Box Score
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Danny Nawrocki
posted game highs with 19 points and seven rebounds to lead Johns Hopkins over
Gettysburg 58-48 in Centennial Conference (CC) men’s basketball action on Wednesday.
Nawrocki connected on 8 of 13 shots from the field, helping
the Blue Jays (5-4, 2-1 CC) post their fifth straight win against the Bullets
(4-6, 1-2 CC) and fourth victory in their last six trips to Bream Gym. The loss
was also the fourth straight at home for Gettysburg, the program’s longest drought
since a six-game home skid in 1996-97.
David
Glaser (West Chester, PA/Malvern Prep) led the Bullets with 14 points
while Kyle McGlensey (West Chester, PA/East) added a season-high
11. Gettysburg’s point total and field goal percentage (.373) were both season
lows.
Effective from inside
the 3-point arc, Johns Hopkins leaned on the forward trio of Nawrocki, Eric
Toback and Zack Armen to grind out the win.
The
Blue Jays never trailed after Jeff Thompson’s short jumper made
it 9-8 with 13:12 left in the first half, taking the lead for good when an 3-pointer
from Armen at the 8:39 mark snapped an 18-all tie.
Matt Whelan (Ridgefield, CT/Ridgefield/Worcester
Acad. [MA]) cut the deficit to 21-20, but Armen scored four points in
a 12-3 run that pushed the Johns Hopkins lead to 33-23 with 1:45 left in the half.
Todd Brady (Hancock, NH/ConVal) drilled a
3-pointer to make it a seven-point game at halftime and the Bullets scored the
first five points of the second half on a Kyle Jakobe (Baltimore, MD/McDonogh/Peddie
[NJ]) 3-pointer and Glaser layup to pull within 33-31.
With Nawrocki providing 10 points, the Blue Jays answered
with a 14-1 run in a span of 6 minutes, 20 seconds to take command. One of the
CC’s most accurate shooters, Nawrocki book-ended the run with a pair of jumpers,
converting a 3-point play in between.
Gettysburg
cut the deficit to single digits when John Pelin (Brockport, NY/Brockport)
hit a 3-pointer to make it 47-40 with 6:01 left, but a pair of treys from Toback
ended any hope of a Bullet rally.
After
hitting 11 of 14 3-pointers in last year’s trip to Bream, Johns Hopkins went only
5-for-16 from behind the 3-point stripe, compensating with an 18-for-32 (56 percent)
performance from elsewhere on the floor. The Bullets shot 19-for-51 on the night,
including a season-low 26 percent (5-for-19) from 3-point range.
Toback finished with 11 points while Armen added 10.
Whelan scored seven points and matched a career high with
five rebounds.
Gettysburg returns
to action on Saturday at Muhlenberg. Game time is 2 p.m.
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