GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Swarthmore College used a red-hot shooting performance and a big second half to hand the Bullets a 75-58 loss in Centennial Conference (CC) men's basketball action Saturday afternoon in Bream Gym.

The 18th-ranked Garnet (11-1, 5-0 CC), which shot 14-for-23 (60.9%) from 3-point territory, led just 35-30 at the half but broke the game open with a 17-0 run to open the second period.

Jim Lammers led Swarthmore with a game-high 23 points off the bench, shooting 8-for-9 from the field and 6-for-7 from beyond the arc. Sam Lebryk added 13 points for the visitors while Cam Wiley and Zack Yonda contributed 11 and 10 points, respectively.

Senior center Mlynue Reeves made the most of his first career start for the Bullets, posting 12 points and seven rebounds, while freshman guard Nick Antolini netted 11 points. Senior forward Cody Kiefer chipped in with eight points for Gettysburg, which tied a season-high with eight 3-pointers.

It was a game of runs in the opening half, with Swarthmore outscoring the Bullets 14-5 to open the game. Lammers capped the early spurt with his first two 3-pointers.

The Bullets answered with a 10-0 run to claim the lead. Antolini kicked off the surge with his second 3-pointer, and after a Reeves lay-up, sophomore forward Mateus Maccieri banked in a 3-pointer. Antolini capped the run when he came up with a steal and went coast-to-coast for a lay-up to hand his team its only lead of the game at 15-14 with 11:50 on the clock.

Swarthmore responded with a 10-0 run of its own, however, and a lay-up from Zac O'Dell made it 24-15 with 8:57 left in the opening period. However, Antolini snapped the drought for the Bullets when he connected on his third and final trey, pulling the hosts to within 24-18 with 7:45 showing.

Gettysburg chipped away at the deficit and drew to within two when junior forward Cameron Stewart splashed in a 3-pointer with 1:00 to go. But Yonda answered with a triple for Swarthmore, giving the Garnet their five-point halftime lead.

Swarthmore then made a defensive stand early in the second stanza, shutting out the Bullets for nearly seven minutes to start the period. In the meantime, the Garnet shot 5-for-8 to start the half, including 3-for-4 from 3-point land, to assume a 52-30 lead with 13:50 left.

The Bullets refused to go quietly, however, and Kiefer drained a 3-pointer with 13:04 remaining to kick off another 10-0 Gettysburg run. Reeves followed up with a conventional 3-point play before freshman guard Danny Duffey dropped in back-to-back lay-ups to make it a 52-40 game with 9:56 to go.

Another Kiefer 3-pointer made it 55-43 with 8:11 left, but Cam Wiley, Swarthmore's leading scorer who was held to six points up until that point, scored five big points to kick off a decisive 15-2 Garnet run. Lammers drained his two final 3's during the stretch, and a pair of free throws from Yonda made it 70-45 with 4:52 to go. The Bullets would not go down without a fight, however, and ended the game on an 11-3 run, when senior center Tanner Kirkpatrick scored all six of his points.