Box Score
BALTIMORE, Md. - Steve Adams
scored a game-high 11 points as Johns Hopkins held Gettysburg
to six first-half points en route to a 60-36 victory in Centennial
Conference (CC) men's basketball action on Wednesday.
Jay Kreider, Brendan
Kamm and Frank Mason chipped in with
nine points apiece for the Blue Jays (14-5, 5-3 CC), who pulled
within one game of first place in the CC West Division. Adams
and Mike Blaine each hauled in a team-high six
rebounds.
The Bullets (10-10, 6-2 CC) struggled from
the field throughout the night, converting only 3 of 26 3-pointers,
including an 0-for-14 showing behind the arc in the decisive
first half. Todd Brady (Hancock, NH/ConVal)
and Graham Shaffer-Rais (Portsmouth, NH/Portsmouth)
led the visitors with five points apiece.
Gettysburg went scoreless for the game's
opening 8 minutes, 31 seconds and never got the offense in
gear throughout the first half, missing 18 of 21 shots and
turning the ball over 10 times in the opening 20 minutes.
JHU also struggled to score throughout the
half, but found enough offense to take a commanding lead into
the break.
Blaine scored on a put-back on Johns Hopkins'
first possession of the night and Adams converted in the lane
after a dry spell of nearly four minutes to make it 4-0. Both
teams went scoreless over the next 2 minutes, 28 seconds before
Kamm converted 1 of 2 free throws for a 5-0 lead.
Brady finally put the Bullets on the board
with a pull-up jumper at the 11:29 mark, but Kreider scored
on a breakaway layup and Blaine put back his own miss for
a 9-2 lead with 7:34 left in the half.
Dami Oloruntoba (Glenn Dale, MD/Eleanor
Roosevelt) scored in traffic to cut the deficit to
five, but Mark Leone drilled a 3-pointer on the Blue Jays'
next possession, touching off a 10-2 run that made it 22-6
at halftime.
Erik Fromm's (Swedesboro, NJ/Kingsway
Reg.) scored Gettysburg's only other field goal, converting
a jumper in the lane with 2:14 left.
A bucket from Kamm with 13:37 remaining pushed
the lead to 32-12. Blaine scored in transition to make it
39-18 with 10:34 left and Johns Hopkins never led by fewer
than 20 points the rest of the way, snapping a two-game home
losing streak against the Bullets.
Gettysburg returns to action on Saturday
at Haverford. Game time is 1 p.m.
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