Box Score
WESTMINSTER,
Md. - David
Glaser (West Chester, PA/Malvern Prep) scored a game-high
17 points and Gettysburg
held McDaniel to 25-percent shooting from the floor in a
60-42 Centennial Conference (CC) men’s basketball victory
on Saturday.
Despite being limited to
24 minutes due to foul trouble, Glaser managed to hit 8
of 11 shots, lifting the Bullets (9-7, 5-4 CC) to a season
sweep of the Green Terror (5-11, 2-7 CC) and their eighth
consecutive victory in the series. Glaser also surpassed
the 900-career point mark on the afternoon, finishing the
game with 910 to put himself 22 points away from the program’s
all-time top 20.
Gettysburg’s
Todd Brady (Hancock, NH/ConVal)
hit all four of his shots from the floor and 4 of 5 free
throws to finish with 12 points, one short of his season
high.
Kyle
O’Connor, who keyed McDaniel’s overtime
upset of Johns Hopkins on Wednesday, led the Green Terror
with 16 points, but connected on only 3 of 14 shots from
the floor and 2 of 8 from behind the 3-point line. Jemar Daniel also reached double digits with 10 points for the home
team, which shot just 4-for-23 from the floor in the first
half and were out-rebounded 45-26 on the afternoon.
Battling through an ugly
first half in which the two teams combined for 25 personal
fouls, 23 turnovers and misses on all 11 3-point attempts,
the Bullets did enough to stake themselves to a 10-point
halftime lead.
Dami Oloruntoba (Glenn
Dale, MD/Eleanor Roosevelt) scored on a backdoor
layup and converted two free throws to give Gettysburg
the lead for good at 4-2 in the opening minutes. Two layups
and a jumper from Glaser pushed the advantage to 10-4 and
Brady converted the first of two 3-point plays to make it
15-6 with 9:06
left in the half.
Five points from Sam
Anstead pulled McDaniel
within 17-11, but Brady again scored on a tough drive to
the basket, Reggie Davis (Longwood, FL/William Penn Charter [PA]) hit one
of two free throws and Erik
Fromm (Swedesboro, NJ/Kingsway Regional) scored in
close to put the Bullets ahead 22-11.
O’Connor went 6-for-6
from the free-throw line down the stretch to keep the Green
Terror within range despite no field goals in the final
6:35 of the half.
Chris Pombar’s
(Glen Head, NY/North Shore) backdoor layup
and Davis’
breakaway finish helped Gettysburg
take a 28-18 lead into the locker room.
McDaniel cut the deficit
to single digits on only one occasion in the second half
- on an O’Conner 3-pointer with 14:13 left in the game
- but the Green Terror went without a field goal for the
next 4 minutes, 31 seconds. Kyle
Jakobe’s (Baltimore, MD/McDonogh/Peddie
[NJ]) second 3-pointer of the half sparked a quick
8-0 burst that pushed the lead to 45-28 with 10:28 left
and two Brady free throws made it 49-31.
Seven points in 39 seconds
capped by a Daniel dunk cut the lead to 49-38, but Glaser
hit back-to-back jumpers off a Bullet timeout to key a 9-0
spurt that sealed the victory.
Oloruntoba
finished with eight points and a game-high nine rebounds
on the day while Jakobe chipped
in with eight points and seven boards.
McDaniel’s 25-percent
shooting was the season low for a Gettysburg
opponent in 2003-04. The Bullets also posted their first
back-to-back wins in January while enjoying a season-best
plus-19 rebounding margin.
Gettysburg
returns to action on Wednesday at home against Dickinson.
Game time is 8 p.m.
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