Box Score
CARLISLE, Pa.
– Dickinson’s Megan Shelley sank four of her six free-throw attempts
in the game’s final minute to keep Gettysburg at bay and preserve a 57-54 Centennial
Conference (CC) women’s basketball victory on Wednesday.
Shelley finished the night with a team-high 15 points for
the Red Devils (15-1, 10-1 CC), who ran their program-best winning streak to 11
games.
Jen Bengel (Timonium, MD/Roland
Park Country Day School) led the Bullets (9-8, 6-4
CC) with a game-high 20 points on 10-for-21 shooting from
the field.
Gettysburg,
which entered the night as the CC’s top free-throw shooting team (71 percent),
connected on just 4 of 19 attempts from the line, including 2-for-11 in the second
half.
After Bengel connected
on a jumper with 15:32 remaining in the contest to put the Bullets in front 34-31,
Jen Reitmeyer converted both of her free throws to spark a 5-0 burst
that put Dickinson ahead by two.
Katie
Eiden (Silver Spring, MD/Georgetown Visitation) nailed her only basket
of the night with 12:15 remaining to tie the game at 36.
Reitmeyer scored four straight points for the Red Devils
to push the advantage to 40-36 with 10:44 to play.
Consecutive jumpers from Bengel and Emily Falk (Boiling
Springs, PA/Boiling Springs) once again knotted the game at 40.
After Eiden tied the game for the final time at 44 with
Gettysburg’s only two made free throws of the second half, Reitmeyer responded
with her fourth bucket of the game.
Carly
Onkotz and Patrice Johnson each converted 1 of 2 free throws
and Bengel answered with a jumper to keep it a two-point game.
A Jessica Howard steal off a Bullet inbound
with 3:30 to play led directly to a Johnson 3-pointer – one of only two made in
the game by either team – to stretch the margin to 51-46.
Kathryn Reilly (Ridgewood, NJ/Ridgewood)
hit a jumper, but Gettysburg missed all four free-throws attempts over the next
two minutes to keep it a three-point game.
Despite
two baskets from Elizabeth Ross (Chestertown, MD/St. Andrew’s School [DE])
and one from Bengel in the game’s final minute, Shelley’s four free throws coupled
with an Allyson Teatom layup gave the Red Devils their second win
over the Bullets in the last 18 meetings between the teams.
Bengel and Ross both finished the night with double-doubles
for Gettysburg. Ross tallied 10 points and grabbing a season high-tying 15 boards
while Bengel added 11 rebounds to her 20 points.
Reitmeyer,
connecting on 4 of 6 shots from the floor and 4 of 4 from the free-throw line,
finished with 12 points for Dickinson.
Gettysburg
returns to action on Saturday at Haverford. Game time is 2 p.m.
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