THE FACTS
Gettysburg (21-3, 18-1 CC) 59, McDaniel (6-18, 4-15 CC) 47
What: Centennial Conference (CC) women's basketball game
When: Wednesday, Feb. 16
Where: Westminster, Md.

THE SKINNY
Gettysburg pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 59-47 win over McDaniel.

THE LEADERS
• Meggie Burgess (Olney, Md./Good Counsel) led the Green Terror with 13 points and seven rebounds.
• Ellie Connelly (Sharpsburg, Md./Boonsboro) added 10 points and three assists.

FOR THE FOES
• Mackenzie Tinner led the Bullets with 21 points, nine rebounds, four assists, and five blocked shots.
• Carly Rice also reached the 20-point mark, adding seven rebounds and six assists.

THE REST OF THE STORY
• Carly Rice staked Gettysburg to a 4-0 lead in the game's first 2:18 before a Maddie Thompson (Poolesville, Md./Poolesville) hit a jumper with 7:27 on the clock to cut the deficit in half. Clinging to a 8-6 edge, Rice canned a pair of free throws – the only two attempts from the charity stripe by either team in the first half – to spark an 8-2 burst and open up a 16-8 lead. A Mallory Conroy (Ellicott City, Md./Marriotts Ridge) layup and Katie Klein (Port Charlotte, Fla./Imagine School at North Point) 3-pointer around a Mackenzie Tinner layup in the final 32 seconds closed the margin to 18-13 after one quarter.
• Buckets from three different players keyed an 8-0 start to the second quarter to build a 21-18 lead with 7:44 remaining. A Meggie Burgess 3-pointer stretched the Green Terror lead as large as 27-22 with 3:24 remaining but a pair of Rice triples gave the visitors a 28-27 edge at the break.
• The first five minutes of the third quarter was back-and-forth before a Mackenzie Szlosek 3-pointer with 3:22 remaining gave the Bullets the lead for good. Another Rice 3-pointer pushed the lead to 41-36 before Josey Klingenberg (Hampstead, Md./Manchester Valley) closed the deficit to three in the final minute of the quarter.
• After Klein closed the margin to 41-40 just 21 seconds into the fourth quarter, Tinner hit a layup a minute later to spark a 12-2 run that pushed the lead to double digits for the first time with 4:18 remaining en route to the 12-point victory.

THE INSIDE STORY
• Gettysburg finished with a 44-24 advantage in rebounding.
• The Bullets clinch the top seed in the CC tournament with a win at Swarthmore on Saturday.

NEXT UP
McDaniel concludes the season at Franklin & Marshall on Saturday. Game time is 1 p.m.