THE FACTS
No. 12 Gettysburg (21-2, 11-1 CC) 71, Haverford (10-13, 4-9 CC) 33
What: Centennial Conference (CC) women's basketball game
When: Saturday, Feb. 15
Where: Haverford, Pa.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg, ranked 12th in the latest D3hoops.com poll, jumped out to a 16-4 first-quarter lead and limited Haverford to just 11 first-half points in a 71-33 victory.
THE LEADERS
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Shinya Lee (Rochester, N.Y./Holderness Prep School) led the Bullets with 15 points and 12 rebounds. She also had three blocked shots.
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Alayna Arnolie (Vienna, Va./James Madison) led all scorers with 16 points to go with five assists and two steals.
FOR THE FOES
• Caroline Orza led the Fords with nine points and eight rebounds.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• Baskets from
Shinya Lee and
Alayna Arnolie staked Gettysburg to a 4-0 lead in the game's first 55 seconds. After Audrey Jakway cut the deficit in half a minute later, Lee hit a pair of free throws with 6:31 showing to spark a 10-0 run to open up a 14-2 lead with 54 seconds to play in the opening period. Abby Ryan and
Reagan Chrencik (New Hope, Pa./New Hope-Solebury) traded buckets in the final 39 seconds to make it 16-4 after 10 minutes.
• Caroline Orza scored the first points of the second quarter but 11 straight from the Bullets opened up a 27-6 lead with 3:06 remaining. Four points from
Tatum Murray (Newton, Mass./Newton South) and two more from Chrencik in the final minute made it 36-11 at the break.
• Holding a 38-15 advantage, a Lee layup with 7:22 on the clock sparked a 12-0 run in just 1 minute, 50 seconds that Arnolie capped with eight straight points, including her only two 3-pointers of the game, to open up a 35-point lead midway through the quarter. The lead grew as large as 36 en route to a 56-24 lead after three periods.
• Haverford never got closer than 31 in the fourth quarter and Gettysburg scored seven of the final nine points for the 38-point victory.
THE INSIDE STORY
• The win clinched a first-round bye in the upcoming Centennial Conference tournament for Gettysburg. The Bullets will host one of the two semifinals on Friday, Feb. 28 and kept pace with Johns Hopkins for a chance at the top seed.
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Reagan Chrencik finished with nine points and six rebounds.
• The win gave 10th-year head coach
Nate Davis his 200th victory at Gettysburg. He accomplished the milestone in his 246th game.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action at McDaniel on Wednesday. Game time is 6 p.m.
