Lydia Lawson vs Scranton 012718
Dan Gittis
46
Winner Scranton SCR 18-1, 7-1 LMK
44
Elizabethtown ETOWN 11-7, 5-3 LMK
Winner
Scranton SCR
18-1, 7-1 LMK
46
Final
44
Elizabethtown ETOWN
11-7, 5-3 LMK
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Scranton SCR 12 9 16 9 46
Elizabethtown ETOWN 9 11 15 9 44

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Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

#14/15 Scranton survives thriller with E-town

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- In a back-and-forth defensive game at Thompson Gymnasium on Saturday, nationally-ranked Scranton escaped with a two-point win after Makenzie Mason's layup with 0.6 seconds left gave the Lady Royals the lead and E-town was unable to get a last-ditch attempt to fall at the buzzer. Lydia Lawson led the Blue Jays with 13 points and tied Mason for a game-high in scoring.

Scranton (18-1, 7-1 Landmark), recently ranked 14th in the WBCA poll and 15th by D3hoops.com, was out to a 4-0 lead in the first 1:07, but the Elizabethtown defense held them to those four points for nearly seven minutes. After an 0-for-5 start from the floor, Lawson drained a three to make it 4-3. Emma Powell, who subbed in off the bench, faked from out top and drove the lane. Her layup was good and the Jays had the lead at 5-4 with 2:55 left in the first quarter.

The Royals grabbed the lead back at 7-5, but Powell knocked in a pair of foul shots to tie up the game. Bridgette Mann, Scranton's leading scorer and one of the top scorers in the Landmark, sank a three with 33 seconds to go for her first points of the game. Scranton led 12-9 at the end of the first. Marissa Emlet hit a jumper on the right wing, but Mason came back with a layup to make it 12-9 with four seconds left.

Katie Feehery made it a five-point advantage early in the second for the Royals, their largest lead of the game. Emlet hit a three the next trip down for the Blue Jays as Emma Hoesman found the sophomore, who spotted up from beyond the arc and hit the shot. The E-town defense held Scranton scoreless over a few possessions and capitalized on Christ's layup to tie the game at 14-14. Hoesman had her second assist of the quarter on the bucket. Mikayla Ruth put the Jays ahead 16-14 on a backdoor. Ashley Reynolds spotted the cut from Ruth and assisted on the basket.

In the final three minutes of the half, there were two ties and four lead changes between the teams. Lawson hit her second trey of the half to give Elizabethtown (11-7, 5-3 Landmark) a 20-19 lead with 1:05 left in the half. Mason sank two foul shots with 39 seconds remaining and the Royals took a 21-20 lead into halftime.

The Blue Jays had their hands on the lead twice in the first 1:06 of the second half, but Scranton came back at EC each time. Sofia Recupero gave the Lady Royals back the lead 25-24 and a possession later Mann made it three on a made jumper. E-town stayed within one possession for four and a half minutes until an Emily Sheehan three made it 32-28. Though, Emlet cancelled it out with a three of her own 12 seconds later, her second trey of the game. Lawson hit four free throws in the final 1:41 and Elizabethtown was down just a basket going into the fourth, 37-35.

Feehery got inside for a layup that made it a four-point game again, but the next five points went to Elizabethtown. Reynolds and Christ both had buckets inside and Lawson split a pair at the line to return the Jays back in front 40-39. Each team took turns with the lead in the final 3:14 of the game. It was 44-44 after Reynolds' jumper at 1:24. A missed jumper by Mann and a defensive board by Christ gave possession to the Blue Jays with under a minute to go and a chance to take the lead late.

Elizabethtown turned the ball over, but a Recupero layup was no good and the Jays had the ball back and advanced it with a timeout with 13 seconds left in the game. With only one team foul in the quarter, Scranton elected to foul twice and took six seconds of game clock off. The Jays' attempt at the basket with four seconds didn't drop and Scranton rebounded and called a timeout for a last-second play.

From the sideline on the Royals' side of the court, Mann lobbed in a pass to Mason, who beat her defender and drove in for a go-ahead bucket with only 0.6 seconds to go. Another timeout by E-town allowed the Jays to once again advance the ball to half court, but the last-second three pointer banked off the rim and the Royals hung on in a thrilling ending to remain at one loss for the season and 7-1 in the Landmark.

Lawson had 13 points for the Blue Jays and hit five of her six free throws. Powell hit four of her six attempts. Emlet and Reynolds both added eight points and Hoesman had a game-high five assists. Mason was Scranton's leading scorer with 13 points. E-town held Mann, who came in averaging over 15.0 ppg, to a season-low seven points on 3-for-12 shooting. Sheehan had eight and Feehery added seven off the bench.

The women's basketball team will head on the road to face Drew on Wednesday, January 31, at 7 p.m.
 
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Players Mentioned

Marissa Emlet

#12 Marissa Emlet

G
5' 8"
Sophomore
Emma Hoesman

#4 Emma Hoesman

G
5' 6"
Senior
Lydia Lawson

#2 Lydia Lawson

G
5' 3"
Sophomore
Mikayla Ruth

#14 Mikayla Ruth

F
5' 9"
Sophomore
Emma Powell

#35 Emma Powell

F
5' 10"
Freshman
Ashley Reynolds

#21 Ashley Reynolds

F
5' 9"
Freshman

Players Mentioned

Marissa Emlet

#12 Marissa Emlet

5' 8"
Sophomore
G
Emma Hoesman

#4 Emma Hoesman

5' 6"
Senior
G
Lydia Lawson

#2 Lydia Lawson

5' 3"
Sophomore
G
Mikayla Ruth

#14 Mikayla Ruth

5' 9"
Sophomore
F
Emma Powell

#35 Emma Powell

5' 10"
Freshman
F
Ashley Reynolds

#21 Ashley Reynolds

5' 9"
Freshman
F