Box Score

CARLISLE, Pa. – The Bullets ended the game on a 20-2 run, but the Gettysburg College men's basketball team came up on the short end of a 67-55 decision at Centennial Conference leader Dickinson College Wednesday night.

Gettysburg (9-11, 7-6 CC), which saw its three-game winning streak come to an end, was led by freshman forward Cody Kiefer (Gettysburg, Pa./Gettysburg), who scored 18 points on 8-of-12 shooting. Junior guard Joe Emerusabe (Derwood, Md./Magruder) added a season-high 12 points while sophomore guard Sango Amolo (Falls Church, Va./McLean) contributed 11 points. Junior guard Sean Gordon (Broomall, Pa./Malvern Prep) notched eight points, six rebounds, four assists, and four steals.

After shooting just 26.1% in the first half, the Bullets heated up to shoot 63.6% (14-for-22) in the second stanza.

Gerry Wixted scored 13 points to lead Dickinson (16-4, 11-2 CC), which jumped out to a 42-16 halftime lead, while Chris Cox posted 11 points and eight rebounds.

With five conference games remaining, the Bullets find themselves a game-and-a-half behind Johns Hopkins University and Muhlenberg College for the fifth and final conference playoff spot. Both Hopkins and Muhlenberg were in action late Wednesday evening.

The Bullets led just once on the evening – after Amolo hit 1-of-2 free throws 53 seconds into the game. Dickinson took the lead for good with a 12-4 run, then extended its lead to 21-5 following a 9-0 spurt.

Emerusabe  snapped a 5:32 scoreless drought for the Bullets when he knocked down a 3-pointer to make it 21-8 midway through the opening half, but the Red Devils would continue to pull away. A Ted Hinnencamp trey pushed Dickinson's lead to 20 and was part of a 10-0 run that put the hosts on top 33-9 with 5:16 left in the period. Kiefer scored Gettysburg's last seven points of the half, including a lay-up with 30 ticks showing.

Back-to-back jumpers from Amolo made it 51-27 with 14:05 left in the game. But Dickinson used an 8-2 run, capped by a conventional 3-point play from Hinnencamp, to extend its lead to 30 with 11:52 to go.

The Devils still led by 30 (65-35) after a Cox dunk with 7:08 left, but the Bullets would not go down without a fight and held Dickinson to a lay-up the rest of the way. An 11-0 run, capped by a lay-in from sophomore forward Kevin Gladstone (Havertown, Pa./Haverford), made it a 19-point game with 3:28 left. Gettysburg would go on to outscore the Dickinson 9-2 the rest of the way, but the comeback ran out of time.

The Bullets pick return to action on Saturday, when they host Muhlenberg College at 3 p.m. in another Centennial Conference affair.