WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - Tied at 50 with 2:34 on the clock, sophomore Alyssa Reisinger (Kulpmont, Pa. / Mount Carmel Area), junior Kami Abdo (Pottsville, Pa. / Nativity BVM) and seniors Alicia Goldenziel (Moscow, Pa. / North Pocono) and Meghan Dufner (Washington, N.J. / Warren Hills Regional) contributed 13 points in the final 150 seconds, leading the Lycoming College women's basketball team to a 63-57 victory against Moravian University in Landmark Conference action on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 15, in their last home game of the season at Lamade Gym.
Four Warriors — Reisinger, Abdo, senior Mya Wetzel (Frackville, Pa. / North Schuylkill) and Dufner — notched double-digit scoring efforts. Reisinger led the Warriors (4-19 overall, 3-13 Landmark) with 16 points, eight of which she added in the fourth quarter to maintain Lycoming's lead. Reisinger also posted six rebounds and two steals to help the Warriors' efforts. Abdo posted 13 points and four assists. Both Abdo and Goldenziel, who added two assists against Moravian (5-18 overall, 3-13 Landmark), rank in the top 25 in the Landmark Conference for assists as each possess a 2.1 average per game.
Wetzel set the program record for 3-pointers in a career against Susquehanna on Wednesday, when she secured two 3-pointers. She doubled that output with four treys against Moravian to give her 170 in her career, hitting three 3-pointers in the first quarter and one in the second. Wetzel ranks fourth in the league with an average of 1.7 treys per game. Wetzel contributed 12 points, two assists and two steals. She also ranks in the top 25 in the league for steals with an average of 2.0 per game.
Dufner ranks 17th in the league for scoring with an average of 10.5 points per game. She secured 10 points, two assists, one block and four steals. Dufner contributed six free throws in the last minute of the fourth quarter, securing the Warriors' victory, as she ranks second in the league with a .853 season free throw percentage.
Senior Ashley Yoh (Myerstown, Pa. / Eastern Lebanon County) added six rebounds against Moravian. She ranks 16th in the league for rebounds with an average of 5.6 per game.
With the score tied at 50, Reisinger contributed two free throws seconds after the tie, bringing the game to 52-50. Abdo added a free throw in the last minute, and Goldenziel rebounded Abdo's second attempt and then got her layup to go with contact before completing the old-fashioned 3-point play. Dufner added two free throws at the 45-second mark, widening Lycoming's lead to 58-52. After Moravian clocked a long trey, Abdo added a free throw, keeping the Warriors' lead at four points with 36 seconds left. Moravian added two free throws, closing the game to two points, yet Dufner returned with two free throws of her own with less than 30 seconds left and added two more with 17 seconds left to ice it.
Wetzel jumped out by draining back-to-back 3-pointers in the second and third minutes, claiming an early lead in the first quarter. Goldenziel drove forward with a layup a minute later, pushing toward the hoop through Moravian's defense, and Dufner followed suit with a layup in the fifth minute. Abdo drove forward to add another layup to Lycoming's run in the seventh minute, bringing the Warriors' advantage to five. Abdo returned with two free throws at the bottom of the eighth minute before Wetzel came in with another 3-pointer, helping the Warriors maintain a 17-11 lead at the end of the first quarter.
To kick off the second quarter, Reisinger worked to widen Lycoming's lead with a layup and free throw in the first minute. Goldenziel added two more free throws in the second minute, which Wetzel immediately followed with another 3-pointer that brought the score to 27-11. After a timeout by Moravian, the Greyhounds attempted to close the gap with three jumpers and a layup. In the seventh minute, Abdo returned with two free throws and an assist to junior Allison Fisher's (Lower Burrell, Pa. / Burrell) jumper in the eighth minute. Reisinger added a free throw and a jumper in the last minute, keeping Lycoming in the lead by nine points at the break, 34-25.
To start the Warriors' scoring in the third period, Abdo pushed forward to hit a layup in the third minute. Within a minute of each other, Dufner and Yoh each drained jumpers from the right corner of the court, bringing the game to 40-31. In the eighth minute after Moravian began closing in on Lycoming's lead, Abdo aligned with the net and swooped a 3-pointer through, keeping the lead at 43-34. The Warriors ended the third quarter with a five-point advantage, 43-38.
Yoh hit a free throw in the second minute of the fourth quarter, and Reisinger added another three free throws in the fourth minute, keeping the lead at seven, 47-40. Reisinger secured the ball seconds later for a layup and added a free throw a few moments later in the seventh minute. With two minutes left on the clock, though, Moravian tied the game at 50, setting up Lycoming's strong finish.
Juliana Vassallo led the Greyhounds with 17 points and Lizzie Lustig added 15 points. Lanie Herbert and Bellisima Lew both contributed seven points to the board. Herbert also added 16 rebounds and Lew posted 11.
The Warriors' win comes on Senior Day, where Dufner, Yoh, Wetzel, Goldenziel and Sarah Lanphear (Chittenango, N.Y. / Chittenango) were recognized for their contributions to the basketball program.
The Warriors travel to Scranton, Pa., on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. for a Landmark Conference game against the second-ranked University of Scranton.
