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SWARTHMORE, Pa. – Senior center Andrew Powers missed a double-double by one rebound, pouring in a game-high 28 points while grabbing nine rebounds as the hot-shooting Gettysburg College men's basketball team downed Swarthmore College 72-59 at the Tarble Pavilion Saturday afternoon in a Centennial Conference (CC) affair.

Gettysburg (11-8, 8-4 CC), which won at Swarthmore for the first time since Jan. 16, 2008, shot a season-best 67.4 percent, just 2.0 percent shy of the school record set last season against Johns Hopkins. The Bullets, who remained a half game in front of McDaniel College for second place in the CC standings, also tied a school record by not missing a free throw, going 10-for-10 at the charity stripe.

Powers shot 11-for-15 and went over 1,800 points for his career. He now has 1,824 points and trails Ron Warner '62 by 56 for first place on Gettysburg's all-time scoring list.

Sophomore guard Derek Brooks added a career-high 15 points on 7-of-8 shooting for the Bullets while senior forward Kevin Kennedy contributed 12 points and six boards.

Sophomore forward Will Gates led Swarthmore (5-13, 2-9 CC) with 23 points on 5-of-9 3-point shooting while freshman guard Jay Kober had 10 points.

The Bullets broke out to a 42-30 halftime lead on sizzling 78.3 percent (18-of-23) marksmanship from the field. Gettysburg outscored the Garnet 23-9 over the final 10:28 of the period, starting with a 3-poitner from sophomore guard Larry Geedey that put the 'Burg in front for good. Five different players scored during the stretch for the Bullets, who made 10 of their final 13 shots in the half.

Swarthmore had the hot hand at the start of the second stanza, opening the period on a 15-4 run that cut the gap to three (48-45) after a Gates trey with 14:26 left. But that's as close as the Garnet would get, and the Bullets gave themselves some breathing room by scoring the next six points.

For the second time against Swarthmore this season, the Bullets held a decided advantage on the glass. After out-rebounding the Garnet by 19 in its home victory earlier this month, Gettysburg out-boarded Swat 32-14 on Saturday.

Gettysburg returns to action on Wednesday, when it visits Johns Hopkins University at 8 p.m. in another Centennial Conference match-up.