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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Gettysburg outscored Washington College 17-4 to start the game and cruised to a 58-40 victory in Centennial Conference women's basketball action Saturday afternoon in Bream Gymnasium.

Freshman forward Jessica Porter (Narberth, Pa./Lower Merion) scored a game- and season-high 20 points for the second game in a row for the Bullets (7-4, 4-2 CC), who pushed their winning streak to three since returning from Christmas break. She also tied a game-high with seven rebounds. Junior forward Caroline Murphy (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) contributed 15 points while junior guard Cori Younghans (Succasunna, N.J./Roxbury) posted nine points off the bench.

Ashley Espinosa paced Washington (6-6, 4-3 CC) with 10 points, seven rebounds, and four steals.

Gettysburg trailed just once on the afternoon – when Espinosa hit a jumper 1:25 into the contest to make it 2-0. Four different Bullets scored on their game-opening run, with Porter netting 10 points during the stretch. Porter, who also scored Gettysburg's first 13 points in its Days Inn Tournament championship-game victory over Gwynedd-Mercy on Thursday, gave her team its early 17-4 lead with a conventional 3-point lead with 13:57 on the clock.

Washington used a 7-0 spurt midway through the half to cut a 14-point deficit in half (20-13) with 8:22 on the clock, but the Bullets would close the stanza on a 7-2 surge and assumed a 29-17 lead at the intermission.

Murphy scored nine of the team's final 11 points of the half. She had 11 points at the break while Porter led all players with 13 first-half points.

The Bullets lead ballooned to 16 with 16:15 left following a 3-pointer from junior guard Alyssa Isler (New Hope, Pa./New Hope-Solebury). However, a 10-2 Washington run reduced the deficit to single digits (39-31) with 11:13 remaining. But the Shorewomen were unable to draw any closer, and a late 11-2 run inside the final minutes sealed the win for Gettysburg.

Isler tallied eight points for the game while sophomore forward Jenna Swope (Warminster, Pa./Archbishop Wood) notched six rebounds and a career-high four assists.

Gettysburg picks up its schedule on Tuesday, when it visits Ursinus College at 6 p.m. in another Centennial Conference tilt.