THE FACTS
No. 12 Gettysburg (13-1, 3-0 CC) 54, No. 22 Johns Hopkins (9-3, 3-1) 44
What: Centennial Conference (CC) women's basketball game
When: Saturday, Jan. 11
Where: Gettysburg, Pa.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg, ranked 12th in the latest D3hoops.com poll, built a 15-point lead late in the second quarter and never let No. 22 Johns Hopkins get closer than seven over the final three quarters of the game for a 54-44 win in a key early-season Centennial Conference showdown.
THE LEADERS
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Shinya Lee (Rochester, N.Y./Holderness Prep School) led the Bullets with 11 points, 13 rebounds, four blocked shots and three steals. She recorded nine of those points and nine of those rebounds in a defensive lockdown in the second half.
FOR THE FOES
• Michaela O'Neil finished a rebound shy of a double-double for the Blue Jays with 10 points and nine boards. She also had two assists, three blocks and a steal.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• A pair of second-chance layups from Greta Miller staked Johns Hopkins to a 4-0 lead in the game's first 1:17.
Kimberly Hopkins (Baldwin, N.Y./Sacred Heart Academy) drove to the hoop to get Gettysburg on the board with 7:50 showing and
Alayna Arnolie (Vienna, Va./James Madison) drained a 3-pointer from the wing for the hosts first lead with 7:16 on the clock. The Blue Jays went back up three but
AB Holsinger (Charlottesville, Va./Langley) hit a triple of her own to tie the game and a
Reagan Chrencik (New Hope, Pa./New Hope-Solebury) connected on a layup to give the Bullets the lead for good with 4:04 to play in the opening period. Five points from
Jameson Mott (Evergreen, Colo./Evergreen) extended the run to 10-0 over a 2-minute, 48-second stretch.
• Up 16-10 after 10 minutes,
Skylar Reale (Warren, N.J./Morristown Beard) scored on the break and Holsinger canned another trey for a double-digit lead just 1:38 into the second quarter. The lead remained between eight and 13 points until an
Emily Violante (Easton, Pa./Easton Area) putback sparked a 6-0 burst that opened up the largest lead of the game at 33-18 with 2:12 to play in the second quarter. Layups from Layla Henderson and Miller in the final 73 seconds closed the deficit to 11 at the break.
• After Macie Feldman made it single digits off a Michaela O'Neil steal and dish just 14 seconds into the second half, the teams traded points over the next five minutes until Violante and Lee scored on back-to-back possessions to extend the lead out to 42-28 with 3:37 remaining in the third quarter. Feldman scored three points down the stretch in the third to return the deficit to 11 entering the final period.
• Lee and Mott each hit from short range in the opening 1:16 of the final quarter to make it a 46-31 game. Trailing 48-34, O'Neil hit Johns Hopkins' first 3-pointer of the game with 3:00 to play before a single Henderson free throw and a second O'Neil triple cut the margin to seven just a minute later. Lee, however, had the answer at the other end to make it a 50-41 lead with just 1:27 remaining and Arnolie went 4-for-4 from the line in the final 22 seconds to seal the 10-point win.
THE INSIDE STORY
• With the four blocked shots,
Shinya Lee became the seventh player in conference history with 200 career blocks and now has 202 for her career.
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Alayna Arnolie and
AB Holsinger each added 10 points. Arnolie chipped in five assists and four steals while Holsinger had three helpers.
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Jameson Mott chipped in nine points to go with career highs of seven rebounds and four assists.
• The Gettysburg defense held Johns Hopkins to a season-worst 29 percent shooting and to fewer than 50 points for the first time this season.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action at home against Franklin & Marshall on Wednesday. Game time is 6 p.m.
