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By JEFFREY REINHART
Sports Staff
Seems like every time Lancaster Catholic has a team that makes one of those patented postseason runs, the Crusaders have a cold-blooded sniper who can create and make shots at the snap of a finger.
Players like recent greats Steph Drevna and Steph Kielb and Katie Hayek, who can score in transition, come off screens or dribble-drive.
Say hello to Jen Roehm, Lancaster Catholic's latest cold-blooded sniper, who can score points in a hurry, like last week, when the junior lefty came up large in all three of the Crusaders' games.
On Tuesday, Roehm pumped in a game-high 19 points in Lancaster Catholic's 75-37 Section 3-4 crossover win against Donegal.
On Friday, Roehm matched teammate Reina Hill for game-high honors with 16 points in the Crusaders' clutch 47-34 win over Lancaster Mennonite, which forced a tie with the Blazers for first place in Section 4.
And in a much anticipated non-league game on Saturday, Roehm remained hot with a team-high 17 points in Lancaster Catholic's mucho exciting 64-62 overtime victory, when Hill beat the OT buzzer with the game-winner for the Crusaders.
In that torrid three-game stretch, Roehm averaged 17.3 points and hit big shot after big shot, particularly in the games against Lancaster Mennonite and Solanco, which were ultra large games for section-race and postseason implications.
For her efforts, Roehm is the LancSports.com Player of the Week.
Roehm had a breakthrough season of sorts last winter, getting some spot starts while averaging 9.1 points with five 3-pointers.
She joined coach Lamar Kauffman's starting unit fulltime this season and has become a reliable scorer and go-to source in crunch time.
Roehm has scored in double digits 14 times in 18 games, including her last six games in a row. That hot clip included a 26-point night in a 78-37 triumph over Lampeter-Strasburg on Jan. 19.
She's averaging 17.2 points in the last six games.
Roehm also had a 25-point game in 77-33 win over Northern Lebanon on Dec. 21, and she struck for a career-high 27 points in a 59-47 loss to Lancaster Mennonite on Jan. 5.
Through 18 games, she has six 3-pointers and is averaging 14.9 points -- third-best in Section 4.
Speaking of Section 4, Lancaster Catholic and Lancaster Mennonite are deadlocked for the lead at 11-1 each. If they both go 4-0 in the final two weeks, they'd meet in a one-game playoff for the section title.
