Box Score
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. --- Seventeenth-year head women’s basketball coach Christen Ditzler won her 200th career game, 66-60 over visiting King’s College on Thursday, Dec. 10. Five different Warriors reached double-figures in scoring, helping Lycoming snap a seven game losing skid.
Lycoming is now 2-7 on the season while the Lady Monarchs fall to 4-5.
Ditzler’s first career win came in her second game as the Lycoming head coach, defeating Kean College 64-52 on Sunday, Nov. 21, 1993.
The Warriors started strong on both ends of the court, with the offense building to a 12-2 lead in the first four minutes of the game. Three-pointers were key in the opening scoring, with Jessica Zerbee (Duncansville, Pa./Hollidaysburg) canning a three to give Lycoming a 7-2 advantage. Following an Erin Connaghan (Harrisburg, Pa./Bishop McDevitt) steal, freshman Rachael Scheller (Sunbury, Pa./Shikellamy) knocked down a three-pointer of her own.
Defensively, Lycoming held the Monarchs under 10 points until the 10:14 mark in the first half. After King’s reached double figures, Zerbee hit another three, sparking a 25-9 scoring run. Allison Mock (State College, Pa./State College) scored back-to-back three-pointers to give Lycoming a 31-14 lead. Senior forward Becky Leid chipped in five points to the run, scoring a layup followed by a three-pointer on the next possession. Gina Manback (Shenandoah Valley, Pa./Shenandoah Valley) tossed in a shot from beyond the arc to end the half with Lycoming up 39-20.
Connaghan and Kaitlyn Ober (Lititz, Pa./Warwick) each scored layups to open the second half and cap off the run, giving Lycoming its biggest lead of the game, 43-20.
But the Monarchs rallied, cutting the Warrior advantage down to nine, 49-40, with 9:12 left in the game. Another three-pointer from Mock helped Lycoming regain a 12-point lead.
With less than two minutes remaining on the clock, King’s cut the lead down to five, grabbing several Warrior missed shots and converting the rebounds to points on the other end, working the score down to 63-58. With 19 seconds left in the game, Zerbee iced the win for the Warriors, hitting the back end of a pair of free throws.
Zerbee and Mock led Lycoming in scoring, each putting up 14 points. Zerbee also recorded four assists and five steals. Leid tallied 12 points followed by Scheller with 11 points. Kaitlyn Ober rounded out the double-figure scorers with 10 points. Leid and Ober led Lycoming on the glass, each grabbing seven rebounds.
As a team, Lycoming shot 40.0 percent from beyond the three-point line, hitting 10 of its 25 attempts. Mock was the leading three-point shooter, going four of seven from deep. Ober led the Warriors at the charity stripe, hit all of her eight attempts.
Lycoming is idle until Wednesday, Dec. 30 when it travels to Lewisburg, Pa. to face Division I opponent Bucknell University. Tip-off is set for 4 p.m.
