ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Saturday, January 23, 1999

BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- The countdown has begun in earnest for the Elizabethtown women's basketball team.

Carmen Chiles (Lancaster, Pa./Lancaster Mennonite) scored 17 points and added seven rebounds to lead the Blue Jays to a 75-59 win over Moravian in MAC Commonwealth League action on Saturday.

Etown won for the 12th straight game and improved to 14-1 on the season (7-0 MAC Commonwealth).  The nationally-ranked Blue Jays also posted the 795th win in program history and now need just five more to become the first women's basketball program in NCAA history (all divisions) with 800 all-time victories.

Shauntae Stancil (Bensalem, Pa./Bensalem) was next on the Etown scoring list with 13 points while Middle Atlantic region player of the week Abbie Fabian (Denver, Pa./Cocalico) contributed 12 points, eight boards and five steals.  Jesse Goldstein (Lawrenceville, N.J./Lawrence) scored nine of her 11 points in the first half for Etown.

Jessie Coughlin and LaJona Johnson each scored a game-high 18 point for Moravian, which fell to 9-6 (3-4 MAC Commonwealth).

As with a number of their recent victories, the Blue Jays broke open a close game with an early second-half run.

With 18:49 remaining, the Greyhounds pulled to within 37-34 when Jen Page scored one of her two baskets on a layup and Coughlin followed with a three-pointer.

The Blue Jays, however, responded with a 13-2 run to take a comfortable advantage.  Fabian and Kim Boback (Croydon, Pa./Villa Joseph Marie) combined to scored the game's next nine points to give Etown a 46-34 lead with 15:29 left.  After Johnson hit a layup to pull Moravian within ten, Stancil and Chiles drilled jumpers on consecutive trips to give the Jays a 50-36 advantage with 14:23 remaining.

Jen Polaha cut the Etown lead to 50-39 with a three-pointer, but Stancil and Fabian answered with consecutive baskets and the Blue Jays led by no fewer than 12 points the rest of the way.

Boback finished with eight points for Etown.  In a successful homecoming, Blue Jay point guard Allison Lucey (Bethlehem, Pa./Notre Dame) led all players with six assists.  Etown shot 33-for-56 (59 percent) from the field for the game.

Etown, currently ranked second in the Mid-Atlantic region and 13th in Division III, returns to action on Tuesday, January 26 at home in a Commonwealth League showdown against regionally-ranked Messiah College.  Game time is 7 p.m.
 

MAC Commonwealth League	1	2	-	F
#13 Elizabethtown (14-1, 7-0)	35	40	-	75
Moravian (9-6 3-4)	29	30	-	59

Elizabethtown (75)
Thompson 2-3 0-0 4, Fabian 5-14 2-4 12, Snavely 0-1 0-2 0, Goldstein 4-6 2-2 11, Lucey 2-4 0-0 4, Porter 3-3 0-0 6, Boback 4-8 0-0 8, Stancil 6-9 1-2 13, Chiles 7-8 3-3 17. Totals: 33-56 8-13 75.

Moravian (59)
Coughlin 6-18 2-2 18, Ochse 0-0 0-0 0, Grzywacz 3-5 1-2 7, Rickards 1-8 0-0 2, Polaha 2-5 0-0 6, Johnson 7-13 4-6 18, DeLong 0-3 0-2 0, Huegler 0-1 0-0 0, Kenny 0-4 0-0 0, Sebastionelli 0-2 2-2 2, Page 2-4 0-0 2, Agnew 1-4 0-0 2. Totals: 22-66 9-14 59.

Three-pointers: Elizabethtown 1-3 (Thompson 0-1, Snavely 0-1, Goldstein 1-1), Moravian 6-13 (Coughlin 4-10, Polaha 2-3).  Rebounds:  Elizabethtown 38 (Fabian 8), Moravian 39 (Johnson 8).  Assists: Elizabethtown 19 (Lucey 6), Moravian 10 (Sebastionelli 4).  Turnovers: Elizabethtown 22, Moravian 21.  Steals: Elizabethtown 15 (Fabian 5), Moravian 11 (Coughlin 3).  Fouls: Elizabethtown 15, Moravian 16.  Technicals: None.  Attendance: 500.