DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – For the second game in a row, the Gettysburg College men's basketball team put up an impressive rally, but this time the Bullets came up just short, falling 59-53 to Richard Stockton College in their second and final game of the Daytona Beach Shootout.

Gettysburg (4-6), which erased a 12-point deficit in its win over Berry College on Friday, trailed by 22 with 13:24 left only to come storming back. A 15-2 run, capped by a 3-pointer from sophomore guard Sango Amolo (Falls Church, Va./McLean), cut the deficit to three (56-53) with 53 seconds left. However, the Bullets missed their final six field goal attempts as the Ospreys (9-1) held on.

Amolo shot 4-for-6 from 3-point range to finish with 12 points for the Bullets while senior forward Connor Poston (Ambler, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) added 10 points. Junior guard Sean Gordon (Broomall, Pa./Malvern Prep) contributed eight points and 11 rebounds while freshman center Mlynue Reeves (Washington, D.C./Church Farm School [Pa.]) blocked three shots.

Josh Blamon scored a game-high 19 points to lead Richard Stockton, which received votes in the latest D3hoops.com Top-25 poll. Nnamdi Usuwa added 12 points while Rameel Johnson grabbed 11 rebounds.

The Bullets led 7-3 in the early going, but a 13-0 Stockton run that spanned over six minutes gave the Ospreys a 24-12 lead with 5:42 on the first-half clock. Gettysburg answered with a 7-0 spurt, capped by a Gordon 3-pointer with 2:08 to go, but the Ospreys responded with a 7-0 run of their own to assume a 31-19 halftime lead.

Stockton continued to pull away in the second period, opening the stanza on a 12-2 surge as its lead ballooned to 43-21 with 16:23 showing. The Ospreys still enjoyed a 22-point lead nearly three minutes later, but the Bullets kept within striking distance, using a 14-4 run to reduce the deficit to 12 (50-38) with 6:55 left. Freshman guard Pete Christ (Pittstown, N.J./Delaware Valley Regional) kicked off the run with a 3-ball, and freshman forward Cody Kiefer (Gettysburg, Pa./Gettysburg) capped it with a jumper.

The Bullets still trailed 54-38 with 5:13 left before their final push. The Orange and Blue scored 10 unanswered points, starting with treys from Amolo and junior guard Joe Emerusabe (Derwood, Md./Magruder) sandwiched around a Poston lay-up. A Gordon bucket made it 54-48 with 1:43 left.

After Stockton went 1-for-2 at the foul line, Emerusabe canned a pair of foul shots with 1:07 to go that made it 55-50. The Ospreys again split a pair of free throws before Amolo's late trey.

Rameel Johnson converted a lay-up for Stockton with 48 ticks showing to make it 58-53. Poston then missed the front end of a 1-and-1, but after Kiefer gathered the rebound the Bullets missed two ensuing field goals. Blamon then set the final score with 22 seconds left, hitting 1-of-2 at the charity stripe. Gettysburg would miss four shots – including three from beyond the arc – inside the final 16 seconds.

The Bullets take 13 days off before returning to action on Jan. 4, when they host Randolph-Macon College in a non-conference tilt at 2 p.m.