ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- The Elizabethtown College women's basketball team suffered its first defeat of the season on Sunday in Thompson Gym at the hands of Shenandoah. The Hornets hung on for a 56-54 win over the Blue Jays. Makenna Mummert had a team-high 17 points while Allyia Kennedy and Ella Gordon each had 12 for Etown.

Both teams shot at least 50 percent or better in the first quarter as the Hornets held a slim lead, 16-14, going into the second quarter.

It was in the second quarter that the momentum of the game would dramatically shift in favor of Shenandoah. 14 of Addisyn Banks' 17 points came in the first half and the Hornets took control of the contest in the second, outscoring Elizabethtown 16-5 while holding the Jays to 2-for-15 from the floor to run their lead to 13 by halftime, 32-19.

Gordon hit a pair of threes in each half and had four in the game to tie for the second-most in a single game in her career and most with the Blue Jays. Her 12 points also tied the most she has scored in an Etown uniform since joining the team in 2023-24.

After the Jays had struggled in the second, the senior point guard drilled back-to-back threes in the third quarter as Elizabethtown slowly began erasing what as a large as a 15-point lead for Shenandoah. Her second three made it a seven-point game, 38-31, with 3:20 left in the third and an immediate timeout by the Hornets.

The Jays hung around as the tide turned in the second half. Etown's field goal percentage defense was on point, only allowing 25 percent from the field for Shenandoah (7-for-28). Meanwhile, offensively, Elizabethtown began to get going, hitting on 50 percent or better in the third and fourth quarters.

The second quarter managed to come back and bite the Blue Jays, as that hole was a little too steep in the end.

Etown had the first nine points of the fourth after trailing 44-35 going into the final frame. Mummert drained a three from the left wing to tie the game at 44-44 with 5:54 to go. Shenandoah quickly jumped back in front with an and-one by Emily Williams out of a timeout and did not trail the rest of the way.

Mummert and Kennedy were each able to get EC within two points in the final 1:18, but the Hornets hit four late free throws, all by Skai Bayless, to hold off Etown and take a 56-54 back home.

Elizabethtown hosts Dickinson on Saturday, December 20, at 2 p.m.