Box Score

BALTIMORE, Md. – Junior guard Megan Hartman (Lewistown, Pa./Indian Valley) scored a career-high 18 points, and freshman forward Nicole Dobranski (Albertson, N.Y./Kellenberg Memorial) added a personal-best 18 rebounds to lift Gettysburg to a 55-46 win against Johns Hopkins in Centennial Conference (CC) action on Tuesday night at Goldfarb Gymnasium. The victory clinches a berth for the Bullets in the 2007 CC Playoffs and ends an 11-game slide to the Blue Jays dating to the 1999-2000 season.

Gettysburg (15-9, 12-5 CC) saw its leading scorer and rebounder in senior captain Katie Reilly (Ridgewood, N.J./Ridgewood) go to the bench with her second foul with more than 12 minutes to play before halftime. She returned to open the second half, but had her fourth foul 2:15 later. Hartman stepped up to fill the scoring void, and Dobranski exceeded her previous best on the glass by seven boards in posting the Bullets' highest rebound total since Jay Hodge '03 had 20 against Washington (Md.) on Dec. 7, 2002.

Despite playing just 13 minutes, Reilly was a perfect 4-for-4 from the floor and 2-for-2 from the line to score 10 points. She now has 979 career points, leaving her four shy of 10th on Gettysburg's career scoring list.

The Blue Jays (13-9, 11-6 CC) were led by sophomore forward Kristin Phillips, who had a 14-point, 11-rebound double-double. No one else scored more than eight points, however. The two teams were tied for fourth in the CC heading into the night, a place Gettysburg now holds on its own.

In a low-scoring first half, the Bullets managed to assemble a 19-18 lead after the first 20 minutes, connecting on 9-of-25 (.360) field goals. The home squad, meanwhile, shot just 13.9 percent (5-for-36) from the floor. Johns Hopkins made just 13 field goals in the game and was out-rebounded 53-40.

Both teams were slow out of the gates. Gettysburg took a 6-2 lead on a Hartman jumper at the 16:30 mark of the first half, and neither side would score again for nearly three minutes. The Blue Jays slowly clawed back to take a 9-8 lead at the 11:28 mark on a 3-pointer by senior guard Haley Wojdowski. It would be the first of 10 lead changes on the night. Gettysburg used a bucket from Hartman at the other end to start a 9-0 run that gave the visitors a 17-9 advantage, marking their largest lead of the half. Johns Hopkins closed the opening frame on a 9-2 outburst, getting a pair of 3-pointers and a free throw from Phillips to close within one point.

After the intermission, the teams ran neck-and-neck for the first 4:04 until Hartman and Johns Hopkins senior forward Julie Miller exchanged treys for the third and final tie of the contest. The teams went cold for nearly four minutes before Phillips drained a 3-pointer at the 12:17 mark, and senior guard Whitney Davis made two free throws a minute later to give the Blue Jays their largest lead of the game at 31-26.

Johns Hopkins took its final lead on the night when junior forward Andrea Dodrill made a layup with 9:32 to go, but Gettysburg would take over from there.

Drechsler made a jumper with 7:59 left to give the Bullets the lead for good and start a 16-3 run. Over that 6:19 span, five different Gettysburg players scored to put the game out of reach at 48-36 with just 1:40 to go.

Gettysburg will close out the regular season on Saturday as part of a Centennial Conference doubleheader at Dickinson's Kline Center. The opening tip-off is set for 1 p.m., with the Bullet men taking on the Red Devils in the nightcap.