Box Score
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Gettysburg’s starting
frontcourt combined for 37 points and the Bullets shot a season-best 54.4 percent
from the field in a 68-44 Centennial Conference (CC) women’s basketball victory
over Bryn Mawr on Monday. Elizabeth
Ross (Chestertown, MD/St. Andrew’s [DE]) led the way with 15 points, connecting
on 7 of 10 shots as Gettysburg (9-7, 6-3 CC) improved to 13-0 all-time against
the Owls (1-15, 0-10 CC). Jen Bengel (Timonium, MD/Roland Park Country School)
added 12 points and Kathryn Reilly (Ridgewood, NJ/Ridgewood) chipped
in with 10.
The Bullets’ top
scoring trio went 18-for-30 from the floor and also combined for 20 rebounds and
10 assists.
Bryn Mawr’s Deb
Charamella led all scorers with 20 points and dished out four assists,
moving within five of that program’s career record of 326. Amy Johnson
also hit double digits with 11 points.
Gettysburg’s forwards got the ball rolling. On the Bullets’ first possession of
the game, Ross fed Bengel for an 18-foot jumper. On Gettysburg’s next trip, Ross
set up Reilly for a jumper from the free throw line.
Ross started her scoring night on the Bullets’ third opportunity,
taking a handoff from Reilly and knocking down a third-chance 17-footer to make
it 6-0.
Johnson put back a
rebound for the Owls’ first points of the game, but Gettysburg stretched the lead
to double digits with a meandering 10-2 run over the next 6 minutes, 17 seconds.
Hillary Prutzman (Bethlehem, PA/Liberty)
knocked down a jumper from the right wing and Jamie Marshall (Pottsville,
PA/Nativity B.V.M.) drilled an 18-footer from left of the circle to start
the run. An inside layup and breakaway basket from Ross made it 16-4. Bengel hit
back-to-back driving buckets for a 20-7 Bullet lead with 10:10 left in the half.
Gettysburg’s offense went silent for the next three and
a half minutes before Ross converted a 3-point play to touch off an 11-0 burst
that made it 31-9, the hosts’ largest lead of the first half.
The Bullets’ margin reached 33 when Sam Pyzik (Westminster,
MD/Mercy) hit the second of two free throws for a 62-29 advantage with
6:02 left.
Bengel’s 12-point
outing left her one point shy of seventh place on the program’s all-time scoring
list. The former All-CC forward closed the night with 1,030 career points. Ross
cruised by the 900-career point mark, finishing the game with 905, 24 points away
from former teammate Jay Hodge (929 from 1999-2003) for 11th place.
Amy Tarbell (East Greenwich, RI/East Greenwich)
chipped in with a season-high eight points off the Gettysburg bench. In addition
to her 10 points, Reilly added six rebounds and handed out a team-high five assists.
The Bullets outscored Bryn Mawr 46-6 in the paint.
Gettysburg, the CC’s fourth-place team at the midpoint
of the conference schedule, returns to action on Wednesday at Dickinson. Game
time is 6 p.m. The Red Devils enter Wednesday’s contest on a program-record 10-game
winning streak.
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