Gettysburg opened up an eight-point lead in the second quarter and kept Randolph-Macon at arm’s length the rest of the way to pick up a 56-49 win in the third round of 2025 NCAA Div. III women’s basketball championship tournament Friday night at Brean Gymnasium. Gettysburg now moves into the national quarterfinals for the first time in program history.
Jameson Mott led the Bullets with 17 points, including hitting all three of her team’s 3-pointers, while
Shinya Lee added eight points, 14 rebounds, and two assists. Gettysburg was again without leading scorer Alayna Arnolie, last year’s Centennial Conference Player of the Year, who remains out with a concussion suffered in the Bullets’ win over Stevens on March 7th.
Morgan Miller led Randolph-Macon with 14 points, seven rebounds, and three assists.
Mott and Macon’s Marisa Ziegler traded 3-pointers in the game’s first 85 seconds before four straight points from Kimberly Hopkins opened up a 7-3 edge with 6:19 showing. Trailing 9-4, four points from Megan Miller keyed a 6-0 burst that gave Randolph-Macon a one-point edge in the final minute of the quarter. Back-to-back driving layups from Hopkins put Gettysburg in front 13-10 at the quarter break.
Layups from Hopkins Lee extended the lead to 17-11 with 8:07 to play in the second quarter, but a Miller triple cut the deficit in half on the next possession. Another Miller trey made it an 18-17 game, but Emily Violante made two free throws out of the media timeout to start a 7-0 run that made it 25-17 with 3:10 showing. Emily Olsen hit a layup in the final 70 seconds to make it 25-19 at the intermission.
A Violante long jumper pushed the lead back to eight in the first 11 seconds of the third quarter. After the teams traded baskets, the Yellow Jackets pulled within 29-25 on a Catherine Kagey jumper with 6:11 to play, but Mott had the answer at the other end. Three free throws trimmed the deficit to 31-28. After Holsinger (Charlottesville, Va./Langley) and McKenzie Matheny traded baskets, two Amanda Rapel free throws and a Mott triple made it 38-30 en route to a 39-32 advantage after three periods.
Mott scored the first five Bullet points of the fourth quarter to build a 44-34 lead with 6:41 to play. Randolph-Macon pulled to within five on a Miller 3-pointer with 1:28 showing, but Gettysburg made its final eight free throws to win by seven.
The Bullets were responsible for both of Randolph-Macon’s losses this season. The Yellow Jackets had won 28 straight games between meetings with Gettysburg, who won easily at Macon back in November, paced by 27 points from Arnolie.
The Bullets will now face off against undefeated (28-0) New York University on Saturday night at Bream Gym. The winner will advance to the national semifinals in Salem, Va. Game time is 7 p.m.
Source: Gettysburg College
Photos By Pete Vogel
