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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – It wasn't very pretty, but the Gettysburg College women's basketball team did enough to earn its fifth-straight victory to start the season, downing visiting Haverford College 59-50 in Centennial Conference action inside Bream Gym Thursday night.

Gettysburg (5-0, 2-0 CC) shot a season-low 32.3 percent and committed 22 turnovers, but the hosts never trailed en route to tying the second-best start in school history. Junior Caitlin Moser (Wyomissing, Pa./Wyomissing) led the bullets with 14 points, while freshman Lisa Ridgeway (King of Prussia, Pa./Upper Merion) burst off the bench for a season-high 11 points.

The Orange and Blue came into Thursday's affair without a blemish in the series against Haverford (2-3, 1-2 CC), but the Fords ignored that fact completely and kept the score within two possessions for the majority of the first half. Freshman Nina Voith cut the Bullet advantage to 25-23 after converting a four-point play at 6:18.

Gettysburg capitalized on each of its next four possessions to open up 10-point lead (33-23) at 4:40. Ridgeway was at the center of the spurt, knocking down a pair of shots and dishing out an assist. The Bullets extended the advantage to a dozen points before Haverford turned in the final four points of the period to cut the lead to 36-28 at the break.

Both Gettysburg and Haverford shot at a respectable clip of about 40 percent in the opening stanza, but those percentages would be cut in half in the second half as the teams struggled to find the touch. The two teams combined for just nine field goals in 45 second-half attempts (20 percent).

Haverford pulled to within five early in the second half before five consecutive Bullet free throws put the score at 41-31 with 16:39 to play. The lead was whittled down to six twice in the remaining time, the last instance coming at 7:40 following a pair of free throws by Voith. A Moser jumper and a pair of free throws by sophomore Lauren Dadigan (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley) pushed the lead back to 10 (51-41) at 6:24 and the Fords would pull no closer than eight the rest of the way.

Ridgeway was the game's most accurate shooter by far, nailing 4-of-5 attempts from the floor and a pair of free throws. Moser finished 5-of-13 from the field and 4-of-4 at the charity stripe, adding six rebounds and a career-high seven steals. Dadigan narrowly missed double figures with eight points, while sophomore Sara Kinsley (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Ludlowe) nabbed a game-high 10 rebounds. Junior Mary Spicer (Floral Park, N.Y./Sacred Heart Academy) chimed in with six points, six rebounds, and six assists. 

Voith finished with a game-high 22 points, shooting 6-of-13 from the field and 9-of-11 at the free throw line. She tied Calla Miller for team honors with seven boards, while Dominique Meeks added eight points, six boards, and seven steals.

Gettysburg looks to add another victory this Saturday as the Bullets host Bryn Mawr College (1-4, 0-2 CC) Saturday, Dec. 5, at 1 p.m.