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73
Winner Elizabethtown ETOWN 5-4
59
Marywood MUWB 4-6
Winner
Elizabethtown ETOWN
5-4
73
Final
59
Marywood MUWB
4-6
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Elizabethtown ETOWN 19 20 19 15 73
Marywood MUWB 21 14 12 12 59

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Women's Basketball Slips to Blue Jays

Scranton, Pa. – Elizabethtown College erased early deficits to beat Marywood University 73-59 Saturday in non-conference women's basketball action. The Blue Jays outscored the Pacers 34-24 in the second half.

Natasha Hessling recorded her seventh double-double of the season with 13 points and 13 rebounds. She connected on 6 of 10 shooting, and Hessling reached double-digits in rebounds for the 10th time this season.

Alyssa Olson had a team-high 14 points, thanks to three 3-pointers. Morgan Shamro totaled 11 points.

Elizabethtown's Lydia Lawson finished with 22 points, seven steals and six assists. Roni Isenberg provided 18 points, and Mikayla Ruth had 12 points.

The Blue Jays shot 46 percent from the field to the Pacers' 39 percent. Both teams fared well from beyond the arc with Etown shooting 46.7 percent and the Pacers making 36 percent. Marywood outrebounded the Blue Jays by a 37-34 margin.

Marywood jumped out to a 17-8 lead when Shamro made a jumper off of a Hessling assist with 4:29 left in the first quarter. After Olson hit a layup, the Blue Jays went on a seven-point run to tie the game before Hessling's layup in the paint from Shamro gave the Pacers a 21-19 lead with two seconds left.

The Pacers (4-6) regained their lead to seven when Shamro made a kick-back 3-pointer with 6:16 remaining in the half. The Blue Jays outscored the Pacers 10-3 over the next four minutes, tying the game on a deep Veronica Christ 3-pointer.

Isenberg gave Elizabethtown their first lead (34-32) on a jumper from Mikayla Ruth. Shamro retook the lead for the Pacers on a 3-pointer of her own from Aryah Aungst with 1:19 left. The Blue Jays scored five unanswered in the last minute of the half off of a Ruth jump and Marissa Emlet trey to head into the break with a four-point advantage.

Marywood hosts Lebanon Valley College on Monday on 6 p.m.  
 
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