The Lancaster Bible College Women's Basketball team defeated Penn St. Berks 77-58 on Wednesday night, making it three straight United East wins. The Chargers improve to 8-14 overall and 6-5 in conference play, while the Lions drop to 1-20 overall and 0-11 in United East play.
 
How it Happened:
Berks started the scoring with the first four points, with the Chargers ending the drought two and a half minutes in with an Alaysha Iwais layup. Raven Hunter scored the next four for LBC, then a deep Jenna Dombach jumper capped off a 14-2 run to give the Chargers the lead. The Lions fought back within three with a minute to go to leave LBC with a 16-13 lead after one period.
 
Dombach had a layup on a fast-break to open the second quarter, then a jumper from Faith Hammond extended the lead to eight. The teams went bucket-for-bucket for the next few minutes before Iwais hit the Chargers' first 3-pointer of the game to make the score 29-18. Layups from Isabella Eufemia and Dombach kept the lead at double-digits, then Hammond found Iwais for a deep two to give LBC their largest lead of the half at 13, with the Chargers going into halftime up 35-24.
 
Just like the second, Dombach started the third quarter scoring, then Rachel Nolt found the bucket twice for four points to make it a 16-point lead. Dombach connected on her first of three 3-pointers with five minutes left, then Berks hit a three to cut the deficit to eight. Hammond and Hunter made shots to boost it back, then Dombach drained another three with two seconds left to put LBC up 15 heading into the final quarter.
 
It was once again Dombach who went on a tear, scoring the first 11 for the Chargers and making it 14 straight points to launch the lead up to 23 points, then Iwais hit another jumper to cap off a 19-2 scoring run to open up the game. The Lions responded with an eight-point run of their own to bring it back to 17, but Shelby Gard sunk a pair of free throws and Coach Carpenter emptied the bench for the last few minutes. Cici Mann and Brooke Graham both scored to close out the 19-point home victory for the Chargers.
 
By the Numbers:
- The Chargers forced a whopping 33 turnovers and scored 40 points off turnovers, committing just 11 on the game
- The Chargers shot 29-80 (36.3%) from the field and 15-20 (75%) on free throws, while the Lions shot 19-63 (30.2%) for the game and 18-21 (85.7%) from the stripe
- Jenna Dombach led all scorers with 28 points
- Alaysha Iwais added 17 points and seven rebounds
- Rachel Nolt had a game-high five steals, adding eight points and five boards as well
- The Lions had three players with double-doubles, led by Ashlyn Clark with 17 points and 10 rebounds
 
Information to Know:
The Chargers are now 19-5 all-time versus Penn St. Berks and have won seven straight over the Lions since 2020. Senior Jenna Dombach notched her seventh 20-point game of the season, leading the Chargers with 331 points and 15.0 points per game. Dombach also continued to climb the LBC scoring list, moving into 17^th all-time with 873 career points and passing Emily Lloyd ('13) after dropping a game-high 28 in tonight's contest. Dombach recorded her 100^th career steal in the first quarter, finishing with two to put her at 101 steals. Shelby Gard reached 400 career points tonight, spanning her time at NAIA Warner University and Lancaster Bible. Sophomore Raven Hunter now has 47 blocks on the season, the second-highest mark in the United East.
 
Up Next:
The Chargers have one more non-conference game on Saturday, February 10 as they host Salisbury at 1:00 p.m.