five assists.
The
Bullets return to action on Saturday at Muhlenberg. Game
time is 2 p.m.
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