Gettysburg will host one of the two semifinals of the 2025 Centennial Conference (CC) women’s basketball championship tournament on Friday. Game time is 7 p.m.
In the six-team format, the field will be reseeded for the semifinals. The Bullets (23-2, 13-1 CC), who are the No. 2 seed, will host the higher-seeded remaining team while Johns Hopkins (21-3, 13-1 CC), which earned the No. 1 seed after winning a tiebreaking coin flip for the second straight year, will host the lower-seeded remaining team in the other semifinal on Friday at 6 p.m.
The first-round matchups will feature third-seeded Ursinus (16-9, 10-5 CC) hosting sixth-seeded Dickinson (13-12, 7-7 CC) and fourth-seeded Washington (16-9, 9-6 CC) hosting fifth-seeded McDaniel (17-8, 8-6 CC) on Tuesday. The game in Collegeville will begin at 6 p.m. while the game in Chestertown starts at 7:30 p.m.
The semifinal winners will advance to Sunday’s championship game, which will be played at the site of the highest remaining seed. Game time will be announced following the conclusion of Friday’s semifinals.
Tickets will be sold for each round of the CC tournament and will be available soon on the Centennial ticketing homepage. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students aged 6 through high school and senior citizens. Children five and under, as well as students and staff from conference institutions, are free.
The tournament’s champion will earn the CC’s automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA Division III tournament, slated to begin on Mar. 7. The NCAA field will be announced on Monday at 2:30 p.m.
The Bullets are seeking their sixth conference title and fourth straight. It is the 21st tournament appearance for Gettysburg and 11th in a row. The Bullets also in search of their 12th NCAA tournament bid.
Junior Alayna Arnolie leads Gettysburg in scoring at 15.2 points per game, while senior Shinya Lee is second in scoring (10.3 ppg) and leads the team in rebounding (9.6 rpg). Arnolie is tops on the team with 45 3-pointers and 65 steals while adding 61 assists and 2.3 rebounds per game.
Lee leads the team in blocked shots with 72 and is second on the team in steals with 35. She also has 21 assists while shooting 52.6 percent from the floor.
Junior AB Holsinger leads the team with 86 assists and is scoring 7.1 points per game. She also has 31 steals and 22 3-pointers.
Featured image caption: (L to R) Shinya Lee, Mackenzie Szlosek, and Emily Violante. [Pete Vogel]