Feb 15, 2014
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ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. — The Elizabethtown College women's basketball team honored its seniors Saturday at Thompson Gymnasium and sent them out on a good note in their final regular season game, a 74-55 victory over Hood in Commonwealth Conference action. Senior captains Taylor Kreider and Kendra Beittel both finished in double figures for the Jays, winners for the 999th time in program history. Elizabethtown has a chance to become just the third women's college basketball program to win 1,000 games –and first in Division III– Tuesday night at Stevenson.
Now on the brink of making some history of its own, Elizabethtown didn't make it easy early. The Jays (18-4, 12-4 CC) got off to a rocky start, missing their first four shots and turning it over on another possession. Hood (5-18, 2-14 CC) began with two missed shots and two turnovers.
Rachel Forjan dumped the ball inside and Emily Young connected on the layup, putting the first two points on the boards for the Jays with nearly three minutes gone by. Beittel then sank a three, but the Blazers' Rachel Kessler answered with a trey of her own. EC and Hood traded buckets over the next four minutes.
The sloppy play continued and just as it seemed like E-town was ready to start pulling away, Hood made sure they did not.
Kreider hit back-to-back layups to send the Jays up by eight, 30-22, with 2:14 left in the first half. The Blazers, in return, shrank the lead down to four on two foul shots and a Verkia Smith jumper. E-town led by one at the break, 31-30.
Hood took its biggest lead of the game after Brittney George was good on two free throws. On the following possession, Beittel canned her second three-pointer of the game and began what would be 13-3 run to push the Blue Jays into a comfortable lead of ten. Forjan capped off the run with a trey of her own to make it 49-39.
While the Jays' shooting heated up, the Blazers went cold. E-town held Hood to 8-for-30 from the field in the second half, a 26.7 percent clip. Beittel and Forjan themselves were 7-for-9 (5-for-6 3P). As a team, the Blue Jays shot 15-of-27 (55.6%) in the second half.
Kreider recorded her 12th double-double of the season with 19 points and 12 rebounds. She added seven assists. Forjan put in 19 of her own on 7-of-12 shooting. Beittel registered 12 points and Young was the fourth Blue Jay in double digits with ten and eight boards.
Elizabethtown can join legendary NCAA Division I programs Tennessee and Louisiana Tech in the 1,000-win club with a victory Tuesday evening at Stevenson University. The Blue Jays have been playing for 85 seasons dating back to 1928-29 and now hold an all-time record of 999-497-7. Former head coach Yvonne Kauffman won 689 of those games while pacing the sidelines for 42 seasons from 1970-2012. One of her former players, All-American and National Champion Sherri Gorman, has led the Blue Jays to 33 wins in just under two full seasons as the new head coach.
The Blue Jays and Mustangs will tip at 6 p.m. on Tuesday in Owings Mills, Md., to begin the final week of the regular season.
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. — The Elizabethtown College women's basketball team honored its seniors Saturday at Thompson Gymnasium and sent them out on a good note in their final regular season game, a 74-55 victory over Hood in Commonwealth Conference action. Senior captains Taylor Kreider and Kendra Beittel both finished in double figures for the Jays, winners for the 999th time in program history. Elizabethtown has a chance to become just the third women's college basketball program to win 1,000 games –and first in Division III– Tuesday night at Stevenson.
Now on the brink of making some history of its own, Elizabethtown didn't make it easy early. The Jays (18-4, 12-4 CC) got off to a rocky start, missing their first four shots and turning it over on another possession. Hood (5-18, 2-14 CC) began with two missed shots and two turnovers.
Rachel Forjan dumped the ball inside and Emily Young connected on the layup, putting the first two points on the boards for the Jays with nearly three minutes gone by. Beittel then sank a three, but the Blazers' Rachel Kessler answered with a trey of her own. EC and Hood traded buckets over the next four minutes.
The sloppy play continued and just as it seemed like E-town was ready to start pulling away, Hood made sure they did not.
Kreider hit back-to-back layups to send the Jays up by eight, 30-22, with 2:14 left in the first half. The Blazers, in return, shrank the lead down to four on two foul shots and a Verkia Smith jumper. E-town led by one at the break, 31-30.
Hood took its biggest lead of the game after Brittney George was good on two free throws. On the following possession, Beittel canned her second three-pointer of the game and began what would be 13-3 run to push the Blue Jays into a comfortable lead of ten. Forjan capped off the run with a trey of her own to make it 49-39.
While the Jays' shooting heated up, the Blazers went cold. E-town held Hood to 8-for-30 from the field in the second half, a 26.7 percent clip. Beittel and Forjan themselves were 7-for-9 (5-for-6 3P). As a team, the Blue Jays shot 15-of-27 (55.6%) in the second half.
Kreider recorded her 12th double-double of the season with 19 points and 12 rebounds. She added seven assists. Forjan put in 19 of her own on 7-of-12 shooting. Beittel registered 12 points and Young was the fourth Blue Jay in double digits with ten and eight boards.
Elizabethtown can join legendary NCAA Division I programs Tennessee and Louisiana Tech in the 1,000-win club with a victory Tuesday evening at Stevenson University. The Blue Jays have been playing for 85 seasons dating back to 1928-29 and now hold an all-time record of 999-497-7. Former head coach Yvonne Kauffman won 689 of those games while pacing the sidelines for 42 seasons from 1970-2012. One of her former players, All-American and National Champion Sherri Gorman, has led the Blue Jays to 33 wins in just under two full seasons as the new head coach.
The Blue Jays and Mustangs will tip at 6 p.m. on Tuesday in Owings Mills, Md., to begin the final week of the regular season.
