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Bullets earn postseason berth with 74-59 win over Dickinson; Billmeier keys second-half explosion in final home game

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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Senior Brad Billmeier (Pennington, NJ/Hopewell Valley) scored all of his career-high 15 points in the second half to key Gettysburg’s 74-59 victory over Dickinson in Centennial Conference (CC) men’s basketball action on Saturday.

 Limited to two first-half minutes due to foul trouble, Billmeier made his final home game a memorable one by hitting 7 of 8 shots and dishing out five assists after halftime. Down by as many as 14 points in the first half, the Bullets (13-12, 9-4 CC) shot 70 percent from the floor after the break to outscore the Red Devils 43-27 and lock up their third consecutive berth in the CC postseason.

 Gettysburg, two-time defending CC champions, will face Johns Hopkins in a CC West Division second-place tie-breaker game on Monday in Baltimore. Game time is 7 p.m. The Blue Jays reached the postseason with a 68-65 victory against Franklin & Marshall on Saturday.

  David Glaser (West Chester, PA/Malvern Prep) led five Bullets in double figures with 18 points and also pulled down a team-best nine rebounds. Ryan Page (Silver Spring, MD/St. John’s College [DC]) matched a career high with 15 points in the win.

 CC rebounding leader Jon Schwadron scored 12 points and pulled down 12 boards in his final collegiate game while Brandon Karpo poured in a team-high 17 points for Dickinson (7-17, 2-11 CC). Matt Keys added 13 in the losing effort.

 Trailing 29-15 with 5:53 remaining in the first half, Gettysburg turned the tables by scoring 38 of the game’s next 48 points over a 15-minute stretch spanning both halves.

 Four straight points from Glaser pulled the Bullets within 29-19. After a free throw from Matt Hart, Page drilled a 3-pointer and Glaser scored six points to key a 12-2 burst to the end of the half that cut the Dickinson lead to 32-31.

 Freed from the bench after halftime, Billmeier quickly got into the act, converting a pair of layups in the first 1:37 to give Gettysburg a 35-32 lead.

 Schwadron knotted the game for the final time at 37 with 16:05 left, but Billmeier assisted on a Page layup to put the Bullets ahead to stay on their next trip down the floor. Page set up a fast-breaking Doug Loveland (Oceanport, NJ/Christian Brothers Acad.) to make it 41-37, then added back-to-back buckets to key a 12-0 run that pushed the lead to 49-37 with 12:43 left.

 Billmeier’s layup with 9:33 left made it 55-41 and Gettysburg led by no fewer than 10 points the rest of the way. The senior center provided the crowd with one final highlight moment in the closing minutes, stealing the ball in the Bullets’ defensive zone, then running the floor and throwing a behind-the-back pass to Dami Oloruntoba (Glenn Dale, MD/Eleanor Roosevelt) for the easy layup.

 Oloruntoba finished with 12 points while Todd Brady (Hancock, NH/ConVal) added 10 in the winning effort. Thanks to their 70-percent performance in the second half, Gettysburg shot 56 percent from the floor on the day.

 Billmeier, shooting 12-for-14 with 11 assists in his last two games, also collected three rebounds and two steals. In addition to his 15 points, Page set career highs with five steals and four assists.

 The Bullets will be making their fourth appearance in the CC postseason. Gettysburg reached the CC championship game in 1996 before winning back-to-back titles in 2001 and 2002, the first program to accomplish the feat.

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