Box Score

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Junior forward Kevin Kennedy (Gaithersburg, Md./Quince Orchard) scored a game-high 20 points and shot 9-for-11 at the foul line as Gettysburg led for all but the opening 59 seconds to hold off Ursinus College 80-71 in a key Centennial Conference match-up on Senior Day at Bream Gymnasium.

Gettysburg (11-9, 9-5 CC), which made 13 of its 16 free throws inside the final three minutes, moved into a tie with Ursinus (13-8, 9-5 CC) for third place in the Centennial Conference; however, the Bullets would own the tiebreaker over the Bears due to their season series sweep. Gettysburg also defeated Ursinus 74-63 back on Jan. 12.

The Bullets and Bears played the only men's basketball game in the Centennial Conference over the weekend due to a major snowstorm that hit the East Coast.

Gettysburg won its third straight game over Ursinus after losing its previous 11 to the Bears.

In a tightly-officiated game, a total of 49 personal fouls were called. Three players fouled out, including junior center Andrew Powers (Boyertown, Pa./Boyertown), who managed to score 11 points before getting hit with his fifth foul with 3:35 left. Ten of the 11 players who entered the game scored a point for the Bullets.

Senior guards Brendan Hager (Berwyn, Pa./Conestoga) and Andrew Bohan (Smithsburg, Md./Smithsburg) made the most of Senior Day, with Hager posting seven points, five rebounds, and five assists and Bohan adding seven points off the bench. Freshman forward Alex Zurn (Brookeville, Md./St. Andrew's Episcopal) contributed 12 points for Gettysburg while sophomore guard Brendan Trelease (Union, N.J./Roselle Catholic) chipped in with 10 points and a career-high four steals.

The Bears received 18 points on 6-of-8 shooting from freshman center Jon Ward while senior guard Remy Cousart had 10 points, six rebounds, and five assists while scoring his 1,000th career point and handing out his 500th assist. Junior guard Matt Hilton scored 13 points while senior guard Keith Page added 12 points off the bench.

After Cousart opened the game with a lay-up, Hager nailed a trey with 19:01 on the clock, and the Bullets would not trail the rest of the way. Hager's three kicked off a 14-2 Gettysburg run that gave the hosts a double-digit lead (14-4) following a Trelease lay-up with 15:15 to go.

Gettysburg equaled its 10-point advantage twice more before the end of the half, the last coming on a Hager lay-in that made it 30-20 with 5:48 on the clock. The Bullets managed just six points and one field over the remainder of the stanza, however, as Ursinus inched to within two. But Bohan drilled a three with 54 seconds left to put Gettysburg up five, and sophomore forward Tim Lang (Boothwyn, Pa./Garnet Valley) hit a free throw with 25 ticks showing to make it a 36-30 game at the break.

The Bullets led by eight with 13:22 to go after a lay-up from freshman center Christian Bors (Lanham, Md./Sidwell Friends [D.C.]) before Ursinus came back with a 9-3 spurt to pull to within two. It was a one-point game (60-59) when Kevin McGarvey knocked down a three for Ursinus with 5:14 to go, but Kennedy answered with a pair of free throws. Ursinus had a chance to tie or cut it to one twice, but Kevin Janowski missed the front end of a one-and-one before McGarvey misfired from beyond the arc.

Powers converted a bucket with 3:49 to go that made it 64-59, but fouled out 14 seconds later. Ward hit a pair of foul shots to pull Ursinus to within three, but that's when Trelease splashed in a big trey with 3:05 to go that made it 67-61. The Bears were unable to get closer than four the rest of the way, as the Bullets salted the game away at the foul line.

Gettysburg resumes its schedule on Wednesday, when it hosts conference frontrunner and 15th-ranked Franklin & Marshall College at 8 p.m.