Box Score

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Down by 15 points at halftime, the Lycoming College women’s basketball team charged back and tied the game three times, but a pair of free throws from Kendra Beittel with two seconds left were able to lift Elizabethtown College to a narrow 52-49 win in Commonwealth Conference action at Lamade Gym on Saturday, Jan. 19.
 
Junior Julia Antonelli (Hanover, Pa./New Oxford) led the Warriors (4-12 overall, 4-6 Commonwealth) with 16 points, 10 in the second half, and 11 rebounds, as she became the 20^th player in school history to reach 700 career points with her ninth point of the game.
 
Freshman Victoria Siebecker (Cleona, Pa./Annville-Cleona) posted a career-high 10 points and canned two 3-pointers, as she scored eight in the second half to spur the rally.
 
Lycoming rallied furiously in the second half to erase the 15-point deficit, as they scored the first seven points of the half, with Siebecker canning a jumper with 16:02 left to make it 29-21 in the midst of a 15-2 run. Siebecker capped the run with a trey with 12:20 left, making it 31-29.
 
The Blue Jays (8-7 overall, 6-4 Commonwealth) scored the next seven points, but the Warriors fought back again and a backdoor layup from Antonelli tied the game at 39 with 5:42 left. Elizabethtown scored the next four points, but Lycoming fought back and a pair of free throws from sophomore Ali Derr (Milton, Pa./Milton Area) tied the game at 43 with 3:07 left. The teams traded free throws after that, setting up a pair of driving layups from Elizabethtown point guard Nadine Yunginger, which gave the Blue Jays a 49-45 lead with 19 seconds left.
 
The Warriors weren’t done fighting, as senior Rachael Scheller (Sunbury, Pa./Shikellamy) canned a pair of free throws with 10 seconds left before Elizabethtown got one free throw back to make it 50-47 with nine seconds left. Scheller hit a fastbreak bucket with two seconds left to make it a one-point game, but that was as close as Lycoming could get.
 
In the first half, Elizabethtown jumped out to a 15-1 lead and led by as many as 19 while holding Lycoming to 22 percent from the field. Lycoming started to fight back into the game with a layup by Antonelli with 38 seconds left in the half, setting up the second half run.
 
Derr posted eight points, seven rebounds and three steals and Scheller finished with six points, five rebounds and two assists. Freshman Olivia Manges (York, Pa./West York) added three points, seven rebounds and three steals.
 
Beittel finished with 19 points and three rebounds for Elizabethtown and Taylor Kreider added 10 points and 14 rebounds. She also added five steals. Taylor Alwine posted nine points, six rebounds and three assists.
 
The Warriors will now hit the road, heading to Alvernia for a critical Commonwealth Conference doubleheader against Alvernia, on Wednesday, Jan. 23. The women tip at 6 p.m. before the men tip at 8 p.m.