THE FACTS
Elizabethtown (1-0) 79, McDaniel (1-1) 45
What: Non-Conference women's basketball game
When: Monday, Nov. 8
Where: Elizabethtown, Pa.

THE SKINNY STORY
A close contest between McDaniel and Elizabethtown for the opening 13 minutes turned into a double-digit halftime lead after a 16-0 Blue Jays run en route to a 79-45 victory.

THE LEADERS
• Ellie Glass (Spring Grove, Pa./Spring Grove Area) led the Green Terror with 14 points.
• Natalie Mehl (Hamilton, N.J./Steinert) added 11 points off the bench.

FOR THE FOES
• DaniRae Renno led the Blue Jays with 12 points and 12 rebounds.
• Veronica Christ led all scorers with 27 points.
• Jessica King also reached double-digit rebounds with 12 to go with eight points.

THE REST OF THE STORY
• After a Veronica Christ jumper on the game's opening possession, two Ellie Glass 3-pointers helped McDaniel open up an 8-4 edge 3:12 into the game. The lead stretched to 17-12 on a Natalie Mehl triple with 1:07 on the first-quarter clock before Clarie Marchesse hit a layup in the waning seconds of the period to make it a three-point game.
• Trailing 19-16, eight straight points from Christ started the game-changing 16-0 run. A third Glass 3-pointer in the first half snapped the 7-minute, 54-second drought and made it a 32-22 score at the break.
• Glass closed the deficit to single-digits with a putback 25 seconds into the third quarter. After Summer McNulty and Mallory Conroy (Ellicott City, Md./Marriotts Ridge) traded layups, Elizabethtown scored six straight to open up a 40-26 lead midway through the period and the lead would get no smaller than 12 the rest of the way.
• The Blue Jays scored the first nine points of the fourth quarter to stretch a 53-34 lead to 30 for the first time en route to the season-opening win.

THE INSIDE STORY
• Meggie Burgess (Olney, Md./Good Counsel) chipped in six points and eight rebounds.
• The 14 points for Ellie Glass established a career high for the sophomore, who reached double digits in just her second collegiate game.
• Elizabethtown finished with a 53-28 rebounding advantage.

NEXT UP
McDaniel returns to action at home against Methodist in the opening round of the Rebecca Martin Memorial Tournament on Friday. Game time is 8 p.m.