Women slip past Jays for a conference win
Gettysburg, ranked 12th in the latest D3hoops.com poll, built a 15-point lead late in the second quarter and never let No. 22 Johns Hopkins get closer than seven over the final three quarters of the game for a 54-44 win in a key early-season Centennial Conference showdown at Gettysburg’s Bream Gym.
Shinya Lee led the Bullets with 11 points, 13 rebounds, four blocked shots, and three steals. She recorded nine of those points and nine of those rebounds in a defensive lockdown in the second half.
Shinya Lee shoots for two of her 11 points.
A pair of second-chance layups from Greta Miller staked Johns Hopkins to a 4-0 lead in the game’s first 1:17. Kimberly Hopkins drove to the hoop to get Gettysburg on the board with 7:50 showing, and Alayna Arnolie drained a 3-pointer from the wing for the hosts first lead with 7:16 on the clock. The Blue Jays went back up three, but AB Holsinger hit a triple of her own to tie the game, and Reagan Chrencik connected on a layup to give the Bullets the lead for good with 4:04 to play in the opening period. Five points from Jameson Mott extended the run to 10-0 over a 2-minute, 48-second stretch…