Box Score
YORK, Pa. – Curtis McNeil (Alexandria,
VA/St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes) scored 19 of his
game-high 25 points in the first half as 19th-ranked Gettysburg
built a 15-point halftime lead and held on to defeat York
67-57 in non-conference men’s basketball action on Saturday.
John Schnebly (Hagerstown, MD/South
Hagerstown) added 13 points and David Glaser
(West Chester, PA/Malvern Prep) chipped in with 10
for the Bullets, who snapped a two-game losing streak against
the Spartans (6-3). Gettysburg overcame a 5-minute,
44-second scoring drought down the stretch to improve to 8-0
for the first time in program history.
Andy O’Brien led three
players in double figures with 20 points for York, which rallied
to within four points on two occasions in the game’s final
eight minutes. John Ely scored 11 consecutive
points during a three-minute stretch of the second half and
finished with 15.
The lead changed hands four times in the game’s opening
five minutes before Schnebly put the Bullets ahead to stay
at 14-13 on a bank jumper with 14:08 left in the first half.
Glaser tipped in a missed McNeil layup
and Schnebly knocked down an 8-foot pull-up to extend the
lead to 18-13. O’Brien knocked down a pull-up jumper
in traffic to pull the Spartans within three, but Terence
Callahan’s (Bay Shore, NY/St. Anthony’s) lone 3-pointer
of the game sparked a 10-4 burst that made it 28-19.
Schnebly added five points during the
stretch while Callahan capped the run with a driving scoop
layup at the 9:03 mark.
Tim Hawken answered with
a transition layup, but McNeil made his presence felt by scoring
12 points over the next 5:29 to help the Bullets build a 45-27
cushion, their largest lead of the contest.
Gettysburg led 46-31 before the Spartans,
who erased a 17-points halftime deficit against Dickinson
on Thursday, stormed back on the shoulders of O’Brien and
Ely.
O’Brien opened the half with five straight
points before Ely knocked down a pull-up jumper off his own
steal to pull York within 46-38.
Kevin Boyle (Pennsburg, PA/Lansdale
Catholic) knocked down a 3-pointer and Jim Natale
(Washington Crossing, PA/Council Rock) scored on a
reverse layup to push the lead back to 51-38.
Ely responded by scoring all 11 points
on an 11-2 run that cut the lead to 53-47 with 13:49 remaining.
York pulled within four at 59-55, but
McNeil stopped a 5-minute, 44-second scoring drought by putting
back a Callahan missed three with 4:18 left.
Each team struggled through a pair
of empty possessions before O’Brien knocked down a spinning
pull-up jumper to cut the lead to 61-57 with 2:13 left.
On the Bullets’ next trip up the floor,
Glaser restored the six-point cushion by scoring on an inside
layup from Schnebly with two seconds left on the shot clock.
Schnebly hit a breakaway layup and
McNeil converted two free throws in the game’s final 36 seconds
to seal the win.
Glaser and Natale led Gettysburg with
seven rebounds while Glaser added a career-high five assists
for the second straight game.
Hawken also reached double digits for
the Spartans with 10 points.
The Bullets return to action on Saturday,
Dec. 15 at home against Elizabethtown. Game time is
7 p.m.
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