Photos By Michael Lipscomb
By Logan Moyer, Sports Editor
When it rains, it pours. It was a torrential downpour at O.W. Houts Gymnasium.
The women’s basketball team drilled 19 3-pointers and shot 63% from beyond the arc Saturday in a 92-53 non-conference win over Muhlenberg.
“We had a really good shoot around this morning,” said Annie Greek, who led the River Hawks with 19 points. “Once they start to fall early, it makes it pretty easy and the energy is high for the rest of the game.”
The River Hawks (3-0) moved the ball around exceptionally well, recording 29 assists. Once they got the open looks, the ball swished through the nylon nearly every time.
“When your shots are falling, those assists are going to come,” SU head coach Gabby Holko said. “The way in which we’re shooting the basketball and pulling defenses out, also the way our post just handles the inside, teams are going to have to pick their poison.”
Five different SU players finished in double figures: Greek, Sydney Weyant (17), Julia Pinckert (11), Renee Wells (11) and Carly George (10). Typical leading scorer Julia Roth only needed to attempt five shots.
“On any given night, it could be anybody,” Holko said.
The River Hawks were on the ball from the jump, starting the game on a 7-0 run before building a double-digit lead by the end of the first quarter and a near 20-point lead by halftime.
Nine of SU’s three-point makes came in the first half. It felt like every time the ball went it, it came down through the net.
“Tonight was the first night where we stepped onto that floor and there were no real anxious nerves,” Holko said. “[They] wanted to be able to pounce on somebody.”
Susquehanna limited Muhlenberg (2-1) to 29% shooting from the floor and didn’t allow the Muhls to score more than 15 points in any quarter.
Saturday also represented another great game for Greek, who is averaging 16 points per outing to start the season. Her 19-point figure ties the career high that she set last time out against Gettysburg.
“Playing with confidence and also just being comfortable with the girls that I’m playing with,” the junior said about her hot start. “Knowing that they’ll find me and if my shot isn’t there, I have other people to kick it to.”
It’s hard to imagine a better start to the season for the River Hawks, who are undefeated through three games for the first time since 2021 with two blowout wins and a huge victory against a nationally top-ten ranked team (Gettysburg).
SU will look to ride that hot start into its Landmark Conference opener at 5 p.m. Wednesday against Juniata.
“This group just loves on each other so hard,” Holko said. “I think that this team could just be very scary when we click. And tonight, we clicked.”