Box Score
GETTYSBURG,
Pa. – Jackiem Wright netted a game-high
17 points, including the go-ahead 3-pointer with 2:15 to
play, to lift No. 5 Franklin & Marshall to a 68-65 victory
at Gettysburg in Centennial Conference (CC) men’s basketball
action on Wednesday.
Wright,
behind five field goals and five free throws, led three
players in double figures for the Diplomats (4-0, 3-0 CC),
who defeated the Bullets (2-4, 1-1 CC) for the sixth straight
time over the last three seasons.
Ryan Page (Laurel, MD/St. John’s
College [DC]) led four Gettysburg
players in double figues with
a career-high 16 points and six rebounds. David
Glaser (West Chester, PA/Malvern
Prep) added 13 points – all in the second half
– and grabbed a game-high eight boards.
After Page
drilled a 3-pointer from the top of the arc to give the
Bullets a 63-61 advantage, Wright answered with a trey of
his own and converted 1 of 2 free throws for a 65-63 F&M
lead with 1:52 to play.
Dan Lynch
stretch the lead to three, hitting the back end of two charity
tosses before a putback by Eric
Fromm (Swedesboro,
NJ/Kingsway
Regional) pulled the hosts back to within 66-65
with 6.8 seconds showing.
One second
later, Wright made good on both of his free throws to push
the lead back to three, but Gettysburg could not get a shot
off in the waning seconds to force overtime.
After 10
lead changes in the first half, the Bullets opened up a
seven-point advantage on two occasions, the last coming
at 30-23 on a Mike
Spadafora (Richboro,
PA/Archbishop
Wood) triple with 3:16 remaining in the opening
stanza.
Bob Lynch
started a 7-0 spurt with a second-chance layup
and 3-pointer for the fifth tie of the opening half before
Spadafora nailed an elbow jumper
at the buzzer for a 32-30 lead.
Glaser and
Page pushed the lead to six 1 minute, 22 seconds into the
second half before Dan Lynch sparked a 9-2 burst over the
next two and half minutes for the Diplomats first lead since
the 7:09 mark of the first half.
Fromm gave the Bullets a 42-41 lead with 15:17 to play before
Logan Outerbridge
hit a jumper to start the decisive 15-4 run over the next
eight minutes.
Outerbridge had seven points, including a triple to cap the burst.
Page provided
a spark to pull the Bullets within seven, and Glaser recorded
the next seven Gettysburg points, including a trey and emphatic
fast-break dunk to pull the hosts within 58-57.
Spadafora notched 13 points while Fromm
registered 10 points and seven rebounds for the Bullets.
Outerbridge scored 15 points for the Diplomats while Bob Lynch chipped
in 10.
Gettysburg returns to action on Saturday, Dec. 18 at Navy. Game
time is 7:30 p.m.
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