Box Score
BALTIMORE, Md. – Matt Righter
hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 54 seconds remaining to lift
Johns Hopkins over Gettysburg 70-67 in Centennial Conference
(CC) men’s basketball action on Wednesday.
Righter’s only field goal of the night
kept the Blue Jays (7-2, 3-0 CC) undefeated in conference
play, despite the Bullets’ (5-5, 1-2 CC) rally from a 16-point
first-half deficit to take a lead in the final minutes. Kevin
Marquez led three JHU players in double figures with
20 points, hitting 7 of 10 shots overall and shooting 4-for-7
from 3-point range.
Eric Toback chipped in
with 17 points and a game-high seven rebounds for the Blue
Jays while Frank Mason added 14, including four
clutch free throws in the final 33 seconds.
David Glaser (West Chester, PA/Malvern
Prep) led Gettysburg with 28 points on 12-of-15 shooting,
one point shy of his single-game career high. Kyle Jakobe
(Baltimore, MD/McDonogh/Peddie [NJ]) added 11 points,
but his game-tying 3-point attempt missed the mark in the
final seconds.
In a pattern similar to heartbreaking
losses at Franklin & Marshall and Navy earlier this season,
the Bullets fell behind by double digits early, then rallied
to take the lead before getting caught down the stretch.
After falling behind by 16 points late
in the first half, Gettysburg pulled to within one point on
eight occasions after the break before a Glaser layup with
2:10 left gave the Bullets their first lead since the opening
minutes at 61-60.
Mason restored Johns Hopkins’ one-point
lead with a basket on his squad’s next trip down the floor,
but Dami Oloruntoba (Glenn Dale, MD/Eleanor Roosevelt)
drilled his only 3-pointer of the night to make it 64-62 Gettysburg
with 1:09 remaining.
Unfazed by misses on his first five
shots, Righter took a pass from Toback and drained the go-ahead
trey with 54 ticks left, giving the Blue Jays a 65-64 lead.
Mason followed a missed Bullet jumper
with two free throws and Toback went 1-for-2 from the line
following another empty Gettysburg possession to push the
advantage to 68-64.
Jakobe drained a 3-pointer to make
it a 68-67 game with nine seconds remaining, but Mason again
went 2-for-2 from the charity stripe to set the final score.
Down 4-3 in the opening minutes, Johns
Hopkins used six points from Marquez and five points from
Mason to go on a 16-3 run that made it 19-7 with 12:09 left
in the first half. The Blue Jays pushed the lead to 35-19
on a Toback jumper, but the Bullets closed out the half on
a 15-2 run that pulled them within three at 37-34.
Jakobe’s other 3-pointer of the night
started the burst while Glaser contributed a layup and 3-point
play down the first-half stretch. JHU also helped Gettysburg’s
cause with five turnovers in the final three minutes before
halftime.
Todd Brady (Hancock, NH/ConVal)
added eight points off the Bullet bench while Oloruntoba finished
with five points and a team-high six rebounds.
Gettysburg returns to action on Saturday
at home against Muhlenberg. Game time is 3 p.m.
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