Nov 16, 2013
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LANCASTER, Pa. — The last time the Elizabethtown College women's basketball team scored 88 points or more in a season opener, they went on to win the National Championship. While the Blue Jays aren't thinking that far ahead after one game, they controlled all phases of their 2013-14 debut in whipping Rutgers-Camden, 88-41, Saturday night in the first round of the Terry Greene Memorial Tournament at Franklin & Marshall.
Taylor Kreider scored her 1,000th career point when she hit a free throw 26 seconds into the second half to cap a traditional 3-point play. Kreider's total includes a 288-point freshman season at Penn State Berks. To join Elizabethtown's list of 1,000-point scorers she needs 279 more points. With good health, the all-region forward should not have trouble getting there. She scored 291 as a sophomore (11.6 ppg) and 413 as a junior (15.9 ppg).
Saturday, Kreider was her usual dominant self. She scored 17 points to go along with 13 rebounds, seven of which came on the offensive glass. The Raptors (0-1) could do nothing with the Willow Street native and Solanco grad, as she registered her 27th double-double in a Blue Jay uniform.
While it was Kreider's career accomplishment coming into focus in the second half, it was sophomore guard Rachel Forjan and senior captain Kendra Beittel stealing the spotlight in the first half.
Forjan was hot from the outside, going 3-of-5 from 3-point land en route to 17 of her game-high 21 points. Beittel shot 4-of-8, including 2-of-6 from downtown, to add 10 points as Elizabethtown (1-0) led 44-26 at the half.
All 10 players available to coach Sherri Gorman saw time and contributed to the win. In its preseason scrimmages, the Blue Jays showed signs of being a juggernaut, but scrimmages can often be deceiving. The Blue Jays' play against Rutgers-Camden was anything but.
Emily Martin came off the bench to score 11 points on 5-of-7 shooting in her collegiate debut. Fellow freshman Krissy Pennell dished out a game-high six assists in just 16 minutes.
Elizabethtown held staggering discrepencies in most categories at game's end. The blue and gray scored 35 points off of 33 Raptor turnovers, a stat they led 35-8. E-town also outscored Camden 30-8 in the paint, 19-9 on second chance points and 31-2 in bench points.
The Raptors got out to a 6-2 lead early with Krystle Cook, Monica Burch and Alex Gravinese all scoring baskets. Kreider's put back of an Erika Ferro miss with 14:41 to go in the half gave Elizabethtown its first lead, 7-6, and the Blue Jays never looked back from there.
Ferro drew her first career start and finished with four points —all at the free throw stripe— and five rebounds. Emily Young (nine) and Alyssa Aichele (eight) aided Martin in scoring 28 of the Blue Jays' 31 bench points.
The 88 points scored were the most by an Elizabethtown women's basketball team in a season opener since 1988-89, when they beat Bridgewater (Va.) 95-66. The Blue Jays went on to win their final 24 games that season and claim the program's second NCAA Division III National Championship, 66-65, over Cal State Stanislaus.
Elizabethtown, which also improved to 2-0 in season openers under Gorman, will face Franklin & Marshall for the tournament championship Sunday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. F&M defeated Penn State Berks 86-53 in the other first round game Saturday.
LANCASTER, Pa. — The last time the Elizabethtown College women's basketball team scored 88 points or more in a season opener, they went on to win the National Championship. While the Blue Jays aren't thinking that far ahead after one game, they controlled all phases of their 2013-14 debut in whipping Rutgers-Camden, 88-41, Saturday night in the first round of the Terry Greene Memorial Tournament at Franklin & Marshall.
Taylor Kreider scored her 1,000th career point when she hit a free throw 26 seconds into the second half to cap a traditional 3-point play. Kreider's total includes a 288-point freshman season at Penn State Berks. To join Elizabethtown's list of 1,000-point scorers she needs 279 more points. With good health, the all-region forward should not have trouble getting there. She scored 291 as a sophomore (11.6 ppg) and 413 as a junior (15.9 ppg).
Saturday, Kreider was her usual dominant self. She scored 17 points to go along with 13 rebounds, seven of which came on the offensive glass. The Raptors (0-1) could do nothing with the Willow Street native and Solanco grad, as she registered her 27th double-double in a Blue Jay uniform.
While it was Kreider's career accomplishment coming into focus in the second half, it was sophomore guard Rachel Forjan and senior captain Kendra Beittel stealing the spotlight in the first half.
Forjan was hot from the outside, going 3-of-5 from 3-point land en route to 17 of her game-high 21 points. Beittel shot 4-of-8, including 2-of-6 from downtown, to add 10 points as Elizabethtown (1-0) led 44-26 at the half.
All 10 players available to coach Sherri Gorman saw time and contributed to the win. In its preseason scrimmages, the Blue Jays showed signs of being a juggernaut, but scrimmages can often be deceiving. The Blue Jays' play against Rutgers-Camden was anything but.
Emily Martin came off the bench to score 11 points on 5-of-7 shooting in her collegiate debut. Fellow freshman Krissy Pennell dished out a game-high six assists in just 16 minutes.
Elizabethtown held staggering discrepencies in most categories at game's end. The blue and gray scored 35 points off of 33 Raptor turnovers, a stat they led 35-8. E-town also outscored Camden 30-8 in the paint, 19-9 on second chance points and 31-2 in bench points.
The Raptors got out to a 6-2 lead early with Krystle Cook, Monica Burch and Alex Gravinese all scoring baskets. Kreider's put back of an Erika Ferro miss with 14:41 to go in the half gave Elizabethtown its first lead, 7-6, and the Blue Jays never looked back from there.
Ferro drew her first career start and finished with four points —all at the free throw stripe— and five rebounds. Emily Young (nine) and Alyssa Aichele (eight) aided Martin in scoring 28 of the Blue Jays' 31 bench points.
The 88 points scored were the most by an Elizabethtown women's basketball team in a season opener since 1988-89, when they beat Bridgewater (Va.) 95-66. The Blue Jays went on to win their final 24 games that season and claim the program's second NCAA Division III National Championship, 66-65, over Cal State Stanislaus.
Elizabethtown, which also improved to 2-0 in season openers under Gorman, will face Franklin & Marshall for the tournament championship Sunday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. F&M defeated Penn State Berks 86-53 in the other first round game Saturday.