THE FACTS
Johns Hopkins (14-6, 8-0 CC) 72, Gettysburg (15-5, 6-2 CC) 66
What: Centennial Conference (CC) men's basketball game
When: Wednesday, Feb. 5
Where: Baltimore, Md.
THE SKINNY STORY
Johns Hopkins used a 9-0 second-half run, holding Gettysburg without a point for nearly five minutes in the process to open up a late seven-point lead and win, 72-66.
THE LEADERS
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Jordan Stafford (Galloway, N.J./St. Joseph Hammonton) led the Bullets with 25 points on 11 of 21 shooting. He also had three rebounds and three assists.
FOR THE FOES
• Charlie Jackson led the Blue Jays with 17 points and seven rebounds.
• Brian Johannson also scored 17 points while adding five rebounds and two steals.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• Tied at 4-all,
Akim Joseph (Port-au-Prince, Haiti/Notre Dame Fairfield [Conn.]) drove and hit a layup with 17:09 to play for a 6-4 edge. Trailing 10-7, Wyatt Eglinton Manor hit a jumper and Charlie Jackson canned a pair of free throws for an 11-10 edge with 14:36 on the clock. Tied at 14-all, three Gettysburg triples, including two from
RJ Bennett (Hartford, Conn./Taft School), accounted for a 9-2 run to open up a 23-16 lead midway through the opening half. Johns Hopkins closed to within 23-20 but Gettysburg responded with five straight to push the advantage to eight with 7:13 remaining. A 6-1 Blue Jay run over a 3-minute, 44-second span closed the deficit to 34-32 but Joseph found
Lorenzo Carrara (Norwood, Mass./Xaverian Brothers) under the basket to push the lead back to four in the final minute of opening stanza.
• After a Brian Johannson 3-pointer closed the deficit to 36-35,
Carl Schaller (Garnet Valley, Pa./Garnet Valley) and
Nate Williams (Morganville, N.J./St. John Vianney) each hit layups for a 40-35 lead. Five straight points from Charlie Jackson tied the game with 15:48 showing. After a back-and-forth, nine Blue Jay points in a row, including four from the line, opened up a 60-53 lead for the hosts with 6:03 on the clock. A Schaller 3-pointer snapped a 4-minute, 42-second scoring drought and trimmed the margin to four but Jeb Williams responded with a layup on the other end to push the advantage back to six with 3:46 to play. After Schaller found a cutting Stafford to close the deficit to 62-60, the Blue Jays countered with a quick five points to extend the advantage back to seven with 1:51 remaining en route to the six-point win.
THE INSIDE STORY
• With the Johns Hopkins win, the Blue Jays complete the season sweep and remains unbeaten in conference play and now hold a two-game lead on Gettysburg with five games to play.
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Nate Williams added 16 points for the Bullets.
NEXT UP
Gettysburg returns to action at Muhlenberg on Saturday. Game time is 1 p.m.
