Box Score FREDERICK, Md. – Stockton University used a 15-0 run midway through the second half to break open a close game en route to a 68-57 win over the Gettysburg College men's basketball team in the first round of the Rotary of Frederick Holiday Classic, hosted Hood University, Saturday evening.
Sophomore forward
Cam Stewart (Sydney, Australia/Newington College) scored 15 points to lead the Bullets (6-2), who saw their six-game winning streak come to an end. Sophomore guard
Matt England (Warrington, Pa./Holy Ghost Prep) added 11 points while senior center
Kevin Gladstone (Havertown, Pa./Haverford) notched six points, nine rebounds, and six assists.
Gettysburg will now play in the tournament consolation game on Sunday at 1 p.m. versus Hood or Chatham University.
Armin Cane made 4-of-8 3-pointers and scored 20 points to lead Stockton (7-2), the defending New Jersey Athletic Conference champion.
It was a tight contest in the early going, as the game featured five lead changes and one tie over the opening 10:19 in which neither side led by more than four. However, that's when Stockton began to pull away, and a 9-2 run gave the Ospreys their largest lead of the half (30-21) with 4:02 showing.
The Bullets answered with a run to close the stanza. Junior forward
Cody Kiefer (Gettysburg, Pa./Gettysburg) opened the spurt with a pair of free throws and capped it with a baseline jumper just before the buzzer to make it a 34-34 game heading into the intermission.
England scored nine points to lead the Orange and Blue in the opening half while Cane scored 15 points for Stockton.
The back-and-forth action continued in the second half, which started with six lead changes and three ties in the first 7:42 of the period. Gettysburg led 47-46 after a pair of England foul shots, but that's when the Ospreys embarked on their decisive run. Back-to-back 3-pointers kicked off the surge, and a conventional 3-point play pushed Stockton's lead to 14 with 5:11 left.
Junior guard
Pete Christ (Pittstown, N.J./Delaware Valley Regional) stopped the bleeding with a 3-pointer with 4:11 on the clock to make it 61-50. But the Bullets were unable to get closer than 10 the rest of the way.
The game marked just the second all-time meeting between the two teams. Stockton won 59-53 in the inaugural meeting on Dec. 21, 2013 at the Daytona Beach Shootout in Florida.
