Box Score
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Jim Natale (Washington
Crossing, PA/Council Rock) scored 15 points and added
seven rebounds and five assists as Gettysburg jumped to a
15-point lead in the opening 10 minutes and went on to defeat
Marymount 80-58 in non-conference men’s basketball action
on Thursday.
Natale shot a perfect 5-for-5 from both
the floor and the free-throw line to give the Bullets their
fifth straight win, the program’s best start since opening
5-0 in 1997. Terence Callahan (Bay Shore, NY/St.
Anthony’s) led Gettysburg with 16 points while John
Schnebly (Hagerstown, MD/South Hagerstown) also hit
double figures with 13.
Terry Hoffman led all scorers
with 19 points and completed the double-double with 10 rebounds
for Marymount, which had its two-game winning streak snapped.
Devin Archie added 14 points and Dallas
Crawley scored 10 for the Saints (2-3).
With all five starters scoring points
in the game’s first six minutes, the Bullets jumped out to
a 13-2 lead and never looked back.
Glaser assisted on Schnebly’s layup to
open the scoring then added a put-back to make it 4-0.
Hoffman’s put-back cut the lead to 4-2, but Natale scored
off another Glaser assist and Curtis McNeil (Alexandria,
VA/St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes) knocked down a 3-pointer
to key a 9-0 burst that made it 13-2.
Archie hit a trey of his own to cut the
deficit to 13-6, but Callahan and McNeil answered with back-to-back
3-pointers and the Bullets would lead by double digits the
rest of the way.
Gettysburg pushed the advantage to 27-9
with 6:29 left in the half on the second of two Brad
Billmeier (Pennington, NJ/Hopewell Valley) layups
from Kevin Boyle (Pennsburg, PA/Upper Dublin).
The Bullets led by 20 at the half on Schnebly’s put-back at
the buzzer.
Marymount pulled within 45-32 early in
the second half on Crawley’s tip-in, but a 9-2 run gave the
Bullets’ a 20-point cushion.
Boyle, making his first appearance of
the season, put an exclamation point on the win with an alley-oop
dunk off of Antoine Gaither’s (Laurel, MD/Laurel)
scoop pass with 4:21 left.
Gettysburg held the Saints to an 8-for-29
(28 percent) shooting performance in the first half and a
33-percent showing for the game.
Gaither finished with a career-best nine
points and a team-high three steals. McNeil, the Centennial
Conference’s leading scorer at 20.5 points per game, scored
eight to go along with five rebounds. The Bullets shot
19-for-22 (86 percent) from the free-throw line.
Gettysburg will seek its first 6-0 start
since 1952 when the Bullets open their conference slate at
Washington (Md.) on Saturday. Game time is 3 p.m.
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