Box Score
WESTMINSTER, Md. – Dami Oloruntoba (Glenn
Dale, MD/Eleanor Roosevelt) tipped in a missed 3-pointer
with 3.7 seconds remaining to lift Gettysburg over McDaniel
68-66 in Centennial Conference (CC) men’s basketball action
on Saturday.
The Green Terror (5-18, 2-9 CC) had one
final chance to finish the upset, but Erik Larson’s
desperation 3-pointer missed the mark as time expired.
Oloruntoba’s game-winning basket capped
the Bullets’ rally from an 11-point second-half deficit, helping
Gettysburg (12-11, 8-3 CC) maintain its one-game lead over
Johns Hopkins for the final playoff spot in the CC West Division.
David Glaser (West Chester, PA/Malvern
Prep) led the Bullets with 15 points and also matched
a career high with six assists. Ryan Page (Silver Spring,
MD/St. John’s College [DC]) added 12 points and seven
rebounds while Doug Loveland (Oceanport, NJ/Christian
Brothers Acad.) equaled a career high with 10 points
in the win.
The loss overshadowed outstanding performances
from three McDaniel seniors playing in their final home games.
Notorious Bullet-killer Greg Hill struck for
a game-high 20 points, including the game-tying 3-pointer
with 14.9 seconds left. Larson knocked down his first three
3-pointers of the season en route to 11 points while Adam
Hynes added 10.
Trailing by 11 point with 14:38 remaining,
Gettysburg scrapped back to keep its postseason aspirations
alive.
After a Hill trey made it 50-39 Green
Terror, Reggie Davis (Longwood, FL/Wm. Penn Charter
[PA]) answered with a three of his own and Oloruntoba
converted a 3-point play to start the comeback.
Hill knocked down a driving jumper to
push the lead to 52-45, but Kyle Jakobe (Baltimore,
MD/McDonogh/Peddie [NJ]) knocked down a long-distance
3-pointer and Page scored the next four points to knot the
game at 52 with 8:26 left.
McDaniel regained a five-point lead on
a jumper from Alan Hoyt and another triple from
Hill, but Glaser drained a three and Loveland scored four
points on two free throws and a layup to give the Bullets
a 59-57 lead with 4:07 left.
Two charity tosses from Glaser and one
from Oloruntoba made it 64-61 with 50 seconds remaining. Hill
hit a pull-up jumper to pull the Green Terror within 1, then
followed two free throws by Justin Harrison (Washington,
DC/St. John’s College) with his fourth and final 3-pointer
of the game to tie the contest at 66 and set the stage for
Oloruntoba’s heroics.
After spotting Gettysburg a quick 11-3
lead, McDaniel drained seven straight 3-pointers throughout
the rest of the half to lead by as many as 12, before taking
a 37-31 edge into the locker room. Larson, who had missed
his only two 3-point attempts of the season heading into the
game, drilled three from behind the arc in the opening 20
minutes to help the Green Terror build its double-digit lead.
The win was the Bullets’ seventh straight
over McDaniel, dating back to the 1999-2000 season. Hill,
whose program-record 8-for-8 3-point shooting performance
and 27 points keyed the Green Terror’s last win in the series,
finished Saturday’s contest 7-for-14 from the floor and 4-for-9
from behind the arc.
Glaser’s six assists tied a career high
set against Cal St. Hayward last season. Harrison, making
his first collegiate start, finished with eight points and
hauled in a career-high six rebounds.
Mike DiPiero dished out
a game-high eight assists for McDaniel.
Gettysburg returns to action at Ursinus
on Wednesday. Game time is 7:30 p.m.
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