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GETTYSBURG,
Pa. – Kristy Costa scored a game-high
22 points and sparked a key second-half run to help No. 25 McDaniel defeat Gettysburg
74-66 in Centennial Conference (CC) women’s basketball action on Tuesday.Costa
went 5-for-8 from the field and netted five of her six free throws in the second
half to help the Green Terror (18-2, 12-1 CC) stretch its winning streak to 14
games. The Bullets (10-9, 7-5 CC) fall to a CC top-ranked team for the second
game in a less than a week.
Jen
Bengel (Timonium, MD/Roland Park Country), who led four Bullets in double
figures, recorded her fourth double-double
of the year with 20 points and a game-high 12 rebounds.
Elizabeth
Ross (Chestertown, MD/St. Andrew’s School [DE]) put Gettysburg up by three with 1 minute, 52 seconds
remaining in the game after netting two free throws that proved to be the Bullets’
final points of the game.
On
the next possession, Costa dropped a jumper to bring the Green Terror within one
before Heather Thompson converted twice from the charity stripe
to put McDaniel up for good at 67-66.
A
couple negative Bullet possessions led to the Green Terror registering 7-for-8
from the free-throw line to close the game with an eight-point advantage.
McDaniel
outshot the Bullets 49-27 in the second half and jumped
to a 22-6 run after halftime to erase the Bullet lead in 8 minutes, 40 seconds.
Bengel
and Ross each provided four points to help Gettysburg
jump to a quick 11-3 lead in the first five minutes of the contest.
Emily
Falk (Boiling Springs, PA/Boiling
Springs)
poured in her five points and treys from Katie Eiden
(Silver Spring, MD/Georgetown Visitation) and Jamie Marshall (Pottsville, PA/Nativity
BVM) extended the Bullet lead to 22-8 with 12:20 left in the half.
Gettysburg enjoyed its largest lead at
18 with 9:42 to go in the first stanza, but a 3-pointer from Kelly Cramp
and a made jumper by Costa helped the Green Terror work to close the half in 14-point
deficit.
Marshall made three from beyond the arc to finish with
12 points while Ross and Kathryn Reilly (Ridgewood,
NJ/Ridgewood)
each chipped in 10. Ross also pulled down eight boards.
Thompson
had 15 points and a team-high seven rebounds for McDaniel.
Gettysburg
returns to action on Saturday at Muhlenberg. Game time is 4 p.m.
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