GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Senior Emma Dorshimer (Jenkintown, Pa./Jenkintown) and junior Ashley Gehrin (Chester, N.J./West Morris Mendham) combined for 36 points as the 20th-ranked Gettysburg College women's basketball team won 72-60 in its first Centennial Conference home game of the season against Ursinus College on Tuesday night.
 
Gettysburg (4-1, 2-0 CC) has now won each of the last 12 meetings against Ursinus (2-3, 0-2 CC) inside Bream Gym.
 
Dorshimer, the reigning Centennial Conference Player of the Week, poured out 26 points, hitting 9-of-10 from the free throw line. After knocking down a 3-pointer in the third quarter, Dorshimer is just two three-pointers shy of Gettysburg's career mark of 186 held by Dana Bear '04.
 
Gehrin tallied 10 points and a season-high three steals, while Meredith Brown (Landisburg, Pa./West Perry) led the team with nine rebounds. Freshman Seanna McNamara (Berwyn, Pa./The Episcopal Academy) came off the bench to lead the reserves with five points, while fellow classmate Tori Yantsos (Rockville, Md./Holy Child) collected three steals for a season-high.
 
Lydia Konstanzer led the Bears with 15 points. Gabby Downs and Maya Kornfel chipped in 12 and 10 points, respectively, while Aliyah Stephens grabbed eight rebounds.
 
Three lead changes and three ties occurred roughly within the first four minutes of the first quarter. The Bears jumped on the scoreboard first as Aliyah Stephens scored off a free throw 13 seconds into the game. The two squads continued to exchange the lead until the Bullets started running away with the advantage that they never gave up the rest of the game. The Bullets went on a 13-5 run in the last six minutes, locking down Ursinus on the defensive end as they held the Bears to 26.7 percent from the field in the first frame to take the 22-12 lead.
 
The Bears did not shy away in the second quarter as they netted 13 points to come within six points on two different occasions. A layup by Aliyah Stephens at the 3:55 marker made it a 27-21 game. Back-to-back layups by Gehrin and Dorshimer pushed the advantage by 10 with 1:28 left in the half. A trey by Gabby Downs and a free throw by Elizabeth Burke made it, once again, a six-point contest (31-25) with 57 seconds to go. Gettysburg finished the half with a layup from Dorshimer and a 3-pointer from freshman Christina Richson (Summit, N.J./Summit), who turned and quickly released the shot after stealing the inbounds pass in the waning seconds to boost the Bullets advantage 36-25 at intermission.
 
Konstanzer collected back-to-back baskets for the Bears to start the third quarter, but the Bullets offense prevailed. Dorshimer registered five of the last eight points for the Bullets, with a trey and a layup, to extend the lead to 16 (55-39) with 29 seconds on the clock. However, Konstanzer netted the final points of the frame for Ursinus off a jumper with four seconds left.
 
The Bullets offense never let up in the fourth quarter as they increased their lead by 18 points off a layup by Gehrin with 3:01 remaining. Gettysburg shot their best field goal percentage of the quarter at 46.2 to secure the win.   
 
Gettysburg finished 25-of-63 (39.7 percent) from the field and connected on 18-of-24 (75 percent) from the free throw line. The Bears also concluded the game shooting 39.7 percent from the floor, including just 2-of-11 from beyond the arc. Gettysburg snagged a season-best 46 rebounds to the Bears 39.
 
Gettysburg continues home conference play as it hosts Johns Hopkins University on Thursday at 7 p.m.