Selinsgrove, PA (November 20, 2005) – Junior Kirby Lutz (Easton, PA/Pen Argyl) scored a game-high 19 points to lead the DeSales University women’s basketball team past Manhattanville College, 79-47, in the consolation game of the Susquehanna University Pepsi/Weis Markets Tip-Off Tournament on Sunday afternoon.

 

        DeSales (1-1 overall) led by 10 points at the half, 35-25, and put the game away in the early stages of the second half with a 27-4 run over an 11-minute span that made turned a nine point DSU lead into a 32-point Bulldog lead with 6:51 to play.  The run started with a jumper from sophomore Krista Gerlach (Oak Ridge, NJ/West Milford) and ended with a trey from freshman Erica Sovak (Tuxedo, NY/George F. Baker).

 

        Lutz scored her 19 points on 6-of-9 shooting from the field and added four steals as she was the lone Bulldog named to the All-Tournament Team.  Sovak and fellow freshman Lyndsey Sykes (Avalon, NJ/Middle Township) each reached double figures with Sykes totaling 14 and Sovak notching 10 tallies.

 

        Sophomore Jenna Stampf (Nazareth, PA/Notre Dame) grabbed a career-high nine rebounds and freshman LeighAnn Burke (Philadelphia, PA/Archbishop Ryan) filled the stat sheet with six points, seven rebounds and five assists.

 

        Manhattanville received  a double-double from Lauren Grenier with 10 points and 11 rebounds and Jessica Delagrange totaled 11 points in the loss.