Box Score
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Jason Jeanpierre
scored a team-high 14 points and Francis Ebong
posted a double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds to lead
Navy over Gettysburg 85-36 in non-conference men’s basketball
action on Saturday.
Jeanpierre scored half of his points
in the game’s first 2:47 as the Midshipmen (3-5) built a quick
12-0 lead and never looked back en route to its 10th straight
win over the Bullets (5-4).
David Hooper hit double
digits with 11 points for Navy, which snapped a five-game
losing streak. The Midshipmen went to the line 24 times and
shot 52 percent from the floor after halftime to score 53
points after the break and pull away.
Brad Billmeier (Pennington, NJ/Hopewell
Valley) led Gettysburg with seven points and six rebounds
while David Glaser (West Chester, PA/Malvern Prep),
the Centennial Conference’s leading scorer, was held to six
points.
Navy wasted little time building a double-digit
lead, opening the game with a 12-0 run over the first 2 minutes,
47 seconds.
Jeanpierre hit a second-chance layup
off the opening tip and Mitch Moore drilled
a jumper from the right elbow to make it 4-0. Jeanpierre scored
on another put-back and Scott Long knocked down
the first of the Midshipmen’s four first-half 3-pointers for
a nine-point edge.
Jeanpierre then capped the run with a
trey of his own with 17:13 left in the first half.
Todd Brady’s (Hancock, NH/ConVal)
driving layup at 16:09 put the Bullets on the scoreboard,
but layups by Ebong and Marcell Cummings gave
Navy a 16-2 lead.
A layup and two free throws by Glaser
cut the deficit to 10. Gettysburg clamped down on defense
and used a 10-4 run to creep within 24-18 on Ryan Page’s
(Silver Spring, MD/St. John’s College) 18-foot jumper.
The first of two threes from Hooper and
an Ebong put-back dunk re-established Navy’s double-digit
lead and Hooper’s second trey with 42 ticks left made it 32-20
at the break.
The Bullets managed to hit only 6 of
26 shots (23 percent) from the floor in the first half, but
went 8-for-9 from the free throw line to play even with the
Midshipmen over the last 17 minutes of the half.
The two teams were not even after halftime.
Keyed by a 9-for-12 showing from the
free-throw line in the first 4:36 of the second half, Navy
scored the first 18 points after the break to take a 50-20
lead and put the game away.
Justin Harrison (Washington, DC/St.
John’s College) scored on a driving layup with 14:10
remaining for Gettysburg’s first points of the second half,
snapping a 9-minute, 52-second stretch with no field goals.
The Bullets finished just 11-for-46 (24
percent) from the field on the night and missed all 13 of
their 3-point attempts.
Jeanpierre added five rebounds, four
steals and two assists in the win.
Gettysburg returns to action on Saturday
at home against Mount Aloysius. Game time is 2 p.m.
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