THE FACTS
No. 10 Gettysburg (28-2) 56, No. 14 Randolph-Macon (29-2) 49
What: NCAA Div. III women's basketball tournament third round
When: Friday, Mar. 14
Where: Gettysburg, Pa.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg opened up an eight-point lead in the second quarter and kept Randolph-Macon at arm's length the rest of the way to pick up a 56-49 win in the third round of 2025 NCAA Div. III women's basketball championship tournament.
THE LEADERS
• Jameson Mott (Evergreen, Colo./Evergreen) led the Bullets with 17 points, including hitting all three of her team's 3-pointers.
• Shinya Lee (Rochester, N.Y./Holderness Prep School) added eight points, 14 rebounds and two assists.
FOR THE FOES
• Morgan Miller led the Yellow Jackets with 14 points, seven rebounds and three assists.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• Jameson Mott and Marisa Ziegler traded 3-pointers in the game's first 85 seconds before four straight points from Kimberly Hopkins (Baldwin, N.Y./Sacred Heart Academy) opened up a 7-3 edge with 6:19 showing. Trailing 9-4, four points from Megan Miller keyed a 6-0 burst that gave Randolph-Macon a one-point edge in the final minute of the quarter. Back-to-back driving layups from Hopkins put Gettysburg in front 13-10 at the quarter break.
• Layups from Hopkins and Shinya Lee extended the lead to 17-11 with 8:07 to play in the second quarter but a Miller triple cut the deficit in half on the next possession. Another Miller trey made it an 18-17 game but Emily Violante (Easton, Pa./Easton Area) made two free throws out of the media timeout to start a 7-0 run that made it 25-17 with 3:10 showing. Emily Olsen hit a layup in the final 70 seconds to make it 25-19 at the intermission.
• A Violante long jumper pushed the lead back to eight in the first 11 seconds of the third quarter. After the teams traded baskets, the Yellow Jackets pulled within 29-25 on a Catherine Kagey jumper with 6:11 to play but Mott had the answer at the other end. Three free throws trimmed the deficit to 31-28. After Holsinger (Charlottesville, Va./Langley) and McKenzie Matheny traded baskets, two Amanda Rapel (Phillipsburg, N.J./Phillipsburg) free throws and a Mott triple made it 38-30 en route to a 39-32 advantage after three periods.
• Mott scored the first five Bullet points of the fourth quarter to build a 44-34 lead with 6:41 to play. Randolph-Macon pulled to within five on a Miller 3-pointer with 1:28 showing but Gettysburg made its final eight free throws to win by seven.
THE INSIDE STORY
• Gettysburg is into the national quarterfinals for the first time in program history.
• AB Holsinger finished with 12 points and five rebounds.
• Kimberly Hopkins chipped in 10 points.
• The Bullets are responsible for both of Randolph-Macon's losses this season. The Yellow Jackets won 28 straight games between the meetings with Gettysburg.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action against top-ranked New York University at home on Saturday with the winner advancing to the national semifinals in Salem, Va. Game time is 7 p.m.