Box Score
WESTMINSTER, Md. – David
Glaser (West Chester, PA/Malvern
Prep) scored a game-high 25 points to lead Gettysburg over McDaniel 76-55 in the Bullets’
Centennial Conference (CC) men’s basketball opener on Saturday.Glaser,
who missed his first game in four collegiate seasons on Monday, returned to hit
10 of 13 shots from the floor and collect seven rebounds, helping Gettysburg (2-3,
1-0 CC) snap a three-game losing streak and post its 10th straight
victory over the Green Terror (1-4, 0-2 CC). Todd Brady (Hancock, NH/ConVal) added 13 points for the Bullets, who shot
a season-best 60.4 percent from the field on the afternoon.
Mike
Spadafora (Richboro,
PA/Archbishop Wood) and Kyle Jakobe (Baltimore,
MD/McDonogh/Peddie [NJ]) chipped in with 11
points apiece. Spadafora added a team-high six of Gettysburg’s
season-high 22 assists while Jakobe dished out five
helpers.
Mike
Dipiero paced
McDaniel with 10 points and five rebounds.
With
Glaser back in the fold, the Bullets built a nine-point halftime lead en route
to a successful conference opener.
After
Dipiero gave McDaniel a 28-26 lead with a pair of free
throws, the Bullets took control with a 13-2 run in the final four minutes of
the first half.
Glaser
started the run with a 3-point play, hitting a short bank jumper and converting
the ensuing free throw, the 10th and final lead change of the game.
Glaser added two free throws to make it 31-28 before Spadafora
was fouled while scoring on a driving flip shot and converted from the stripe
for a six-point lead.
Matt
Whelan (Ridgefield, CT/Ridgefield/Worcester Acad. [MA]) drilled a 3-pointer for his only points of the game
to make it 37-28. Bryant Dull snapped a Green Terror scoring drought
of nearly four minutes with a second-chance jumper in the final seconds, but Glaser
beat the halftime buzzer to make it 39-30, hitting a four-footer off a feed from
Ryan Page (Laurel, MD/St. John’s College [DC]).
Erik
Fromm (Swedesboro,
NJ/Kingsway Regional) finished a spinning transition layup
for a 43-31 lead early in the second half. A 3-pointer by Joe Hunter
cut the lead to 48-40 with 12:51 left, but Brady finished a layup
on Gettysburg’s
next trip and the Bullets maintained a double-digit lead the rest of the way.
With
Glaser leading the charge, Gettysburg
threatened to run away in the opening minutes. The team’s top scorer and
rebounder, Glaser hit a driving layup
and finished a 3-point play to key a 14-3 run in the
game’s first 4 minutes, 50 seconds.
The
Green Terror, however, responded with 12 straight points, taking a 15-14 lead
on a 3-point play by Sean McNeely and starting a seven-minute stretch
in which the lead changed hands 10 times.
Making
his second start of the year, Page posted seven points, five rebounds, five assists
and four steals.
Dull
added nine points for McDaniel, which was seeking its first win against the Bullets
since a 72-68 victory on Jan. 19, 2000 in Westminster.
Gettysburg returns to action on Wednesday at home against Franklin
& Marshall. Game time is 8 p.m.
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