When senior guard Jill Smith made a three-point shot early in the first quarter yesterday, Broadneck had its first lead, 3-1.
By the time the Bruins scored again, they had let the game get away from them.
No. 13 Arundel ran off 10 straight points and, behind another impressive outing by junior forward Chavonne Hammond, stayed unbeaten with a sloppy 37-25 victory yesterday in Gambrills.
Hammond led the Wildcats (4-0) with 15 points, 12 rebounds and four blocks. She has scored 67 points in four games.
"I'm proud of that fact, but I need somebody else to step up," said coach Lee Rogers, who didn't have another player in double figures. "I want everybody to know we have five players. We can't win and do what we want to do if it's just her."
Junior guard Alicia Nagowski had eight points for Broadneck (2-2), which made just one of 18 shots in the first quarter, five of 31 in the opening half, and 10 of 55 for the game.
"At the beginning of the game, we rushed our shots because they were so intense on defense," said coach Bruce Springer. "Then, as we got into the second, third and fourth quarters, we were taking shots that we've been making up to this point. But we weren't tonight."
Hammond tied the game 3-3 with a baseline jumper, and Shannon Noon put Arundel ahead when she hit from medium range with 3:26 left in the first quarter.
Jen Mottar (10 rebounds) put back a miss and Kara Kitchen (six points) twice scored from the outside, giving Arundel an 11-3 lead.
Jessica Marshall's basket to open the second quarter ended Broadneck's dry spell, but not its shooting woes. And the Wildcats extended their lead to 23-12 at halftime.
Arundel took its biggest lead, 29-12, on two baskets by Hammond and one by Noon. A three-point play by Broadneck's Sarah Brino with 14 seconds left in the quarter had the visitors behind 34-22.
The last eight minutes were the worst for Arundel. Its only points came on two free throws by Sherice Proctor and one by Hammond, who went 5-for-14 from the line.
The Bruins couldn't take advantage, though. They failed to score until Marshall's free throw with 2:54 remaining, and their only other points came on a follow by Marshall with 26 seconds left.
"We played terrible -- our shooting, execution of our offense, at the foul line," Rogers said. "I thought we did a good job defensively, but we've got to be able to put teams away. We had our chances, but we didn't score.
"It's a win, but it was an ugly one."