GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Haverford College used a game-ending 15-5 run to hold off Gettysburg College and hand the Bullets their first Centennial Conference loss of the season 67-56 inside Bream Gym Tuesday night.
 
Gettysburg (10-2, 6-1 CC) came into the contest as the conference's best shooting team, but Haverford (9-2, 6-1 CC), the top defensive team in the CC, held the Bullets to a season-low tying 37.9 percent from the floor.
 
Junior Emma Dorshimer (Jenkintown, Pa./Jenkintown) posted 13 points and eight rebounds for the Orange and Blue and now sits just four points shy of 1,000 for her career. Sophomore Ashley Gehrin (Chester, N.J./West Morris Mendham) reached double figures for the eighth consecutive outing with a dozen tallies, while senior Emily Gibbons (Annapolis, Md./Severn School) turned in a double-double with 11 points and 10 boards.
 
Samantha Wetzel and Sierra Berkel combined for 30 points and 16 rebounds to pace Haverford. Wetzel tallied 18 points, seven rebounds, and four blocked shots, while her frontcourt teammate ended the day with 12 points and nine boards. Julianna Clark knocked down a trio of three-pointers to lead reserves from both teams with 11 points.
 
Gettysburg had trouble finding its shot early in the first quarter and trailed 12-3 following a three-pointer by Maddie Gallic with 3:32 to play in the frame.
 
The hosts used a strong second-quarter effort to get back into the contest. The Bullets canned 9-of-16 shots and out-scored the Fords 20-14. A 9-0 spurt capped by a three-pointer by Gehrin gave the hosts a 27-24 advantage with less than two minutes left. Wetzel canned a pair of free throws to set the halftime score at 27-26.
 
The lead changed hands nine times in the third quarter. After Haverford seized the lead on an old-fashioned three-point play by Gallic, Gibbons returned the favor with a three-point play of her own at 7:47. That kicked off a seven-point run for Gettysburg which led to a 36-31 lead with 5:31 left in the third quarter.
 
The Fords came right back with a six-point run and despite another run by the hosts to grab the lead, the visitors went to the bench at the end of the quarter ahead 47-45.
 
Sophomore Kiera Cesareo (Randolph, N.J./Randolph) knocked down a three-pointer at the beginning of the final period to give Gettysburg a one-point lead. The advantage was short-lived as Haverford came up with the next five points. A three-pointer by Dorshimer sliced the deficit to 52-51 with 8:14 to go, but Clark banked in a three-pointer from the top of the key to regain momentum for the visitors 13 seconds later. The Fords held the Bullets to just one field goal over the final eight minutes of play and Wetzel and Berkel combined for eight of the visitor's final 12 points.
 
Gettysburg finished 22-of-58 (37.9 percent) from the floor, while Haverford finished 27-of-58 (46.6 percent). The Fords won the battle on the boards 36-34 and held a 34-24 lead in points scored in the paint.
 
Gettysburg is back in action on Thursday with a road trip to No. 12 Muhlenberg College. Game time is 6 p.m.