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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Hanover native Ben
Seibert scored a team-high 18 points to lead York (Pa.) over Gettysburg
69-62 in non-conference men’s basketball action on Tuesday.
Seibert tallied six points during a 9-0 run that put the
Spartans (3-0) ahead to stay late in the second half. Brandon Bushey
added 12 points while Paddy Lee scored eight points and pulled down
12 rebounds, giving York its third straight win at Bream Gymnasium.
David Glaser (West Chester, PA/Malvern Prep)
led the Bullets (1-2) with 27 points and a career-high 13 rebounds. The senior
captain also moved into sixth place on the program’s all-time scoring list, finishing
the night with 1,232 career points.
Ryan
Page (Laurel, MD/St. John’s College [DC]) chipped in with 10 points for
Gettysburg while Erik Fromm (Swedesboro, NJ/Kingsway Regional) added
nine. After hitting 53 percent of their shots on the season’s opening weekend,
the Bullets went 22-for-51 (43 percent) from the floor on Tuesday.
After taking an eight-point lead into the locker room,
the Spartans watched their hosts rally for a late 51-47 lead before turning the
tide.
Bushey’s 3-pointer off
an assist from Seibert pulled York within 51-50 and Seibert’s second-chance layup
on the Spartans’ next possession put them ahead to stay with 5:18 remaining. Seibert
struck for another layup and two free throws to cap the 9-0 burst and give his
squad a 56-51 lead with 3:54 left.
Two
Glaser free throws cut the deficit to 56-54, but a jumper by Brian Singer
and two foul shots by Kenny Fass restored the six-point cushion.
Page drained his second trey of the contest to pull the Bullets within 60-58 with
1:14 left before Singer hit 1 of 2 charity tosses for a 61-58 advantage.
On Gettysburg’s next possession, Page’s game-tying 3-pointer
missed off the back rim and York hit 8 of 10 free throws in the final 41 seconds
to seal the victory.
Powered
by nine quick points from Glaser, the Bullets opened a 12-8 lead in the game’s
first seven minutes. With Gettysburg mired in an eight-minute scoring drought,
however, the Spartans reeled off the next 10 points to go ahead 18-12.
Matt Whelan (Ridgefield, CT/Ridgefield/Worcester
Acad. [MA]) drained a 3-pointer to end the dry spell, but York closed
the half with a 9-4 burst, taking a 27-19 lead into the locker room after a jumper
by Joe Yeck.
The
teams combined to shoot 35 percent from the floor in the opening half before warming
up after the break.
With his
27-point outing, Glaser moved past former teammate Curtis McNeil (1,210 points
from 1998-2002) on the Bullets’ all-time scoring list.
Singer
finished with 11 points while Fass chipped in with nine points, six boards and
four assists.
Gettysburg returns
to action on Monday at Messiah. Game time is 8 p.m.
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