BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Down a point going into the fourth quarter, the Elizabethtown College women's basketball team outscored Moravian by 10 as they shot a season-best 54 percent from the floor and the Blue Jays took down Moravian at Johnston Hall, 87-78, to move to 9-1 in the Landmark Conference. Summer McNulty led all scorers with 25 points. Veronica Christ added 20 and Cassandra Peris had a season-high 12 points for Etown.

McNulty had five of the first seven and seven of the first 11 points in the first quarter for Elizabethtown (17-3, 9-1 Landmark), though the Greyhounds got out to a faster start as they led by as many as eight with 1:45 left in the opening period. Jillian Nagy and Jessica King had back-to-back layups to cut the deficit to four, but a late jumper from Madison Amy sent Moravian into the second ahead by six.

The Greyhounds threatened to pull away multiple times in the second, leading by seven at five different points of the quarter through the first 3:50, but the Jays never wavered as they hung tough and worked their way back into it. Down 34-27, Taylor Huyck's three cut it to a four-point game. Huyck hit a second consecutive shot for Etown as the Blue Jays kept the offensive possession alive on Emily Prowell's offensive board. The sophomores connected for the bucket and all of a sudden it was 34-32 with half the quarter left to play.

Moravian kept the lead until Christ's three sent Elizabethtown in sent by a point, 37-36, with 1:20 to go before the half. Madison Amy answered with a three of her own. Two of Peris's season-best 12 points came on the Jays' final basket of the half as the sophomore knocked down the jumper to tie the score at 39-39. A split at the foul for the Greyhounds gave them a 40-39 lead at the break.

The teams were even in the third, each scoring 20 points apiece. McNulty recorded six of the final 10 points in the third for Elizabethtown as they trailed 60-59.

Moravian led by four with 8:37 to go in the game but a three from McNulty and a jumper from Christ pushed Etown back in front, which is where they remained over the final 7:07. The Blue Jays held the Greyhounds scoreless for three and a half minutes while they got their lead up to six after McNulty's jumper in the paint made it 71-65.

Ahead by five, McNulty and Prowell converted consecutive layups to make it a nine-point game. Prowell's layup came after King's block and rebound at the defensive end denied Sam Osorio. Christ, who was 8-for-8 from the free throw in the game, went 6-for-6 in the final 2:06 of the game as Moravian began fouling to preserve clock.

Etown never let the Greyhounds get closer than five as they hit 6-of-8 at the foul line to close out the win.

McNulty hit 10 field goals for the second consecutive game and recorded her third consecutive 20-plus point effort with her 25, a season-high. She also knocked down a season-best three treys (on three attempts). Christ had 20 points and seven rebounds for the Jays, while Peris contributed 12 points off the bench. King had a game-high nine boards and Nagy dished out a game-high six assists.

As a team, Elizabethtown was 33-for-61 from the field (.541) and also hit 7 of 12 three-points attempts (.583), their second-best shooting percentage from beyond the arc this season.

The women's basketball team will head to Juniata on Wednesday, February 9, at 7 p.m.