Box Score

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Five Bullets scored in double digits, led by senior captain Katie Reilly's (Ridgewood, N.J./Ridgewood) 15, in a 73-63 win against Franklin & Marshall in Centennial Conference (CC) action on Tuesday night at Bream Gymnasium. As a team, the Bullets shot 41.3 percent from the floor and 42.9 percent from long range for the night, nailing nine 3-pointers.

With the victory, Gettysburg (12-8, 9-4 CC) keeps pace with Ursinus and Johns Hopkins, who also pushed their conference records to 9-4 with wins on Tuesday.

Reilly came up one rebound short of her fourth-straight double-double and added a season-high five blocked shots. Over the last four games, Reilly has averaged 13.8 points, 10.3 rebounds and 3.25 blocks. She was joined in double digits by junior guard Megan Hartman (Lewistown, Pa./Indian Valley), who had 13 points and freshman guard Allie Drechsler (Westminster, Md./Winters Mill) with 12 and a career-high eight assists. Freshman forward Courtney Fields (Baltimore, Md./St. Paul's School for Girls) and junior guard Sam Pyzik (Westminster, Md./Mercy), who played 19 minutes off the bench, each had 11.

For the Diplomats (5-14, 4-9 CC), sophomore guard Sarah Meisenberg led all scorers with 22 points. She made half of her 16 shots from the floor, including 5-of-6 (.833) from 3-point range. Classmate Amanda Miceli contributed with a 13-point, 14-rebound double-double, and sophomore forward Miriam Marcis also netted 13.

The Bullets took possession off the opening tip-off, and Hartman converted a layup and a free throw for the traditional three-point play with just 12 seconds gone. Reilly added a layup, and Hartman hit another free throw to give the home team a 6-0 advantage at the 17:16 mark. A little more than a minute later, Franklin & Marshall junior Brittany Braxton hit a jumper to get her team on the board.

After a Drechsler bucket, back-to-back jumpers by Meisenberg and Braxton pulled Franklin & Marshall within two points at 8-6. On their next trip down the floor, the Bullets got a second-chance jumper from Drechsler to start a 7-0 Gettysburg run over the next 1:26. Pyzik made the first of her career-high three 3-pointers, and freshman forward Nicole Dobranski (Albertson, N.Y./Kellenberg Memorial) added a jumper to get the lead to 15-6 with 12:50 to go before the break.

Gettysburg pushed the advantage to 11 points at 21-10 with a jumper from sophomore guard Rachel Steel (Sammamish, Wash./Eastlake) at the 8:27 mark, but the Diplomats kept the Bullets from pulling away. A Reilly layup with 18 seconds to play would get the lead to 11 again at the half, 32-21.

Drechsler opened the second half with a triple, and Fields, who was held off the scoreboard in the opening 20 minutes, added a 3-pointer of her own a little more than two minutes into the second half. Fields posted the best 3-point shooting night of her career, with a career-high-tying three treys on 75 percent shooting from downtown.

A Hartman layup at the 15:59 mark gave Gettysburg its first 18-point lead of the game at 43-25. The Bullets would stretch it to 18 points two more times, but the Diplomats began to chip away.

They would get as close as eight points twice. Marcis, who made three 3-pointers on the night, nailed a trey with 6:55 to go, narrowing the gap to 55-47. She would match the feat with a jumper in the last minute making the score 71-63, but Hartman hit two foul shots to set the final margin.

Gettysburg will return to action on Saturday when the Bullets take on Washington (Md.) in the first game of a Centennial Conference double header at Bream Gymnasium. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.