COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. - The sixth-seeded Dickinson women's basketball team got a career-high 24 points from senior
Jenna Weinstein and raced out to a 21-5 lead after the first quarter en route to a convincing 71-57 win over the third-seeded Ursinus College Bears on Tuesday night at Helfferich Gymnasium in the first round of Centennial Conference Tournament.
- After an early foul shot by Chinwe Irondi, the Red and White were on fire as buckets for Mia Chapman and Jenna Weinstein led to an 8-0 run.
- Another score from Irondi slowed things for a second, before two at the line for Weinstein, coupled with a Caitlin Blackman try from the left-wing opened it up to 13-3 with less than four to go.
- Dickinson just kept on rolling as two Weinstein triples and a strong finish at the rim from Chapman made it 21-5 after ten minutes.
- The teams struggled early in the frame combining for three missed shots and two turnovers, until Charlotte DiLello and Chapman traded buckets with nearly three minutes gone.
- An "old-fashioned" three-point play put away by Lizzie McGrath pushed the gap to 26-7, but ten in a row from the Bears cut the margin to 26-17 with 2:26 remaining.
- 30-seconds later Chapman stopped the run with a layup plus the foul to bump the lead to 29-17, before points from DiLello and Emma Afflerbach brought it back down slightly (29-20).
- A three-ball by Weinstein and layup from Madison Smith set the margin at 32-22 heading into the break.
- The teams came out of the locker room trading buckets as Chapman and Weinstein tallied for the Devils, while Irondi and Smith answered making it 41-28 with almost four minutes gone.
- A pair of Smith layups and buckets put home by the duo of Clair Marion, Ella Smith and Victoria Zerbe kept the visitors ahead by double-figures at 51-36 as nine minutes had come off the clock.
- Irondi capped the scoring for the quarter with an off-balance turnaround jumper to make it 51-38 going to the fourth.
- Irondi opened up the period with a layup, but three at the stripe for Chapman allowed Dickinson to maintain a 54-45 edge at the 3:31 mark.
- Coming out of an Ursinus timeout, the Red and White continued to hold the Bears at bay as Blackman hit two on the charity line, followed immediately by Marion stealing the inbound pass and Zerbe converting inside helping to extend the margin to 60-47 at the halfway point of the frame prompting another UC timeout.
- That sparked the home side as they quickly embarked on a 7-2 run leading to a time from Dickinson as the score read 62-54 with 3:05 to play.
- Over the next two minutes two each by Blackman, Weinstein and Zerbe surrounded an Ava Possenti triple making it 68-57 inside a minute.
- The duo of Blackman and Marion combined to go three of four at the charity line over the final 20 seconds to seal up the 71-57 win.
- Points - Weinstein (24), Chapman (16), Marion (11)
- Rebounds - Blackman (9), Marion (7)
- Assists - Blackman (8), Marion (4)
- Blocks - Chapman, Weinstein and Zerbe (1)
- Points - Smith (16), Irondi (13), DiLello (11)
- Rebounds - Possenti (8), DiLello (6)
- Assists - DiLello and Foder (3)
- Blocks -
- Dickinson (14-12) will attempt to continue to play the role of spoiler on Friday when they head back to the Charm City for a date with top-seeded Johns Hopkins University at 6pm in the Centennial Conference Semifinals.
