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ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Visiting Widener University shot 49 percent for the game and picked up a 59-45 victory over Elizabethtown College in a Commonwealth Conference women's basketball game Saturday at Thompson Gymnasium.
Casey Pritz scored 16 points and grabbed seven rebounds to lead the Pride (9-9 overall, 5-2 Commonwealth), which connected on 24-of-49 shots for the game. Lil Carney added 15 points and seven boards while Alex Held also reached double figures with 12 points.
Megan Strohman finished with a game-high 17 points for the Blue Jays (5-10 overall, 2-5 Commonwealth), but she was the lone player to reach double figures for Elizabethtown as the team shot 34.5 percent (19-for-55) from the field and attempted just one free throw in the entire game.
The 6-3 Pritz was a force inside for the Pride, shooting 7-for-12 from the field, while Carney and Held combined to go 9-for-16 from outside including 4-for-7 from beyond the three-point arc.
Strohman drilled three three-pointers for the Blue Jays, as did
Courtney Kofeldt who moved into second place on the Elizabethtown career three-pointer list with 129, trailing only the 191 three-pointers made by Heidi Metzger from 1991-95. Kofeldt finished with nine points for the Blue Jays along with
Kelly Sauerzopf, who added four rebounds in 21 minutes off the bench.
Widener opened the game by scoring 11 unanswered points over the first seven minutes before the Blue Jays got on the board on a layup by Sauerzopf with 12:35 left in the first half. The Pride lead grew to as many as 14 points at 29-15 with 2:55 left in the half, and Widener led 30-19 at intermission as Pritz tallied 11 points and six rebounds to lead all players.
After trailing 41-26 with 13:38 left, the Blue Jays scored the game's next eight points on three-pointers by Strohman and Kofeldt along with a jumper by Sauerzopf to cut the Pride lead to 41-34 with 9:27 remaining. However, Widener went on a 10-2 run capped by a three-pointer from Held that gave the Pride a 51-36 lead with 6:16 left.
Ali Jury led the Blue Jays with seven rebounds and added six points over 32 minutes. Becky Tyler had a solid all-around game for the Pride with four points, six rebounds and a game-high five assists.
Widener went just 7-for-17 from the foul line in the game, including a 5-for-13 performance in the second half, while the Blue Jays were successful on their only free throw attempt with 10:18 left in the first half as Sauerzopf converted a three-point play.