SALEM, Va. -- The Elizabethtown College women's basketball team hadn't played in 15 days, but you wouldn't have known it Wednesday evening at the Cregger Center as the Blue Jays impressed in a 78-63 win at Roanoke. Veronica Christ had a game-high 25 points for Etown, who handed the Maroons their first loss of the season in the wire-to-wire victory.

Jessica King took a nice pass from Christ on Elizabethtown's (7-2) opening possession for the layup to put the visitors ahead, where they spent much of the game. Emily Prowell's bucket later in the quarter gave Etown their biggest lead of the opening period at eight, 15-7. The Maroons closed on a 5-0 run as the Jays led by three going into the second.

Elizabethtown got some help from the bench as Clare Marchese knocked down a trey to open the second quarter to return the lead to six, but Roanoke hung in there and would eventually get back in front later in the second. A Renee Alquiza trey put the Maroons up by a deuce, but Christ would knot up the game at 32-32 with a pair of free throws. She was 7-for-8 at the line in the game.

From there, the grad student added a made jumper and then Lindsay Boyd followed it up with her first of two treys in the game. Christ ended the half for Etown with another bucket and the Blue Jays rattled off seven unanswered points to take a 39-32 lead into the locker room.

DaniRae Renno, very much like the King's (Pa.) game two weeks ago, was a focal point for the Blue Jays in the second half. The Maroons struggled to handle the freshman forward and she made them pay down low, going a perfect 5-for-5 from the floor for 11 second-half points. 

The Blue Jays put it to Roanoke in the third quarter, outscoring the Maroons 29-12 to blow open the game. 10 players put up points for Etown in the second half as they led by as many as 26 in the fourth quarter. The Maroons closed the gap in the fourth, but the hole was too big as Elizabethtown closed them out and handed them their first defeat.

Renno, King, and Prowell combined to grab 25 rebounds as the Jays beat Roanoke on the glass 47-41 while also holding the Maroons to 5-for-27 from beyond the arc.

Elizabethtown will face Lynchburg tomorrow night at 7 p.m. back at the Cregger Center.