Jessica King vs Misericordia 111423
Emma Mesko
47
Misericordia MIS 2-1
77
Winner Elizabethtown ETOWN 2-0
Misericordia MIS
2-1
47
Final
77
Elizabethtown ETOWN
2-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Misericordia MIS 17 13 13 4 47
Elizabethtown ETOWN 25 18 14 20 77

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Women's basketball throttles Misericordia

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- It was the Jessica King game for the Elizabethtown College women's basketball team in Tuesday night's 77-47 throttling of Misericordia. King dropped 10 points in each half to lead all scorers in the game as three Blue Jays reached double figures in the 30-point victory.

Right away, King asserted herself on the offensive end, racking up the first six points for Elizabethtown (2-0). Though the Cougars did have an early lead, it was her layup off an Etown miss and put back that got the Jays in front, momentarily at least.

Misericordia's Skylar Bianchi, who had a team-high 10 points in the first half, kept the Cougars around, as did Jocelyn Grosch. As the first quarter began to wind down, though, Elizabethtown started to stretch its lead. A three from Cyleigh Wilson, one of her three treys in the game, followed by Summer McNulty's layup as a result of a MIS turnover made it a seven-point game with 3:44 to go.

The Cougars got back within two with a quick scoring spurt, but DaniRae Renno, King, and Cass Peris closed out the quarter to make it an eight-point game going into the second.

Misericordia, unbeaten coming into the night's first all-time meeting between the two sides, hung around through almost half of the second quarter, but once again, Etown began to separate. Makenna Mummert's floater in the paint was the start of it with 6:21 remaining before the half. By the 1:30 mark of the second quarter, it was a 12-point lead as the Blue Jays doubled their advantage over a five-minute span. Lindsay Boyd knocked down a jumper from the wing and McNulty cashed in on a three-pointer with 34 seconds left as EC went into the break ahead by 13, 43-30.

King got the Jays going in the third with her layup off McNulty's pass. Two possessions later, it was King again down low as the Cougars had trouble defending the six-foot senior.

Elizabethtown maintained its double-digit lead throughout the third, capped off by Peris' runner in the lane after Allyia Kennedy found the senior for the bucket, the final points of the quarter for the Blue Jays.

Etown ran away with the game in the fourth quarter, outscoring Misericordia 20-4. They held the Cougars to just 2-for-10 shooting in the fourth. Elizabethtown shot at least 47 percent in three of the four quarters, including 8-for-14 in the fourth.

King concluded her night with back-to-back baskets in the paint with a little over three minutes to go. She finished with 20 points on 10-for-16 shooting and 12 rebounds, her first double-double of the season.

Ashley Adamson sank a right-wing jumper for her first collegiate points in her first collegiate action. Meg Robbins added a pair at the free throw line late after grabbing an offensive board and getting fouled on her putback attempt. Kamryn Mengel recorded a steal at the defensive end for the Jays.

Wilson added 17 in the win while McNulty was also in double figures with 11.

The Blue Jays will travel to Christopher Newport this coming weekend. First, they'll face East Texas Baptist on Friday, November 17, at 6 p.m. at the Freeman Center on the campus of CNU.
 
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