Box Score
SCRANTON, Pa. – Kyle McGlensey (West
Chester, PA/West Chester East) led four players in
double figures with a career-high 14 points as Gettysburg
raced to a 25-point halftime lead and cruised past Scranton
84-60 in the consolation game of the Radisson Invitational
on Sunday.
Making his second collegiate start, McGlensey
went 5-of-6 from the floor and hit two of three 3-point attempts,
topping his previous single-game best of 11 points and helping
the Bullets (5-4) snap a three-game losing streak. Dami
Oloruntoba (Glenn Dale, MD/Eleanor Roosevelt) added
13 points and a season-high eight rebounds for Gettysburg,
which shot 66 percent from the floor in the first half and
led by as many as 35 points.
Matt Whelan (Ridgefield, CT/Ridgefield/Worcester
Acad. [MA]) topped his point total from the previous
six games with a career-high 12 points while Kyle Jakobe
(Baltimore, MD/McDonogh/Peddie [NJ]) also hit double
digits with 10 in the winning effort. Jakobe earned all-tournament
honors after scoring 13 points in a 66-57 opening-round loss
to Susquehanna on Saturday.
Scranton’s Matthew Snyder
led all scorers with 26 points on 9-of-13 shooting. Michael
Riccobono added eight points and seven assists for
the Royals (1-8).
Unusual stat lines abounded as the Bullets
hit 19 of 29 shots to build an insurmountable 25-point halftime
lead in its first meeting with Scranton in 11 seasons.
With the game only half over, McGlensey
and Whelan had already tied career scoring highs with 11 and
10 points, respectively, while leading scorer David
Glaser (West Chester, PA/Malvern Prep) had dished
out six of his career-high seven assists, but taken no shots
in nine minutes of action.
The Royals jumped to a quick 6-0 lead
in the game’s opening 1:32, but seven points from McGlensey
in a span of 33 seconds touched off a 24-3 run that gave Gettysburg
a commanding 24-9 advantage with 11:00 left in the half.
A layup by Justin Fried
temporarily halted the Bullets’ run, but Scranton would get
no closer en route to its seventh straight loss. Erik
Fromm (Swedesboro, NJ/Kingsway Regional) converted
two layups in a 10-4 run that pushed the lead to 34-15 and
Gettysburg closed the half on a 12-2 run thanks to five points
from Todd Brady (Hancock, NH/ConVal).
The Bullets enjoyed their biggest lead
at 66-31 after a pair of Whelan free throws with 13:32 remaining.
Gettysburg freshmen Mike Beck (Clearwater,
FL/Clearwater), Brian Sateja (Morristown, NJ/Delbarton
School) and Julius Redd (Gaithersburg, MD/Magruder)
all saw their first collegiate varsity action against the
Royals. Beck and Sateja scored four points apiece.
Glaser attempted only one shot in 17
minutes and was held scoreless for the first time since late
in the 2001-02 season. Oloruntoba’s 13-point effort was his
second highest of the season, behind a 14-point outing at
Franklin & Marshall on Dec. 10.
The Bullets return to action on Wednesday
at Johns Hopkins. Game time is 7:30 p.m.
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