THE FACTS
Gettysburg (13-4, 4-1 CC) 69, Swarthmore (11-6, 3-2 CC) 62
What: Centennial Conference (CC) men's basketball game
When: Saturday, Jan. 25
Where: Gettysburg, Pa.
THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg used a 17-5 run that spanned both halves to open up a 16-point lead and then hit 17 of its 25 second-half free throws for a 69-62 win over Swarthmore.
THE LEADERS
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Carl Schaller (Garnet Valley, Pa./Garnet Valley) led the Bullets with 19 points, including going to the free-throw line 12 times for the second straight game, converting 10 of those attempts.
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Nate Williams (Morganville, N.J./St. John Vianney) added 18 points.
FOR THE FOES
• Eddie Paquette led the Garnet with 13 points and seven rebounds.
• Zander Jimenez also added 13 points and five boards, going 9-for-10 from the line.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• After a back-and-forth start to the game,
Lorenzo Carrara (Norwood, Mass./Xaverian Brothers) hit two free throws before a
Nate Williams steal-and-layup began a run that turned a 7-6 edge into 15-6 lead with 13:36 remaining. A
Jordan Stafford (Galloway, N.J./St. Joseph Hammonton) free throw made it a 19-9 game before five straight from Eddie Paquette cut the deficit in half. Cal Hanson trimmed the margin to 23-19 on a second-chance layup with 2:55 to play in the opening half before Stafford drove and converted a three-point play at the other end, starting a run that helped open up a 32-21 halftime lead.
Carl Schaller had five points during the 9-2 burst.
• Williams and Schaller bookended an 8-3 continuation with triples over the first 3:08 of the second half. Swarthmore responded with a 13-3 stretch over 4:39 to close to within six. The final six of those 13 points came from the charity stripe. Four Gettysburg free throws and an
Akim Joseph (Port-au-Prince, Haiti/Notre Dame Fairfield [Conn.]) helped push the lead back to 49-37 with 8:49 to play. The Garnet once again closed to six behind a pair of Jonathan Stump 3-pointers but the Bullets once again had the response, using a flurry of eight quick points to make it a 59-45 game with 4:22 remaining. The lead remained larger than nine points until Brady Kageyama drove to the hoop with 1:25 to play and then hit two free throws with 31 ticks left to make it 66-60. Another Paquette drive-and-score made it a four-point game but Schaller and Stafford combined to hit three of four free throws in the final 20 seconds for the seven-point win.
THE INSIDE STORY
• There were 65 free throws attempted in the game. Swarthmore went 18 of 27 while Gettysburg was 27 of 38.
• The Bullets limited Swarthmore to 26.5 percent shooting in the first half and 30.6 percent for the game.
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Jordan Stafford finished with seven points, five rebounds, four assists and two blocked shots.
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Kosta Radulovic (Podgorica, Montenegro/Perkiomen School [Pa.]) added eight rebounds and three blocked shots to his four points.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action at home against McDaniel on Wednesday. Game time is 8 p.m.
