Box Score
COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. - Dan Luciano
led four players in double figures with 24 points and Dennis
Stanton chipped in with 17 to lift Ursinus over Gettysburg
91-77 in Centennial Conference (CC) men's basketball action
on Wednesday.
Luciano, tied with Stanton for the conference scoring lead
at 19.3 points per game, hit 10 of 14 shots on the night and
also added five rebounds and three assists to help the Bears
(18-6, 12-0 CC) snap a five-game losing streak against the
Bullets and keep their perfect conference record intact.
Ursinus' sharp-shooting guard tandem of
Mike McGarvey and Bret Jenkins
also keyed the victory, going a combined 7-for-11 from 3-point
range. McGarvey finished with 12 points and 10 assists.
David Glaser (West Chester, PA/Malvern
Prep) led Gettysburg (12-12, 8-4 CC) with a game-high
25 points while Dami Oloruntoba (Glenn Dale, MD/Eleanor
Roosevelt) added 16. Kyle Jakobe (Baltimore,
MD/McDonogh/Peddie [NJ]) and Brad Billmeier
(Pennington, NJ/Hopewell Valley) also hit double digits
with 11 and 10 points, respectively.
The loss dropped the Bullets into a second-place
tie with Johns Hopkins for the final playoff spot in the CC
West Division heading into Saturday's season finale. Gettysburg
hosts Dickinson while the Blue Jays are home against CC West
Division top seed Franklin & Marshall.
The teams battled through seven ties in the
opening 13 minutes before Ursinus used a 14-2 run to take
the lead for good.
After Jakobe gave the Bullets a brief 27-25
lead with 6:54 left in the half, Luciano knotted the game
on a layup and McGarvey stuck a 3-pointer to put the Bears
on top, 30-27.
Billmeier scored off an inbound feed from
Doug Loveland (Oceanport, NJ/Christian Brothers Acad.)
to pull Gettysburg within one, but Steve Erfle
hit a layup and Stanton scored the next three points on a
free throw and layup to make it 35-29.
Ted Piotrowicz finished on
the fast break and Luciano dropped in another layup to make
it a 10-point Bear advantage with 1:48 left in the half.
Three baskets from Glaser in the final 1:28,
the last coming with seven seconds remaining, pulled the Bullets
within 41-35 at the break.
Gettysburg fought to within three points
on seven occasions through the second half, but were met with
an Ursinus answer each time.
The Bullets cut a 50-40 lead to 50-47 on
an Oloruntoba jumper with 14:45 left, but Jenkins drilled
3-pointers on consecutive possessions to restore the Bears'
nine-point advantage.
After a Glaser layup pulled the visitors
within 64-62 at the 7:54 mark, Jenkins drained his third trey
of the half to keep Gettysburg at arms length.
Two Oloruntoba free throws pulled the Bullets
within two for the final time at 71-69, but McGarvey responded
by draining an NBA 3-pointer, touching off an 8-0 burst over
the next 54 seconds that sealed the victory.
Both teams shot the ball extremely well throughout
the game. Gettysburg shot a season-high 60 percent from the
floor while Ursinus hit at a 52-percent clip from the field.
The Bullets however managed only an 11-for-21 (52 percent)
showing from the foul line, while the Bears went 22-for-26
from the charity stripe.
In addition to his 10 points, Billmeier
dished out a career-high six assists and pulled down five
rebounds.
Erfle finished with 14 points and a game-high
nine rebounds for Ursinus.
Gettysburg returns to action on Saturday
at home against Dickinson. Game time is 2 p.m.
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