ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- The Elizabethtown College women's basketball team showed out in their home opener Wednesday night as they hosted Salisbury in non-conference action at Thompson Gymnasium. The Blue Jays stifled the Sea Gulls, allowing a season-low 40 points in a big 72-40 win. DaniRae Renno led all scorers with 19 points while Cass Peris grabbed a career-high 13 rebounds for Etown.

Salisbury (3-6) led by as many as three, twice, in the first two minutes of the game, but that would be the last of the lead that they would see.

Down by two midway through the first quarter, Cyleigh Wilson drilled a three from the left wing that put Elizabethtown (5-0) in front, ultimately, for good. Then, with the press on for the Blue Jays, the defense generated the steal and Wilson setup Jessica King for the easy bucket, two of the team's 21 points off turnovers. Etown forced 18 Sea Gulls' turnovers in the game.

The lead continued to grow as the end of the first neared, as Peris, King, Kaeli Romanowski, and Summer McNulty padded the lead. McNulty closed out the first with a last-second shot to put the Jays up 19-10 heading into the second.

Renno outscored Salisbury on her own over the first few minutes, putting up eight points, the first eight, for the Blue Jays as their lead ballooned up to 13, 27-14, when the Sea Gulls called a 30 second timeout with 6:16 left in the second. McNulty, once again, closed out the quarter with two consecutive baskets, including another last-second buzzer-beater to put Elizabethtown ahead 36-21 going into the half.

The game was more evenly played in the third quarter as the Sea Gulls had their best 10 minutes of the evening, hitting 7-of-15 from the field and nearly matching the Jays' output of 16 third-quarter points. Alex Bull beat the clock this time with a two-point jumper as time ran out in the third. Etown led 52-35 going into the fourth.

Makenna Mummert knocked down the opening shot of the fourth for the Blue Jays and a possession later hit on a pair from the free throw line. She was 4-for-4 in the same from the foul line.

Peris continued to dominate the glasses and added two steals and a block for Etown in her 20 minutes of action off the bench. The junior would keep a possession alive midway through the fourth that turned into Wilson's second made trey of the night that made it 64-37.

Allyia Kennedy leaked out on the fast break as Peris outletted the ball to Wilson, who found the freshman for the easy two later in the fourth. Then, Peris forced the turnover and Taylor Huyck converted with a layup at the other end.

Megan Desmet and Ellie Fasick also got in on the action for the Jays. Desmet snuck in to the post and grabbed an offensive rebound and got the putback to fall. Earlier on the defensive end, Fasick blocked Kayla Nieberlein's shot as Salisbury's possession would come up empty in the end.

It was the fourth time in fifth games the Blue Jays have held their opponents to under 50 points.

Elizabethtown will open up Landmark Conference play on the road at Susquehanna on Saturday, December 3, at 2 p.m.