ALLENTOWN, Pa. - The Dickinson women's basketball team had eleven players score on Wednesday night, including getting 13 each from first-year
Lizzie McGrath and senior
Clair Marion en route to snapping their four-game slide by knocking off Muhlenberg College 69-41 in Centennial Conference play inside Memorial Hall.
- The home side took an early 3-0 lead on a triple from Ava Connolly, before the Red and White responded with a 12-2 outburst on buckets by Ella Smith, Jenna Weinstein, Victoria Zerbe and Marion to take a 12-5 edge with five minutes gone.
- A Rachel Saxton jumper slowed the roll for a second, but five for Weinstein, three by Marion and two from McGrath pushed the DC advantage to 21-7 with 8:28 gone.
- Five straight out of the hands of Katie McGrath trimmed it to 21-12. However, Dickinson's McGrath finished at rim just prior to the horn for a 23-12 lead.
- The opening minute saw each team find the bottom of the as the Caitlin Blackman and Veronica Dawson scored for their respective sides.
- Then, Blackman hit from downtown to spark a 12-0 run with other contributions coming from Mia Chapman, Marion and Zerbe taking the margin out to 37-15 at the four minute mark.
- Muhlenberg used three-balls by Emily Unger and Saxton aided a 9-3 charge to close out the period at 40-24.
- Blackman and Zerbe accounted for the first three points of the period making it 43-24 with three minutes gone.
- Four straight foul shots trimmed the gap to 43-28, but nine in a row between Marion and McGrath extended the lead to 55-28 at the 7:46 mark.
- Triples by both Lyndsey Costigan and Faith Tucker tried to give the Mules some life into the fourth at 55-34.
- Dickinson allowed the home side no hope though as Clare Cronley, Esther Nlebemuo, Gabby Smelcer and Marion embarked on a 10-3 romp opening the lead to 65-37 with 4:30 remaining on the clock.
- The two sides traded the final eight points with Emma Landes and Weinstein posting the points for the Red and White to see out the 69-41 final.
- Points - Marion and McGrath (13), Weinstein (8)
- Rebounds - Blackman (9), Chapman, Marion, McGrath and Weinstein (5)
- Assists - Chapman, Cronley and Marion (3)
- Blocks - Landes and Weinstein (1)
- Points - Costigan and Dawson (7)
- Rebounds - Costigan (10)
- Assists - Connolly (3), Winters (2)
- Blocks - Dawson and McGrath (1)
- Dickinson (11-10, 5-5 Centennial) returns to action Saturday afternoon at 2pm when they host the Shorewomen of Washington College on Senior Day and Alumni Day inside the Kline Center.
