Box Score
HAVERFORD,
Pa. – Elizabeth Ross (Chestertown, MD/St. Andrew’s [DE]) scored
19 points and Kathryn Reilly (Ridgewood, NJ/Ridgewood) added a career-high
16 as Gettysburg pulled away for an 80-54 win at Haverford in Centennial Conference
(CC) women’s basketball action on Saturday. Ross
hit 8 of 15 shots on the day and also pulled down a team-best seven rebounds,
helping the Bullets (10-8, 7-4 CC) turn a 32-31 second-half lead into a 26-point
victory, their 14th win in 14 all-time meetings with the Fords (3-14, 0-11
CC). Reilly went 8-for-10 from the floor, adding six rebounds and three assists.
Katie Crowley led Haverford with 10 points
while Bea Chang added nine.
The
two teams battled through six ties and seven lead changes in the first half before
Gettysburg took command.
Katie
Eiden (Silver Spring, MD/Georgetown Visitation) put the Bullets ahead
to stay at 30-27 with a 3-pointer late in the first half, but Kendra Smythe
hit a layup at the buzzer and Claire Scribner opened the second half with a basket
to keep the Fords within 32-31.
Ross
answered by feeding Reilly for a jumper then adding a layup of her own, touching
off a 10-0 run in fewer than two minutes. Eiden capped the stretch with a layup
to give Gettysburg its first double-digit lead of the game, 42-31.
Erica Juliano’s layup pulled Haverford within
50-40, but the Bullets scored 29 of the game’s next 37 points. Cat Arnold’s
(Huntington, VT/Mt. Mansfield Union) jumper made it 65-45 and Kate
Greenwood (Bel Air, MD/Fallston) gave Gettysburg its largest lead at 79-48
with two free throws and a jumper with 2:58 left. The Bullets shot 18-for-35 from
the floor in the second half.
Chang
went 4-for-5 and scored all nine of her points in the first half. Meredith
Foote gave the Fords their last lead of the game at 26-23, drilling a
3-pointer with 4:32 remaining before the intermission.
Neither team built a lead larger than four points until the final
minute of the first half when a jumper from Ross made it 32-27 Gettysburg.
Ross’ 19-point outing propelled her into 11th place on
the program’s all-time scoring list with 934 career points, passing former teammate
Jay Hodge (929 points from 1999-2003).
Emily
Falk (Boiling Springs, PA/Boiling Springs) added nine points in the win.
Bullet freshman Megan Hartman (Lewistown, PA/Indian Valley) dished
out a team-high six assists in her first collegiate start.
Gettysburg returns to action on Tuesday at home against
McDaniel. Game time is 7 p.m.
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