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ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Saturday, March 6, 1999

ETOWN USES BIG SECOND HALF TO DOWN JOHNS HOPKINS, 77-53, IN NCAA SECOND ROUND BATTLE; JAYS WILL FACE NYU IN SWEET SIXTEEN

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Carmen Chiles (Lancaster, Pa./Lancaster Mennonite) led four players in double figures with 22 points and also pulled down a team-best seven rebounds to lead Elizabethtown to a 77-53 win over Johns Hopkins in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Saturday.

With the win, the Blue Jays advance to meet New York University in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen round next Friday.  The Mid-Atlantic sectional semifinals and finals will be held on March 12-13 at the University of Scranton.  Etown will face NYU at 5 p.m. on Friday with Scranton hosting William Smith at 7 p.m.  The winners will meet in the sectional finals on Saturday at 7 p.m.  NYU downed St. Lawrence on Saturday, 59-48.

Abbie Fabian (Denver, Pa./Cocalico) added 14 points and six boards for Etown (25-3) while Kim Boback (Croydon, Pa./Villa Joseph Marie) tossed in 13 points and Shauntae Stancil (Bensalem, Pa./Bensalem) scored 12.  The Blue Jays are in the NCAA Round of 16 for the first time since winning the national championship in 1989.

Marjahna Segers led Johns Hopkins with 11 points and a game-high 17 rebounds while Centennial Conference Player of the Year Leslie Ritter added ten points and six assists.  The Centennial Conference champions wrapped up their season with a 23-5 record.

After a ragged first half in which the team's combined to shoot 22-for-58 (37.9 percent) and commit 23 turnovers, Etown came out of the locker room with a 15-7 run to take charge.

Jen Deaderick pulled Johns Hopkins within 31-28 with the first basket of the half, but Fabian responded with a layup and short jumper to make it 35-28.  Ritter hit a layup to pull Hopkins within five, but Chiles scored on a drive to the basket and converted a pair of free throws to give Etown a 39-30 edge with 15:59 remaining.

On the following Johns Hopkins possession, Erin Perry converted a three-point play to make it a 39-33, but that was as close as the visitors would get down the stretch.  Etown went on a 7-0 run with three points from Chiles and four from Boback to make it 46-33 with 13:38 left.

Perry sank two free throws to pull JHU within 11, but a layup by Fabian and four more points from Chiles helped Etown build a 52-38 lead with 11:05 to play.  Johns Hopkins could get no closer than 12 points the rest of the way.

With her 12-point performance, Stancil became the eighth player in program history to reach 1,300 career points.  Boback's 13-point effort helped her move into ninth place on the all-time scoring list with 1,297 points.

Etown, which entered the game with the sixth-best field goal shooting percentage in Division III, shot 27-for-57 (47.4 percent) from the floor on the game while holding Johns Hopkins to a 19-for-61 (31.1 percent) performance, including 4-for-26 (15.4 percent) from three-point range.

The win also helped the Blue Jays avenge a 64-57 home loss to Johns Hopkins in the second round of the NCAA tournament in 1997.

 

NCAA Second Round	1st	2nd	-	Final
#24 Johns Hopkins (23-5)	26	27	-	53
#13 Elizabethtown (25-3)	31	46	-	77

Johns Hopkins (53)
Butterwei 2-3 0-0 4, Ritter 3-13 4-7 10, Deaderick 3-9 0-0 7, Segers 5-14 1-2 11, Vaccaro 1-6 0-0 3, Fitzgerald 2-7 2-2 8, Kincaid 0-0 0-0 0, Malloy 0-4 0-0 0, Sumser 0-1 0-0 0, Hamilton 1-1 0-0 2, Schorr 1-2 0-0 2, Perry 1-1 4-5 6. Totals: 19-61 11-16 53.

Elizabethtown (77)
Thompson 1-3 1-4 3, Hoffer 1-1 0-0 2, Fabian 6-10 2-2 14, Snavely 0-0 0-0 0, Goldstein 2-5 2-2 7, Lucey 1-2 2-2 4, Scinto 0-1 0-0 0, Porter 0-2 0-0 0, Kudel 0-1 0-0 0, Still 0-1 0-0 0, Boback 5-12 3-4 13, Stancil 6-11 0-0 12, Chiles 5-8 12-15 22. Totals: 27-57 22-29 77.

Three-pointers: Johns Hopkins 4-26 (Ritter 0-8, Deaderick 1-5, Vaccaro 1-5, Fitzgerald 2-7, Sumser 0-1), Elizabethtown 1-3 (Goldstein 1-1, Scinto 0-1, Still 0-1). Rebounds:  Johns Hopkins 45 (Segers 17), Elizabethtown 33 (Chiles 7). Assists: Johns Hopkins 9 (Ritter 6), Elizabethtown 16 (Chiles 4). Turnovers: Johns Hopkins 27, Elizabethtown 13.  Blocked Shots: Johns Hopkins 1 (Butterwei 1), Elizabethtown 2 (Stancil, Chiles 1).  Steals: Johns Hopkins 5 (Ritter 2), Elizabethtown 13 (Lucey 4). Personal Fouls: Johns Hopkins 21, Elizabethtown 17. Technical Fouls: None. Attendance: 450.