Box Score

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – The Lycoming College women’s basketball team made it as hard as possible for Yvonne Kauffman to walk out of Lamade Gym with a win in her final regular season game in the building, but a backcourt steal by Taylor Krieder led to a layup with 2.3 seconds left to help the retiring coach sneak away with a 72-70 Elizabethtown win in Commonwealth Conference action on Wednesday, Jan. 25.
 
Junior Rachael Scheller (Shikellamy, Pa./Sunbury) sent the game into overtime with a deep 3-pointer from the right side with four seconds left in regulation, tying the game at 62. In overtime, the Blue Jays (12-5 overall, 5-2 Commonwealth) took a four point lead at 68-64 with 3:09 left after a layup by Taylor Alwine, but the Warriors (8-9 overall, 3-4 Commonwealth) answered and a pair of free throws from sophomore Julia Antonelli (Hanover, Pa./New Oxford) tied the game at 70 with 20 seconds left.
 
The Blue Jays took a shot and Lycoming grabbed the rebound with five seconds left, but a backcourt turnover led to Krieder’s winning layup, sending Kauffman, in her 42^nd year at Elizabethtown out of the gym a winner in the closest game she has ever been a part of in the gym.
 
Elizabethtown jumped out to a 13-1 lead and extended it to as many as 15 at 24-9 after back-to-back 3-pointers from Stephanie Ellwood and Kendra Beittel, but Lycoming closed the half on an impressive 17-2 run. Antonelli led the team during the run, scoring seven points, and freshman Kat Andriani (Ephrata, Pa./Ephrata) tied the game at 26 with a free throw with 14 seconds left.
 
The Blue Jays opened the second half on a 12-4 run to take a 38-30 lead with 14:09 left, but Lycoming scored six points in a row over the next three minutes of the game to close within two points on a fastbreak bucket from freshman Kylee Sutton (Wysox, Pa./Towanda Area).  Elizabethtown got the lead back to eight points with 5:43 left, but a 3-pointer from Scheller and a second-chance bucket by Andriani got Lycoming back in the game. When a layup by Stephanie Ellwood gave Elizabethtown a seven-point lead with 2:41 left, the Warriors closed the game on a 14-7 as freshman Janelle Ziminski (Drums, Pa./Hazleton Area) hit two 3-pointers and the team knocked down 5-of-6 at the line before Scheller’s bomb tied the game.
 
Antonelli posted her fifth double-double of the season with a career-high 23 points and 11 rebounds and Scheller added 13 points, six assists, four rebounds and two steals. Sutton notched 12 points and two steals and Ziminski kicked in eight points and two assists. Senior Erin Connaghan (Harrisburg, Pa./Bishop McDevitt) added five points, seven rebounds, three assists and two steals.
 
Krieder led the Blue Jays with 24 points and 10 rebounds. Ellwood added 14 points, eight rebounds and four assists and Nadine Yuninger added 12 points and five rebounds.
 
The Warriors get back on the court on Saturday, Jan. 28, when they face Lebanon Valley at 2 p.m. as part of a doubleheader.The men tip at 4 p.m.