Box Score
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – David Glaser (West
Chester, PA/Malvern Prep) hit the go-ahead free throws
with 37 seconds left and Kyle Jakobe (Baltimore, MD/McDonogh/Peddie
[NJ]) blocked a last-second 3-point attempt to seal
Gettysburg’s 59-57 win over Muskingum in the championship
game of the Gettysburg Tip-Off Tournament on Saturday.
Erik Fromm (Swedesboro, NJ/Kingsway
Regional) led all scorers with a career-high 19 points
to earn all-tournament most valuable player honors and help
the Bullets (2-0) capture their third consecutive Tip-Off
title. Jakobe averaged 14.0 points per game on the weekend
to earn a spot on the all-tournament team.
Zack Ross led three players
in double figures with 16 points for the Muskies, who were
held pointless after taking an eight-point lead with 6:18
remaining. Jeff Smallwood chipped in with 11
points while Cole Pittis added 10. Ross and
Roy Skidmore were named to the all-tournament
squad.
Trailing 57-49, Gettysburg clawed all
the way back to the Tip-Off championship without the benefit
of a field goal.
Three free throws apiece from Glaser
and Fromm, and one charity toss by Matt Whelan (Ridgefield,
CT/Ridgefield/Worcester Acad. [MA]) over a span of
3 minutes, 31 seconds pulled the Bullets within 57-56 with
1:18 remaining.
Skidmore missed the front-end of a 1-and-1
situation with 38 seconds left and Glaser was fouled while
hauling in the rebound. The junior captain, held to only seven
points on 1-of-5 shooting up to that point on the afternoon,
calmly sank both free throws to give Gettysburg a 58-57 lead,
its first since the game’s opening minutes.
Muskingum (1-1) missed another free throw
and a driving layup before Jakobe hit 1-of-2 free throws to
give the Bullets a two-point cushion with 4.7 ticks left.
Following an exchange of timeouts, Jakobe blocked Skidmore’s
last-ditch 3-point attempt at the top of the key to seal the
victory.
Running a Princeton-style offense similar
to Gettysburg’s, Muskingum used a 10-0 run to take a 15-7
lead in the first seven-and-a-half minutes. Dami Oloruntoba
(Glenn Dale, MD/Eleanor Roosevelt) drilled a 3-pointer
to bring the Bullets within 22-21, but Matt Dansby
and Ross answered with treys of their own to give the Muskies
a 31-27 lead at the break.
Muskingum led by as many as 10 points
when Skidmore converted a layup to make it 41-31 in the opening
minutes of the second half. Three-pointers by Jakobe and Chris
Pombar (Glen Head, NY/North Shore) pulled Gettysburg
within 43-40 at the 12:28 mark, but four points from Pittis
and 3-pointers by Smallwood and Ross kept the Bullets at arms’
length.
Smallwood’s jumper with 6:18 remaining
gave the Muskies a 57-49 advantage, but the visitors missed
their final six field goal attempts and last four free throws
down the stretch.
Both Glaser and Oloruntoba finished with
nine points and four assists on the day. Glaser also chipped
in with six rebounds. Fromm, a sophomore post player, averaged
14.5 points and 8.5 rebounds in the two games to earn his
MVP honors.
Dansby scored eight points and pulled
down a team-high six rebounds for Muskingum.
In the day’s consolation game, SUNY Geneseo
used a 24-0 second-half run to subdue Delaware Valley, 66-52.
SUNY Geneseo’s Joe Zera and Delaware Valley’s
Javon Alston rounded out the all-tournament
team.
Gettysburg returns to action on Tuesday
at York (Pa.). Game time is 7:30 p.m.
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