Box Score

SWARTHMORE, Pa. – Junior guard Alex Zurn scored a game-high 24 points and Gettysburg outscored Swarthmore 29-5 over a 12:15 stretch spanning both halves as the Bullets cruised by the Garnet 67-43 Monday evening in the Tarble Pavilion.

Gettysburg (6-7, 3-3 CC), which never trailed after opening the game on an 18-5 run, closed the first half with a 9-3 spurt to take a 31-24 halftime lead. The Bullets then blew it open with a 20-2 outburst to open the second half.

Freshman guard Joe Emerusabe added 13 points for the Bullets, who shot 56.0 percent from the field – their second-best mark of the season. Junior center Christian Bors added 10 points while classmate Benjamin Constable notched eight points and eight rebounds. Freshman guard Sean Gordon contributed nine points and four assists for the visitors.

Will Gates tallied 15 points and six rebounds for Swarthmore (1-12, 1-5 CC).

Zurn, who shot 10-for-14 from the floor, helped fuel the Bullets fast start, scoring nine straight points in the middle of the team's early run. A pair of Constable free throws gave Gettysburg its 18-5 lead, but that's when Swarthmore answered with an 11-1 run to make it a 19-16 game after a 3-pointer from Michael Giannangeli with 9:57 left in the half.

Both teams would then hit a cold stretch offensively, as the two sides failed to score for nearly a six-minute stretch. Gordon snapped the drought when he canned a trey from the top of the arc with 3:59 showing, but the Garnet would trim the deficit to one (22-21) on a Gates lay-up 28 seconds later before the Bullets embarked on their elongated run to break it open.

After scoring 12 points on 5-of-7 shooting in the opening half, Zurn picked up right where he left on in the second stanza, pouring in eight of the team's first 10 points. He would account for 12 of the Bullets 20 points during their decisive run to start the half, and a triple from Gordon with 8:07 remaining handed Gettysburg its largest lead of the night at 60-32.

The Bullets resume their schedule on Thursday, when they host Ursinus College at 8 p.m. in another Centennial Conference showdown.

GETTYSBURG (6-7, 2-4)
Alex Zurn 10-14 2-2 24; Joe Emerusabe 6-10 0-1 13; Christian Bors 5-9 0-0
10; Sean Gordon 3-5 1-2 9; Benjamin Constable 3-6 2-6 8; Larry Geedey 1-1
0-0 2; Mark Staub 0-0 1-2 1; Christian Healy 0-0 0-0 0; Connor Poston 0-0
0-2 0; Brendan Trelease 0-2 0-0 0; JoJo Savaglio 0-1 0-0 0; Mark Siden 0-2
0-0 0. Totals 28-50 6-15 67.
SWARTHMORE (1-12, 1-5)
Will Gates 6-15 0-0 15; Michael Giannangeli 4-7 0-0 9; Jay Kober 2-11 3-3 8;
Joe Keedy 2-6 0-0 4; Eugene Prymak 1-1 0-0 2; Davis Ancona 1-1 0-0 2; Marc
Rogalski 1-4 0-0 2; Matt Sharma 0-0 1-2 1; Jordan Cheney 0-3 0-0 0; Dominic
Rizzo 0-2 0-0 0; Jordan Martinez 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 17-53 4-5 43.
Gettysburg....................   31   36  -   67
Swarthmore....................   24   19  -   43
3-point goals--Gettysburg 5-13 (Sean Gordon 2-3; Alex Zurn 2-4; Joe
Emerusabe 1-4; Brendan Trelease 0-2), Swarthmore 5-19 (Will Gates 3-9; Jay
Kober 1-4; Michael Giannangeli 1-2; Marc Rogalski 0-2; Dominic Rizzo 0-2).
Fouled out--Gettysburg-None, Swarthmore-None. Rebounds--Gettysburg 37
(Benjamin Constable 8), Swarthmore 28 (Will Gates 6). Assists--Gettysburg 18
(Sean Gordon 4), Swarthmore 10 (Michael Giannangeli 4). Total
fouls--Gettysburg 10, Swarthmore 16. Technical fouls--Gettysburg-None,
Swarthmore-None. A-113