Box Score

FROSTBURG, Md. – Gettysburg made it two-for-two to open the 2009-10 women's basketball season, downing host Frostburg State University 63-56 in the championship game of the Jim Crawley Tip-Off Tournament on Saturday.

Junior Caitlin Moser (Wyomissing, Pa./Wyomissing) was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player after combining for 30 points in two games, including 10 in the title tilt. Senior Courtney Fields (Baltimore, Md./St. Paul's School for Girls) was also tagged all-tournament and put up nine points and six boards against Frostburg (2-1).

After blowing out Wilkes University 83-40 in its opening contest on Friday, Gettysburg (2-0) jumped out with another hot start on Saturday by running off the championship game's first nine points, capped with an old-fashioned three-point play by junior guard Mary Spicer (Floral Park, N.Y./Sacred Heart Academy) at 15:59.

The Bobcats weathered the storm and clawed their way back into the game, eventually pulling to 15-14 with 8:49 on the first-half clock. The Bullets fired right back with a 11-2 run initiated by a three-pointer and lay-up by Fields to regain the momentum and jump ahead by 10 (26-16) with under five minutes left in the half.

Once again, Frostburg charged back and sliced the deficit to one point on a lay-up by Elizabeth Carrington with 25 ticks left, but Moser upped the advantage to three (30-27) with a jumper in the waning seconds of the half.

The start of the second half was all Orange & Blue as the visitors reeled off the first eight points, six coming from sophomore Lauren Dadigan (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley), to jumped ahead 38-27 just 1:40 into the period. Gettysburg led by as many as 16 in the final stanza and did not let the margin dip below nine until the final seconds of the game.

Gettysburg shot over 50 percent in the contest, canning 23-of-45 (.511) attempts. The Bullets were also near-perfect from the charity stripe with only one miss in 16 attempts.

Dadigan led a well-rounded scoring effort by the Bullets with a perfect effort from the floor. She was 5-of-5 from the field and canned both free throw attempts for a career-high 12 points. Not to be out-done, classmate Sara Kinsley (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Ludlowe) was one off her personal best with 11 points on 5-of-7 shooting.

Spicer finished with just the one field goal, but she was perfect from the line in seven attempts for nine points. Senior Allie Drechsler (Westminster, Md./Winters Mill) took a stab at a triple-double before closing with seven points, eight assists, six rebounds, and three steals.

Caryn Wright led Frostburg with a dozen tallies and Elizabeth Carrington posted 11.

Next up for Gettysburg is a non-conference date with York (Pa.) College on Tuesday, Nov. 24, at 6 p.m., as part of a doubleheader with the men's team.