Box Score

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – David Hooper scored 10 of his team-high 16 points in the final two minutes of the second half to help Navy snap a five-game losing streak with a 61-60 victory over Gettysburg in non-conference men's basketball action on Saturday.

Hooper went 5-for-6 from the charity stripe in the final stretch to give the Midshipmen (1-5) their first win of the season and 11th in a row over the Bullets (4-3).         

Kyle Jakobe (Baltimore, MD/Peddie [NJ]), who recorded a career-high 19 points against Franklin & Marshall, topped it with a 25-point performance, hitting 8-for-10 from the floor and 4-of-6 from behind the arc. David Glaser (West Chester, PA/Malvern Prep) added 15 points and grabbed 10 boards in the loss.

Gettysburg used a 24-8 run in the second half to erase a 14-point deficit, but came up short in final two minutes.

Reggie Davis (Longwood, FL/William Penn Charter [PA]) made a behind-the-back pass to assist an Erik Fromm (Swedesboro, NJ/Kingsway Regional) layup that tied the game at 45 with 8:13 left to play.

Navy regained the lead it had all game with a layup form George O'Garro. Glaser, who scored 13 of his 15 points in the second half, made a layup of his own to tie the game once again at 47-all.

A Mike Higgins jumper and two free throws pushed the lead to 51-47 at 6:43.  Back-to-Back layups by Glaser and Roberto Lararto (Asuncion, Paraguay/American School of Asuncion) brought the game to 51-51 at the 4:58 mark.

From there it was all Hooper for the Midshipmen. He drained a three-pointer and a 10-foot jumper on the next two possessions, giving Navy the lead that would not relinquish.

Glaser hit a few free throws to pull within one, but Hooper was sent to the line on three occasions and hit five of the six for a four-point lead with 4.7 seconds left. Jakobe knocked down two-of-three free throws and then hit his fourth trey just before the final buzzer, but it wasn’t enough for the victory.

Despite a four-minute, six-second scoring draught to open the game, Jakobe put Gettysburg on the board at the 15:54 mark to make it 4-2 in favor of Navy. Kyle McGlensey (West Chester, PA/West Chester East) brought the Bullets within one, the closest of the half, when he connected on a jumper, drew the foul and completed the three-point play.

Hooper answered back with a trey of his own.  On the next possession, McGlensey repeated his last trip down the court to bring Gettysburg within three at 11-8.

A 7-2 spurt over two minutes gave Navy an eight-point lead.  Glaser halted the run with two free throws, but on the next trip a Laramie Mergerson dunk started a 7-0 run for the Midshipmen. A three-pointer by Hooper and a put-back off a missed free throw by Calvin White gave Navy their biggest lead of the first half at 28-15 with 3:24 to play. 

A layup by Davis and a jumper by Jakobe in the final two minutes could not cut the lead to single digits going into halftime.

McGlensey tallied six points, while Laratro chipped with a career-high four points.

Gettysburg returns to action on Jan. 3, 2004 at the University of Scranton Tournament.

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