LANCASTER, Pa. -- Behind four in double figures, the Elizabethtown College women's basketball team held off Franklin & Marshall Saturday afternoon on the first day of the Terry Greene Memorial Tournament. Christ led the Blue Jays with 16 points as E-town remained unbeaten with the 63-58 win over the Diplomats.

Haley Pilone put Franklin & Marshall (1-1) up on the first possession of the game with a three-pointer, one her of game-high four. Her trey was answered by Marissa Emlet, who knocked down a three on the left wing. It was the first points of the game for Elizabethtown (3-0) and three of Emlet's team-high 11 first-half points.

Mikayla Ruth drove to the hoop and got her layup to fall in to give E-town its first lead of the afternoon. F&M responded with a 7-0 run to go in front 10-5 with nearly half the quarter gone. Pilone gave the Dips the lead with another three then two turnovers by the Blue Jays results in a pair of baskets for the hosts.

Christ broke the spurt with a hoop plus the harm as she was fouled going down the right side of the lane. Her basket was good plus the free throw and the Jays were back within two just like that.

Pilone hit her third three-pointer of the first quarter to reestablish the five-point lead for Franklin & Marshall, 15-10, but a 5-0 run for EC made it 15-15 after one. Ruth's layup and Lydia Lawson's three with less than a minute to go were the final points of the opening quarter.

Ruth started the second quarter with two points down low after Lawson found her junior teammate for the basket. Elizabethtown grabbed a two-point lead and would not give it up the rest of the game.

Ahead by two, 22-20, with 6:50 left in the second quarter, E-town pushed that lead to eight points after Christ connected on a jumper and Emlet drained four straight foul shots. The junior knocked down all ten of her free throw opportunities in the game and the Jays were 9-for-10 in the first half.

F&M was able to get it back down to three with a minute and a half to go before halftime, but Rachel Christman hit a timely trey to elevate the cushion back to six. Angie Hawkins split a pair of foul shots with under a minute remaining in the first half and Christ closed out the second quarter with a three-pointer of her own and Elizabethtown went into the locker room ahead by eight at the break.

The Diplomats cut the deficit in to half to four in the first 1:20 of the third quarter, but Emma Powell and Christ hit back-to-back shots on back-to-back possessions for the Blue Jays. Franklin & Marshall would get within three or four, though Elizabethtown never folded or relinquished the lead and continued to remain in front.

A layup from Alisyn Narracci had FMC down only a point with 50 ticks on the clock in the third, but Christ knocked down another jumper and then claimed the defensive rebound on F&M's final offensive possession of the quarter and sent Lawson off on the fast break opportunity. Lawson drew the foul and made the bucket. The Jays went into the fourth with a five-point lead, 51-46.

Pilone hit her fourth and final trey of the game to begin the fourth and Franklin & Marshall climbed to within two, but Emlet was not about to let her team give up the lead. Twice she went hard to the basket and twice drew the foul calls. She would knock down each set of two free throws and E-town was up 55-49 with 6:50 left to play.

It was a three-point game with time running out. Roni Isenberg grabbed a defensive board off a missed foul shot that could have cut it to two points. A jumper was missed on E-town's end of the court, but Ruth came up with the offensive rebound to keep possession in favor of the Blue Jays with 37 seconds to go.

On the inbounds, Lawson received the ball and was fouled right away. With the Jays in the bonus, Lawson stepped up to the line and sank both from the charity stripe to make it a two-possession game. Elizabethtown made enough foul shots down the stretch, including two from Christ with just two seconds left, to ice the game and hold on for the 63-58 win.

Christ finished with 16 points and tied for a team-high with four assists. Emlet ended with 15 points and a team-high nine rebounds. Ruth and Lawson each had 10 points for the Blue Jays.

Elizabethtown will take on Haverford tomorrow at 1 p.m.