Dec. 12, 2002

Box Score

Gettysburg, PA - The Gettysburg College men's basketball team exploded for a 17-0 run in the second half to break open a close game and defeat No. 17 Johns Hopkins, 70-53, Thursday night at Hen Bream Gymnasium.

The Bullets improve to 5-3 overall and 2-0 in Centennial Conference with the win, while Hopkins ends its December schedule 6-2 overall and 1-1 in league play.

After a closely contested first half in which there were nine lead changes, Gettysburg took a 24-22 lead into halftime on a Kyle Jakobe three-pointer with four seconds remaining in the half. The Bullets extended their advantage to 40-31 with 13:32 remaining, but the Blue Jays answered with a 12-0 win over the next four minutes to take a 43-40 lead.

Senior forward Jay Kreider (Sykesville, MD/River Hill), who scored a career-high 26 points in the game, hit a three-pointer at the 11:56 mark to cut the Gettysburg lead to six, and after a Bullet turnover JHU sophomore forward Marc Leone (Radnor, PA/Radnor) hit a three-pointer to make it a 40-37 game with 11:10 left.

Less than a minute later Hopkins senior forward Steve Adams (Butler, PA/Butler) found Kreider for a three-pointer to tie the game, and following a Bullet timeout, Kreider hit another three-pointer off an assist from Adams with 9:26 remaining to give the Blue Jays their first lead of the half.

However, Gettysburg would go on a 17-0 run over the next six minutes to take a commanding 57-43 advantage with 3:31 left. Dami Oloruntoba started the spurt with a three-pointer to tie the game and added two free throws at the 7:16 mark to give the Bullets the lead for good.

Todd Brady added a lay-up and two free throws for Gettysburg to make it a six-point game, and David Glaser and Oloruntoba hit consecutive three-pointers to give the Bullets a 55-43 lead with 3:36 left. Glaser capped the run with two free throws, and Hopkins could not cut the deficit below 11 the rest of the way.

Gettysburg, which went 14-for-20 from the field in the second half and shot 55.8 percent for the game, had four players score in double figures. Glaser recorded a team-high 16 points, while Brady added 15 and Oloruntoba chipped in 15 while pulling down a game-high nine rebounds.

The Blue Jays were led by Kreider, who hit 9-of-16 shots, including 6-of-12 from behind the arc, and grabbed a team-best six rebounds. Adams added nine points and tied a career-high with five assists, but no other Hopkins player scored more than three points as the Blue Jays had their three-game winning streak snapped.

JHU returns to action on January 4 when Hopkins faces John Carroll University at 5:30 p.m. in Springfield, MA, in the first round of the Naismith Classic.

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