THE FACTS
No. 23 Gettysburg (23-3) 74, Dickinson (19-8) 48
What: Centennial Conference (CC) tournament semifinal
When: Friday, Feb. 23
Where: Gettysburg, Pa.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg, ranked 23rd in the latest D3hoops.com poll, raced out to a 20-5 first-quarter lead and extended the lead to as large as 29 in the first half and 38 for the game in a 74-58 win over Dickinson in one of the Centennial Conference (CC) semifinals.
THE LEADERS
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Mackenzie Szlosek (Holtsville, N.Y./Sachem East) led all scorers with 16 points to finish with exactly 1,000 points for her career.
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Shinya Lee (Rochester, N.Y./Holderness Prep School) added a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds. She also had three assists and a blocked shot.
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Alayna Arnolie (Vienna, Va./James Madison) added 14 points, three assists and three steals.
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Emily Violante (Easton, Pa./Easton Area) rounded out a quartet of double-digit scorers with 11 points.
FOR THE FOES
• Clair Marion led the Red Devils with 14 points.
• Caitlin Blackman added 13 points and seven rebounds.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• A pair of
Mackenzie Szlosek triples and five points from Alayna Arnole staked Gettysburg to a 12-0 lead in the game. Abby John finally got Dickinson on the board with a second-chance layup at the 3:51 mark of the first quarter. Arnolie, however, responded with a 3-pointer to push the lead to 13. After Caitlin Blackman capped a trey of her own, Szlosek hit a layup and
Kimberly Hopkins (Baldwin, N.Y./Sacred Heart Academy) drained a corner triple just before the period expired for a 20-5 advantage.
• The Bullets started the second quarter on an 11-3 run to extend the advantage to 22 on an Arnolie jumper with 6:42 showing. The lead swelled to 38-10 on an Arnolie trey nearly four minutes later before a
Marah McHugh (West Chester, Pa./Villa Maria Academy) three-point play with 49 ticks remaining made it a 43-14 game. Ella Smith responded with a layup to make it a 27-point game at the break.
• The lead ballooned to 33 just 2:32 into the third quarter on a
Shinya Lee jumper. A Szlosek fast-break layup made it a 62-24 game with 2:55 to play in the period and gave the junior 999 points for her career. Gettysburg took a 65-31 lead into the final 10 minutes.
• Dickinson closed to within 66-40 before Szlosek thought she had her 1,000th point on a steal-and-layup with a foul called at the 4:18 mark but the officials ruled the foul took place before the shot, giving Gettysburg the ball under the basket. On a second-chance opportunity, Szlosek once again drew a foul but this time was shooting two free throws. After missing the first, she hit the second with 3:07 remaining for the milestone point and the Red Devils got no closer than 26 the rest of the way.
THE INSIDE STORY
• Sunday's championship game will take place at Johns Hopkins. It is the third straight year that the two teams meet in the title tilt.
• Caitlin Priore (Holland, Pa./Germantown Academy) added seven rebounds and three blocked shots to go with her four points and three assists.
NEXT UP
Game time on Sunday is 3 p.m.
