Box Score
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Gettysburg held a seven-point lead midway through the second half, but McDaniel College rallied to get by the Bullets by a final of 52-47 in a Centennial Conference men's basketball tilt Wednesday evening in Bream Gymnasium.
The Bullets (6-10, 4-5 CC) led 39-32 with 9:49 remaining but struggled to find their offense the rest of the way en route to a season-low scoring total.
Gettysburg shot 28.0% for the night but held McDaniel (12-4, 7-2 CC) to 31.9% shooting – a season-low for a Bullet opponent. The Green Terror's 52 points were also the fewest allowed by the Orange and Blue this season.
Sophomore guard
Sango Amolo (Falls Church, Va./McLean) led the Bullets with 14 points while freshman forward
Tanner Kirkpatrick (Carlisle, Pa./Cumberland Valley) added 12 points and eight rebounds.
Wesley Brooks scored a game-high 16 points while shooting 4-for-6 from 3-point range and grabbing nine rebounds to lead McDaniel.
It was a defensive battle right from the start, and it was just 9-8 in favor of the Bullets with 11:19 remaining in the opening half. Gettysburg then suffered a scoring drought of over five minutes, but still trailed just 13-9 before junior guard
Sean Gordon (Broomall, Pa./Malvern Prep) sunk two free throws with 5:59 on the clock.
The Bullets came back to take the lead (18-17) on a pair of foul shots from senior center
Connor Poston (Ambler, Pa./Hatboro-Horsham) with 1:57 left in the half. McDaniel would lead 21-20 at the intermission.
Gettysburg outscored McDaniel 17-9 to open the second stanza, with Amolo and Kirkpatrick capping the spurt with back-to-back 3-pointers to hand the Bullets their first seven-point advantage. Kirkpatrick dropped in a pair of free throws to make it 39-32, but the Terror answered with a 10-3 run to take the lead for good after Brooks knocked down a pair at the charity stripe with 4:49 to go.
McDaniel held on by making 4-of-6 free throws inside the final 46 seconds.
Gettysburg returns to the court on Saturday, when it visits Washington College in another Centennial Conference match-up beginning at 4 p.m.
