Box Score

YORK, Pa. – Freshman guard Joe Emerusabe pumped in a game- and season-high 20 points off the bench and the Gettysburg College men's basketball team used outstanding shooting to record a 64-59 victory over York (Pa.) College in its first road game of the season Sunday afternoon at Charles Wolf Gymnasium.

The Bullets (3-2), who won their third game in a row, shot 63.6 percent from the field and 94.7 percent (18-for-19) at the foul line.

Playing its second straight game without leading scorer Alex Zurn, Gettysburg also received a career-high 16 points on 6-of-7 shooting from junior center Christian Bors and 15 points on 5-of-6 shooting from senior guard Brendan Trelease.

The Bullets, who led by nine at the half and never trailed in the second stanza, salted the game away at the foul line, making eight straight free throws in the final 1:33. Gettysburg connected on its last 15 attempts at the charity stripe.

Senior forward Paul Kouvaris led York (3-2) with 19 points and six rebounds while junior guard Julian Watson and junior forward Todd Maciejewski added 12 points apiece.

The Bullets led for most of the first half, and back-to-back Emerusabe buckets put his team up 16-10 midway through the period. The Spartans would chip away, however, and came back to take the lead (20-18) on a pair of Watson free throws with 4:50 remaining. But fueled by nine straight points from Emerusabe, Gettysburg ended the half on a 13-2 run to take a 31-22 advantage into the locker room.

Emerusabe started the run with an assist, feeding Bors on a lay-up that pulled the visitors even at 20-all. The freshman followed up a trey that put the Bullets in front to stay, then nailed four straight free throws. He capped the outburst with a steal and lay-up followed by a pull-up jumper from the right baseline. Bors dropped in a wide-open bucket off a dish from junior guard Derek Brooks just before the first-half buzzer.

Emerusabe had a perfect half shooting, going 5-for-5 from the floor and 2-for-2 at the line en route to a 13-point period. The Bullets shot 64.7 percent (11-for-17) from the field in the half.

Gettysburg pushed its lead to 11 twice early in the second half, the last time coming on a Trelease wide-open lay-up off a Bors pass just over two minutes into the second half that made it 35-24. The Bullets led by nine (48-39) with 9:11 showing after Trelease scored eight straight points, the last coming on a driving lay-up with the shot clock winding down.

Bors knocked down a pair of foul shots in a 1-and-1 situation to make it 52-43 with 5:33 on the clock, but that's when York put together a 9-2 run to draw to within two (54-52) with 2:37 left following a pair of Watson free throws.

It was still a two-point game (56-54) after Kouvaris hit two free throws with 1:56 to go, but that's when the Bullets went to work at the foul line. Bors went 2-for-2 in another 1-and-1 with 1:33 left before Trelease swished a pair to make it 60-54 with 40 ticks showing. Emerusabe's two free throws with 22 seconds left made it 61-55 before an Andrew Pawlyk put-back cut it to four with nine seconds left. But Emerusabe iced it with two foul shots with six seconds remaining.

The Bullets return to Centennial Conference action on Wednesday, when they visit Johns Hopkins University at 7 p.m.