THE FACTS
No. 15 Gettysburg (1-0) 78, Eastern (0-2) 42
What: Non-conference women's basketball game
When: Monday, Nov. 11
Where: St. David's, Pa.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg, ranked 15th in the D3hoops.com preseason poll, used a 23-7 second quarter to build a 20-point halftime lead and defeat Eastern 78-42 in the team's season opener.
THE LEADERS
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Mackenzie Szlosek (Holtsville, N.Y./Sachem East) led the Bullets with a career-high 25 points, going 8-for-14 from the floor and 8-for-8 from the line. She also added five rebounds, two assists and two steals in just 23 minutes.
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Shinya Lee (Rochester, N.Y./Holderness Prep School) chipped in eight points, 14 rebounds and six blocked shots.
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Alayna Arnolie (Vienna, Va./James Madison) connected on 6 of 10 shots for 13 points, adding three rebounds, two assists and a steal.
FOR THE FOES
• Kayla Worsley-Wooten led the Eagles with 12 points, going 4 of 7 from 3-point range.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• Kayla Worsley-Wooten it a 3-pointer to open the scoring and stake Eastern to 3-0 lead just 32 seconds in to the game. A second triple made it a 6-2 game. Trailing 8-4,
Alayna Arnolie hit a long jumper to spark a 10-0 that put Gettysburg in front 14-8 midway through the opening period. The teams traded buckets the rest of the period and the Bullets took a 20-16 advantage through 10 minutes.
• After Arnolie hit a driving layup and Worsley-Wooten responded with a triple to make it a 22-1 game just 70 seconds into the second quarter, Gettysburg outscored the Eagles 21-4 over the final eight minutes of the period to take a 43-23 lead into the break.
Kimberly Hopkins (Baldwin, N.Y./Sacred Heart Academy) hit one free throw with 7:55 on the clock and then the Bullets hit seven of their next 10 field goals and went 6 of 9 from the line to break the game wide open. Mackezie Szlosek contributed nine of her 17 first-half points during the run.
• Gettysburg scored the first 18 points of the third quarter to extend the lead to 61-23 with 2:59 showing. Szlosek had eight of those points. In total, the Bullets scored 28 straight points and held Eastern without a point for 10 minutes, 7 seconds and without a field goal for 11 minutes, 40 seconds until Jeriyah Johnson got a friendly bounce on a pull-up with 2:29 showing in the third quarter. After a 23-7 second quarter, Gettysburg outscored its hosts 23-6 in the third quarter to take a 66-29 advantage to the final period.
• The lead grew to 40 for the first time on a
Skylar Reale (Warren, N.J./Morristown Beard) with 7:19 to play. Eastern scored eight straight points before
Tatum Murray (Newton, Mass./Newton South) drained a triple with 3:17 remaining en route to the 36-point final margin.
THE INSIDE STORY
• Gettysburg shot 55.2 percent in the first half.
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Emily Violante (Easton, Pa./Easton Area) chipped in six points, five rebounds and five assists.
• The Bullets finished with a 54-29 rebounding advantage and held Eastern to just 24.1 percent shooting, limiting the hosts to just seven made field goals over the final 30 minutes of the game.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action against Randolph-Macon in the opening game of the Jean Beamer Tip-Off Classic hosted by Roanoke on Saturday. Game time is 8 p.m.
