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SWARTHMORE, Pa. – Senior guard Corey Dorsey (Frederick, Md./St. John's at Prospect Hall) scored his 1,000th career point, but host Swarthmore College rallied late to beat Gettysburg 57-53 in a Centennial Conference tilt Saturday afternoon at Tarble Pavilion.

Gettysburg (14-8, 9-7 CC), which lost its third straight game, slips into fourth place in the conference, falling behind Muhlenberg College, which beat Johns Hopkins on Saturday.

Senior guard Dan Capkin (Wynnewood, Pa./Lower Merion) scored 18 points and shot 4-for-8 from beyond the arc to lead the Bullets. He also moved past Scott Lamond '91 for fifth on the school's all-time scoring list. Capkin now has 1,422 points, two more than Lamond.

Capkin shared game-high scoring honors with Matt Allen, who was 4-for-7 from three-point territory.

Dorsey had a chance to make his day doubly special, but he missed a potential game-winning three-pointer with three seconds left.

Swarthmore (2-20, 1-15 CC) snapped an 18-game losing streak and ended a nine-game skid against Gettysburg, topping the Bullets for the first time since Jan. 17, 2004.

The Garnet shot 13-for-14 at the foul line and made their final seven shots at the charity stripe.

Gettysburg led 48-39 with 8:01 left following a Capkin three-pointer before the Garnet ended the game on an 18-5 run. Swarthmore dialed long distance to get back into it, hitting a trio of three-pointers to fuel an 11-0 spurt. Allen kicked off the surge with a trey before Ryan Carmichael sandwiched a pair of threes around two Raul Ordonez free throws to put his team up 50-48 with 3:16 left.

Senior forward Joe Spierenburg (Chambersburg, Pa./St. Maria Goretti [Md.]) tied it up with a pair of foul shots 15 seconds later, but Ordonez answered with a go-ahead lay-up to make it 52-50 with 2:12 left. After the Bullets missed a shot, the Garnet's Sam Lacy was fouled on a three-point attempt, and he buried all three shots to give his team a five-point advantage with 1:20 to go. At the other end, Capkin knocked down another trey, making it 55-53 with 1:06 showing.

Gettysburg then came up with a stop when Swarthmore turned it over with 32 seconds remaining. After a missed shot, the Bullets gained possession on an offensive team rebound before Dorsey's late three-point attempt. Carmichael rebounded and was fouled before setting the final score with a pair of free throws with one second left.

The Bullets never led by more than three in the opening half, and a 9-0 Garnet run midway through the period gave the hosts a 19-9 lead with 9:41 to go. Swarthmore pushed its lead to as much as 11, but Gettysburg reeled off a 12-0 run to end the half and take a 29-28 lead into the locker room.

The second half featured two ties and four lead changes over the opening eight and a half minutes, but a 12-2 Bullet run gave Gettysburg its nine-point lead. Dorsey's three-pointer with 8:31 left that put his team up 45-39 gave him 1,000 on the dot.

Gettysburg plays its final two regular season games at home, hosting conference front-runner Franklin & Marshall on Wednesday at 8 p.m. before taking on McDaniel College next Saturday at 2 p.m.