WASHINGTON – Senior forward
Cody Kiefer (Gettysburg, Pa./Gettysburg) posted 19 points and 10 rebounds for his 10th career double-double but it wasn't enough as the Gettysburg College men's basketball team lost 72-59 at hot-shooting Catholic University Sunday afternoon in a non-conference affair.
Senior center
Tanner Kirkpatrick (Carlisle, Pa./Cumberland Valley) added 10 points and five rebounds for the Bullets (2-6), who were playing for the first time in 11 days. Playing in his hometown of Washington, D.C., senior center
Mlynue Reeves (Washington, D.C./Church Farm School [Pa.]) added six points and five boards while junior forward
Cameron Stewart (Sydney, Australia/Newington College) dished out a career-high five assists.
Kiefer made his first free throw of the day but missed his second, ending his consecutive made free throws streak at 24 – one shy of the school record he shares with Ron Warner '62.
Catholic (7-2) led for nearly the entire game and shot 47.2 percent from the field, including 46.2 percent (12-for-26) from 3-point range. Louis Khouri led the Cardinals with a double-double of 27 points and 10 rebounds while shooting 6-for-11 from beyond the arc. Andre Mitchell added 16 points and seven assists while connecting on 4-of-7 3-pointers for Catholic.
The Cardinals used some torrid outside shooting to create a gap early on, making five of their treys over the opening 10:34. Khouri's third 3-pointer of the game made it 19-12 midway through the period, and after Stewart answered with a 3 of his own, the hosts ran off an 11-2 run to open up a 13-point lead (30-17) with 3:40 on the clock.
Kiefer scored five straight points to cut the deficit to eight (32-24) with 1:14 to go. But Riley Hayes answered with a lay-up for Catholic to give the Cardinals a 10-point halftime advantage.
A lay-in from Kirkpatrick 23 seconds into the second half again pulled the Bullets to within eight. However, that's when Catholic embarked on a 12-2 run as its lead ballooned to 18 (46-28) following a conventional 3-point play from Khouri with 15:06 remaining.
Gettysburg refused to go away, however, and chipped the deficit down to 10 (65-55) after a 3-pointer from freshman guard
Joey Carroll (Ramsey, N.J./Ramsey) with 2:34 to go. But Mitchell responded with a triple of his own for the Cardinals and the Bullets were unable to get closer than 11 the rest of the way.
The Orange and Blue take 10 days off from competition before picking up their schedule Dec. 29-30 at the Albright College Tournament. The Bullets will face New Jersey City in a first-round game on Dec. 29 starting at 2 p.m.
