SELINSGROVE, Pa. -- The Elizabethtown College women's basketball team shot a season-best from the floor on Saturday at Susquehanna as they beat the River Hawks 79-71 to earn their 20th win of the season. It is the most wins for the program since the 2013-14 season and their 12th Landmark win marks a program best since joining the league. Veronica Christ led all scorers with 21 points in the game while Summer McNulty had 17 and DaniRae Renno added 12.

Four of the five starters recorded buckets for Elizabethtown (20-4, 12-2 LC) over a two-minute span as they went from being down 2-0 early to ahead 9-2 after Cyleigh Wilson's three with 6:33 left in the first. First, McNulty tied the game at 2-2 with a transition jumper in the paint. A Susquehanna (12-12, 4-10 LC) miss led to Jessica King's layup on the next possession as Wilson found her sophomore teammate for the basket. Renno grabbed the rebound on the River Hawks' miss and that wound up as a Christ jumper to make it 6-2. A third straight miss from SUS turned into three points for Wilson at the other end and Etown led 9-2.

The Blue Jays got up by as many as eight in the first, but the River Hawks got back within three by the end of the opening quarter.

A 7-2 run by EC to start the second returned the lead to eight as Renno had two early makes and Taylor Huyck knocked down one of the team's eight treys in the game. Elizabethtown hit on eight of their ten three-point attempts for a season-best 80 percent from beyond the arc.

Susquehanna would again get back in the game and got as close as four, but the Jays maintained their two-possession lead and with consecutive buckets from King and Renno in the final 45 seconds of the half, Etown led by nine at the half, 39-30.

The lead got into double digits in the third quarter, but a run by the River Hawks saw them close to within four with 1:29 left in the third. Emily Prowell drained a three with just over a minute to go in the third and Huyck canned her second of the game with nine seconds remaining to send the Blue Jays into the fourth ahead by eight, 58-50.

As they did all game, Susquehanna responded. Olivia Brandt's three-pointer with 6:53 to go in the fourth made it a two-point game, but Christ made sure that'd be as close as they got the rest of the way. She hit a three of her own on Jillian Nagy's assist to get the game back to a five-point affair at 65-60.

Ahead by eight with a little over a minute, King split a pair of foul shots, but stole the ball in the Susquehanna backcourt for a quick layup that made it a ten-point game with 1:01 left. Kaitlyn Lynch's jumper with 42 seconds left was the last basket Susquehanna would get as Christ closed out the game with two makes from the charity stripe to give her at least 20 for the 13th time this season.

The women's basketball team will turn their focus to Wednesday's semifinal when they host Catholic at Thompson Gymnasium at 7 p.m.