March 1, 2008

Box Score

COLLEGEVILLE, PA - Johns Hopkins men's basketball senior Doug Polster (Bernardsville, NJ/Bernards) scored 25 points, including 20 in the second half, but it was not enough as JHU lost 80-69 to Gettysburg in the Centennial Conference Semifinals Saturday. The Blue Jays season ends at 16-10, while the Bullets move to 22-3 and will face Ursinus in the title game.

Hopkins got out of the gates slowly as Gettysburg pushed out to a 17-2 lead early in the first. Hopkins called timeout and coming out of the break, went on a 13-3 run fueled by a pair of buckets from junior Scott Weisenfeld (Mt. Kisco, NY/Horace-Greeley). The Bullets answered with seven quick points to take a 27-15 lead. Hopkins once again rallied, cutting it to 28-22 with 6:11, highlighted by a three from Polster. But Gettysburg responded, outscoring JHU 10-5 to close the half and take a 38-27 lead into the break. The Bullets shot 54.7 percent from the floor in the first, while the Blue Jays shot 39.7 percent.

Coming out of the half, Gettysburg continued to push and extended its lead to as much as 18 points and held a double-digit lead until late in the game. Trailing by 15 at 70-55 with 3:31 to play, Hopkins rallied one last time. Sophomore Andrew Farber-Miller (Charlottesville, VA/St. Anne's-Belfield) hit a pair of free throws and then it was all Polster as he hit four consecutive treys to cut it to 74-69 with 39 ticks on the clock. But that's as close as the Blue Jays got as they were forced to foul to stop the clock. The Bullets hit all six of their free throws down the stretch to win 80-69.

Polster was the only Blue Jay to finish in double figures on the day, while three Bullets finished in double figures. Dan Capkin led Gettysburg with 25 and Andrew Powers posted a double-double with 12 points and 12 boards. Senior Kevin Roach (Derwood, MD/Magruder) closed his career with eight boards, two points and two blocks. Polster went 6-of-11 from three-point range to finish his career with 376 attempts and 144 made three-pointers. Both rank fifth in program history. Roach finished with 54 career blocks, 11th all-time.