THE FACTS
Gettysburg (2-2) 60, Eastern Mennonite (1-2) 56
What: Non-conference men's basketball game
When: Saturday, Nov. 19
Where: Gettysburg, Pa.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg put together a 16-5 run in the second half to turn a five-point deficit into a six-point lead, defeating Eastern Mennonite, 60-56.
THE LEADERS
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Jordan Stafford (Galloway, N.J./Saint Joseph Hammonton) led the Bullets with 16 points and 10 rebounds. He also dished out five assists.
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Antonello Baggi (Cremona, Italy, West Deptford [N.J.]) added 16 points and seven rebounds.
FOR THE FOES
• Landon Swingler led the Royals with 14 points and six rebounds.
• Aviwe Mahlong also had 14 points.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• Behind triples from Landon Swingler and DaiJordan Brown, Eastern Mennonite jumped out to a 6-2 lead in the game's first 2:16. An 8-0 Royal burst turned an 8-5 edge into a 16-5 lead with 13:31 to play. The lead remained between nine and 13 before a
Jordan Stafford jumper in the paint eight minutes later trimmed the margin to 27-20. The Bullets closed to within 29-24 before an Aviwe Mahlong 3-pointer with 1:17 to play made it a 32-24 game at the break.
• The EMU lead swelled back to 40-28 four minutes into the second half before
Carl Schaller (Garnet Valley, Pa./Garnet Valley) and
Elijah Williams (Washington, D.C./Sidwell Friends) canned treys on back-to-back possession, cutting the deficit in half. The teams traded points until a Julien Hagerman layup made it 48-43 with 8:04 on the clock.
• After Stafford made it a one-possession game a minute later,
Antonello Baggi scored the next 10 Gettysburg points to put his team in front. A he hit a layup to make it a one-point game, Baggi put his team in front 49-48, banking home an 18-footer from the left wing. After a single Mahlong free throw tied the game, a Swingler layup off a Mahlong steal-and-dish put the visitors back in front by two. Baggi immediately responded with 3-pointer from left corner for a one-point edge. Swingler drove the lane and finished to make it 53-52. Out of a timeout, Baggie drained a triple from the other corner to put the Bullets in front for good with 3:28 on the clock. Four straight points from Stafford stretched the lead to 59-53 before a Mahlong banked triple from the top of the arc cut the deficit in half with 24.0 seconds left. Gettysburg missed the front end of a 1-and-1 on the other end but Williams blocked a 3-point attempt and Schaller hit the front end of the bonus with 3.8 seconds left to seal the win.
THE INSIDE STORY
• The 10 rebounds were a career high for
Jordan Stafford, giving the sophomore his first collegiate double-double.
• Eastern Mennonite hit 6 of 14 from deep in the first half before making just two of the 14 second-half attempts from 3-point distance.
• Gettysburg finished with a 41-31 rebounding advantage.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action at home against No. 10 Johns Hopkins in the Centennial Conference opener on Tuesday. Game time is 8 p.m.
