Box Score
BALTIMORE,
Md. – Elizabeth Ross (Chestertown,
MD/St. Andrew’s School [DE]) hit a jumper with 16 seconds remaining
for Gettysburg’s final points of the night to give her 1,001 career points
in the Bullets’ 70-52 loss at Johns Hopkins in Centennial Conference (CC)
women’s basketball action on Wednesday.Entering
the night needing seven points, Ross tallied eight to become Gettysburg’s
ninth 1,000-point scorer.
Alissa Burkholder netted a team-high
15 points to lead the Blue Jays (19-4, 14-2 CC) to their 17th straight
victory over the Bullets (12-11, 9-7 CC), who shot a season-low 28.3 percent from
the floor.
Trailing 7-5 after Jamie
Marshall’s (Pottsville, PA/Nativity B.V.M.) lone 3-pointer of the
game with 14:18 to play in the first half, Julie
Miller nailed a pair of free throws to pull Johns Hopkins even and spark
a 15-1 run over the next 7 minutes, 31 seconds to put the Blue Jays up 20-8 with
6:18 showing.
Katie
O’Malley – the catalyst during the charge – had a hand
in the first three Johns Hopkins’ baskets of the stretch.
She
hit a jumper at the 13:40 mark to put the Blue Jays ahead to stay. Her steal three
possessions later led to an Ashanna Randall layup
before she found Cheyenne Smith
for a jumper on the next Hopkins
possession.
Following the Bullets’
second timeout in a three-and-a-half minute span, Amy
Tarbell (East Greenwich,
RI/East Greenwich) laid home a Katie
Eiden (Silver Spring, MD/Georgetown Visitation)
assist at the 5:28 to snap an 8-minute, 50-second Gettysburg drought from the floor.
Caught
in a 25-15 game on a Jen Bengel (Timonium, MD/Roland Park Country
School) layup, the two teams combined for 16
of the 56 points in the half’s final 2:01.
Randall
started the seesaw ending to the stanza with a layup. Bengel had the response.
Two
additional free throws from Bengel answered a Burkholder
trey before Burkholder countered with another basket.
Emily
Falk (Boiling Springs, PA/Boiling
Springs) knocked down her second of a career high-matching four triples
with 17 seconds remaining to pull the Bullets within 32-22.
Nine
seconds later, Brooke Strange
made it a 34-22 Blue Jay lead entering the locker room.
Seven
points from Kathryn Reilly (Ridgewood,
NJ/Ridgewood), including 5 of 6 from the charity stripe, led an 14-11
charge over the first seven minutes of the second half to pull Gettysburg within
nine, but the Bullets could get no closer the rest of the way.
Falk
finished the night with a team-best 15 points, including a perfect 4-for-4 from
behind the arc. Reilly added 13 for Gettysburg, which dropped to fifth place in the CC standings
by virtue of a 63-43 Swarthmore victory over Washington.
Bengel
finished with a game-high 12 rebounds while Ross added 11 to her milestone night.
Gettysburg
returns to action on Saturday at home against Swarthmore. Game time is 4 p.m.
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