Box Score
WESTMINSTER, Md. - Curtis
McNeil (Alexandria, VA/St. Stephen's & St. Agnes)
scored a team-high 21 points and added four assists as Gettysburg
rolled over Western Maryland 86-64 in Centennial Conference
(CC) men's basketball action on Wednesday.
Jim Natale (Washington Crossing, PA/Council Rock)
tossed in 14 points on 7-of-10 shooting while Kevin
Boyle (Pennsburg, PA/Lansdale Catholic) added a season-best
12 to help the Bullets (12-4, 4-1 CC) move one half game ahead
of Franklin & Marshall for first place in the CC West Division.
Alan Hoyt led the Green Terror (5-9, 2-3 CC)
with 13 points while Jon Pearson also hit double
digits with 10.
The Green Terror (5-9, 2-3 CC) scored the game's first five
points and pushed its lead to 12-1 with 15:09 left in the
first half before McNeil answered with nine straight to key
a 13-0 run that put Gettysburg on top 14-12 less than four
minutes later.
Natale knotted the game at 12
with a layup and Dami Oloruntoba (Glenn Dale, MD/Eleanor
Roosevelt) scored two of his career-high nine points
off an Antoine Gaither (Laurel, MD/Laurel) steal
to give the Bullets their first lead of the night.
Greg Hill scored on a layup to knot the game
at 14, but Gettysburg reclaimed the lead for good on a David
Glaser (West Chester, PA/Malvern Prep) layup that
started a 9-0 run.
Western Maryland cut the lead to seven, but Gettysburg used
22-5 run over the final 6:45 of the first half while holding
the Green Terror without another field goal to take a 48-24
cushion into the locker room.
Western Maryland opened the half with a layup from Jack
Kowalik, but the Bullets scored the next 11 points
to make it 59-26 with 17:05 remaining.
In addition to his nine-point performance, Oloruntoba also
set career highs with three assists and two blocked shots.
The Bullets shot 56 percent from the floor on the game, including
a 60-percent showing in the first half.
With his 21 points, McNeil trails Bob Rudisill (1,028 points
from 1975-80) by one point for 18th place on the program's
all-time scoring list. The senior topped the 1,000-point mark
with 35 points against Franklin & Marshall on Saturday.
Gettysburg returns to action on Saturday at non-conference
Villa Julie. Game time is 4 p.m.
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