MADISON, N.J. (Jan, 14, 2015) – The Drew University women's basketball team emerged victorious from a critical Landmark Conference game against Elizabethtown College by a score of 65-51 on Wednesday night in Baldwin Gymnasium.
 
"We were just motivated to get ourselves back in the running in the Landmark Conference," said sophomore forward Courtney Trzasko, whose 15 points led the Rangers' scoring effort. Trzasko drained deep range buckets with ease and put on a season-best display. Trzasko's 15 points all came on five three-pointers, a career high, on an efficient seven tries. "[Senior guard] Breana Wilson did a great job finding me, and I found the confidence to knock them down. There was a lot of hype tonight, we needed this win, and we worked together to pull it off."
 
Facilitating the Rangers' (8-7, 3-4) effort was junior forward Courtney Stephens, who collected nine rebounds and netted 13 points on 5-of-7 shooting. Wilson got in on the action dishing six assists in addition to dropping 12 points. She was one of four Rangers with a double-digit point total.
 
The Rangers opened the game on an 8-2 run characterized by three-point shooting from the corners. Trzasko drained two quick shots from deep, an area from which she admitted she has struggled thus far. She knocked them down effectively in the half.
 
Dishing the ball to the corners for threes was Stephens, who gathered passes from the guards, backed down in the paint and spit the ball crisply out to the shooters. She entered the half with three rebounds and six points.
 
Sophomore guard Hannah Miller attacked the rim with a certain stubbornness, refusing to be denied entry. With five minutes to go in the first half, Miller tried a deep two, which clanged off the back of the rim and out towards half court. Miller raced for the loose ball and beat all of the other nine players to it. With the defenders on their heels, she attacked again, this time in the paint as she drove, missed a shot off the backboard, grabbed her own rebound again and mercifully ended her resilient conversion. Her effort broke the tie between the two teams and Drew took a 19-17 lead. She led the team with rebounds (4) and points (7) as the halftime buzzer rang and the Rangers entered the half up 28-21.
 
Drew's determined perimeter defense forced a bunch of challenged Elizabethtown (9-4, 3-4) three-point attempts. The Rangers let only three fall while turning away 15. On the other end of the floor, Drew was converting treys with boosted efficiency, the majority of which came from Trzasko, but with 11:00 to play and after the teams exchanged turnovers, Miller sprinted down the baseline and tossed sophomore guard Kati Yext a pass that she swished home for a three of her own.
 
The Rangers coasted from there and pulled into the finish on the positive end of a 65-51 final score. The Rangers will look to build upon the night's success when they hit the road for Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania to challenge Susquehanna University. The Landmark Conference contest is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 17 at 2:00 p.m.