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COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – Ursinus College wiped out a 15-point second-half deficit and the host Bears defeated the Bullets 67-59 in a Centennial Conference men's basketball game Saturday afternoon in Helfferich Hall.

Jon Ward scored a game-high 20 points for Ursinus (8-13, 7-7 CC), which in the second half shot 55.6 percent and outscored Gettysburg 43-28. Matt Donahue added 14 points while Pat Vasturia scored 10 points for the Bears, who salted away their win by going 6-for-7 at the foul line inside the final 35 seconds.

Four Bullets – senior forward Tim Lang, junior center Christian Bors, freshman guard Sean Gordon, and junior forward Alex Zurn  – all finished with 12 points. Lang notched a season-high point total while Zurn also grabbed seven rebounds.

With the loss, Gettysburg (9-12, 6-8 CC) finds itself tied for seventh place in the conference standings with four league games remaining.

The Bullets led 31-24 at the half and scored eight unanswered points to start the second period – capped by a conventional 3-point play from Lang – to open up their 15-point advantage. However, the Bears came back with a 21-5 run over the next eight minutes, and Ryan Adams' jumper at the 7:31 mark gave Ursinus its first lead (47-46) since it was 16-15.

Gettysburg would come back to tie it twice but was unable to reclaim the lead. A pair of free throws from Zurn with 1:48 left made it 58-57, but Ward answered with an old-fashioned 3-point play, kicking off a 9-2 Ursinus run to end the game. The Bullets got to the foul line twice in the final 1:11 but were 0-for-5.

Ursinus outscored the Bullets 16-10 to open the game but Gettysburg answered with a 17-4 run to go up 27-20 with 4:34 left in the first half. Six different Bullets scored during the stretch, which was capped by a lay-up from Lang.

Gettysburg hits the road again on Wednesday, when it visits eighth-ranked Franklin & Marshall College at 8 p.m.