MADISON, N.J. – The Drew University women's basketball team took Elizabethtown College down to the wire, but the Blue Jays came away with a 60-59 overtime victory in Baldwin Gym Wednesday evening in Landmark Conference play.
 
The Rangers (12-8, 7-6 LC) led by as much as 15 in the first half before Elizabethtown (14-6, 10-3 LC) made a second-half comeback.
 
Senior guard Maddie Beyer and sophomore guard Jocelyn Kingsley scored 11 points apiece for Drew while senior forward Gianna Pica netted 10 points. Senior center Brenna Hezel scored seven points and posted a big defensive showing with eight rebounds and a career-high six blocked shots. Junior guard Alice Altomare and Amy Rachilla contributed seven points each.
 
Makenna Mummert scored 17 points to pace the Blue Jays while Ellie Fasick posted 15 points and nine rebounds.
 
The Blue Jays took their first lead since the first quarter when Alex Gonzalez hit a 3-pointer that made it 54-51 with 3:48 remaining. However, Rachilla answered with a 3-ball of her own with 2:54 left, and they turned out to be the final points of regulation. Each side missed on a potential go-ahead 3-pointer in the final minute.
 
Elizabethtown scored on its first two possessions in overtime, but the Rangers rallied to reclaim the lead. Pica knocked down a pair of free throws with 3:26 on the clock before Altomare drained a 3 with 1:28 to go, putting the Rangers up 59-58.
 
With 1:05 left, Gonzalez drew a trip to the foul line, where she connected on what held up to be the game-winning free throws. The two sides traded missed baskets, and Kingsley pulled down a rebound for Drew, which called timeout with 12 ticks showing. Kingsley then drove down the lane in the closing seconds, but her layup rolled out and Etown secured a loose ball as time expired.
 
The Blue Jays led 12-10 with 3:06 left in the first quarter, but that's when the Rangers got hot, reeling off a 17-0 run that put the hosts up 27-12 with 7:22 remaining in the first half.
 
Beyer sandwiched a pair of 3-pointers around an Altomare trey to put Drew up 20-12 before Hezel dropped in a layup in the closing second of the first quarter. Pica kept the surge going with a 3-pointer of her own early in the second quarter before a lay-in from Kingsley gave the Rangers their 15-point advantage.
 
Elizabethtown ended the half on a 14-6 run, however, and a Mummert 3 in the closing seconds made it a 33-26 game in favor of Drew at the intermission.
 
The Blue Jays came all the way back to tie it at 36-all with 6:46 left in the third quarter, but Kingsley answered with a pair of big 3-pointers around an Etown basket to put the hosts up four. Drew carried a 50-44 lead into the fourth quarter.
 
The Rangers led 51-46 following a free throw from Hezel with 7:55 left in regulation before the Jays scored eight unanswered points before Rachilla's late triple.
 
Drew continues its season on Saturday, when it visits Goucher College in another Landmark Conference tilt starting at 4 p.m.