LANCASTER, Pa. -- Down double digits in the fourth quarter, the Elizabethtown College women's basketball team mounted a comeback in the final minutes, but the deficit was too large to overcome and Haverford knocked E-town from the unbeaten ranks, 59-53. Marissa Emlet led the Blue Jays with 14 points and Mikayla Ruth was named to the All-Tournament Team.

The lead changed four times through the first four minutes of the first quarter. Elizabethtown (3-1) got out to a 3-0 lead until a 5-0 run by Haverford (4-0) put the Fords in front, 5-3. Ruth drained a three from the left wing on a find by Lydia Lawson. On the ensuing Haverford possession, Anna-Sophia Capizzi, also an All-Tournament Team selection, knocked down a three of her own to put HAV back in the lead.

Emlet contributed five straight on her own to put the Jays up 11-10 after a layup and one of her career-high four treys. Ruth's layup a half minute later had E-town ahead by three with 2:57 to go in the first. Haverford scored the final four points of the quarter, including Maddie Gallic's layup with seven seconds left.

Rachel Christman found Emlet to start the second and the junior made her shot from beyond the arc as Elizabethtown grabbed a two-point advantage. Then, tournament MVP Macy Goldbach helped the Fords to a 7-0 run. Katie Cook followed up Goldbach's three with one of her own after Veronica Christ cut the lead to only three. Cook's trey doubled the lead for Haverford and with 6:09 left in the half, they had their biggest lead to that point.

It grew to eight, but Emlet's third three-pointer of the first half carved into it and pulled E-town within five. Capizzi nullified Emlet's bucket with 56 seconds on the clock, but with time running out, Emlet capped off her team-leading 14-point first half with her fourth trey of the game and the Jays trailed only by five, 29-24, at the half.

Emma Powell's layup early in the third brought the Blue Jays within four at 33-29, but an extended 13-0 run covering six minutes of game time in the third quarter by Haverford put them ahead by 17, 46-29, before Lawson's free throw stopped the bleeding. Clare Marchese dropped in a three late in the quarter after Roni Isenberg found the freshman waiting behind the three-point line on the right wing. The teams traded threes as Capizzi hit from distance followed by one from Lawson. Then the junior point guard got out on the fast break to end the third and Haverford's once 17-point lead was down to 11.

Elizabethtown hadn't trailed often at all through their first three games, so it was a little bit of unknown territory for the Blue Jays. E-town didn't give up on the game, despite being down as many as 18 in the fourth and by 15 with less than half the quarter to play.

Megan Furch split a pair of foul shots that had the score at 57-42 in favor of the Fords with 4:13 to go. Over the next 3:16, the Jays outscored Haverford 11-0 to get within four. Isenberg fought for an offensive board to kickstart the spurt and made good on her follow-up layup. Powell split a set of free throws, Ruth knocked down two of her own, then Ruth kept another E-town possession alive and Powell converted the second-chance into two more points and the deficit to down to single digits.

A possession later after holding the Fords to one shot and done, Lawson dished to Powell on the fast break for the bucket. Ruth drew a charge along the sideline as Elizabethtown had the full court press on with the clock approaching a minute left in regulation. Lawson got inside for a layup and it was a four-point game with 57 seconds left. The Jays had a chance to get closer, but a three-pointer didn't go and Goldbach claimed the rebound. Cook would knock in two foul shots and Haverford got out of Mayser Gym with a 59-53 win.

Emlet's 14 were a team-high as were her nine rebounds, the second straight game the junior recorded nine boards. Ruth added 12 points for the Blue Jays.

The women's basketball team has 10 days off before returning to action on Wednesday, November 28, at York (Pa.).