Box Score
ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Junior David Glaser (West Chester, PA/Malvern Prep) tied a career high with 31 points and became the 20th player
in Gettysburg history to reach the 1,000-career point mark in the
Bullets’ 70-50 Centennial Conference (CC) men’s
basketball victory over Muhlenberg on Saturday.
Glaser went
10-for-14 from the floor and converted all eight free throws,
the last two coming with 4:40 remaining to put the Gettysburg captain squarely at the 1,000-point plateau. Glaser
also pulled down seven rebounds and dished out five assists
to help the Bullets (12-8, 8-5 CC) post a regular-season
victory at Memorial Hall for the first time since 1987,
a stretch of 11 consecutive losses.
Dami Oloruntoba (Glenn Dale, MD/Eleanor
Roosevelt)
added 11 points in the win, helping Gettysburg
keep pace with Johns Hopkins, Ursinus
and Swarthmore in the CC’s burgeoning playoff battle.
The Bullets remained tied with the defending champion Bears
for third place, one game behind the Blue Jays and one ahead
of the Garnet with five games remaining.
Jeff
Stewart led Muhlenberg (6-14, 4-9 CC) with 14 points and six
rebounds. Tom Scott added nine points and
five boards for the Mules, who dropped their fifth consecutive
game and fourth straight meeting with Gettysburg.
Despite
Glaser’s big finish, it was Oloruntoba
and Kyle Jakobe (Baltimore,
MD/McDonogh/Peddie [NJ])
who got the Bullets’ offense started.
Oloruntoba hit back-to-back 3-pointers for Gettysburg’s first six points and Jakobe
connected twice from behind the arc to stake the visitors
to a 12-5 lead. Scott’s driving layup
made it 12-7, but Glaser scored on two free throws and a
backdoor layup ahead of a Jakobe jumper that pushed the Bullet advantage to 18-7.
Jimmy
O’Brien’s put-back cut the Mule deficit to 20-13, but it was as
close as the hosts would get the rest of the afternoon.
Erik
Fromm’s (Swedesboro, NJ/Kingsway Regional) hook shot started a 9-0 Gettysburg run that made it
29-13 with 6:40 left in the first half. Glaser threw down
a fast-break dunk during the stretch, then
capped the burst with the first of three 3-pointers.
Matt
Whelan (Ridgefield, CT/Ridgefield/Worcester Acad. [MA]) hit two free throws to give the Bullets their largest
lead of the half at 33-15 with 4:24
left. A Scott layup pulled Muhlenberg
within 35-21 at halftime.
Stewart
opened the half with a short jumper to cut the Gettysburg
lead to 12, but Glaser scored nine points on a 14-4 run
that stretched his squad’s lead to 49-27 with 14:49
remaining. Nine points from 1,000, Glaser hit two free throws
at 12:47, drilled a 3-pointer with 9:00 left, then converted a transition
layup on the Bullets’ next
trip to get within two of the mark.
A Muhlenberg
foul sent Glaser to the line with 4:40 remaining and the
Gettysburg co-captain calmly swished both tosses to reach the record
book.
Jakobe finished with eight points on the day while Fromm chipped in with six points, four steals and a team-high
nine rebounds.
Glaser became
the fourth Bullet to reach 1,000 career points in the past
five seasons, but the first to do it in three seasons since
Bill Davidson tallied 1,035 from 1997-2000.
Prior to
Saturday, Gettysburg’s last regular-season victory in Allentown was an 83-61 decision on Feb. 14, 1987. The Bullets had, however, captured CC postseason victories
at Memorial Hall in 2001 and 2002.
Gettysburg returns to action on Wednesday at Ursinus.
Game time is 7:30 p.m.
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