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National Collegiate Athletic Association February 14, 2012
Gettysburg’s 83-69 men’s basketball victory over Washington College on Saturday didn’t end on a buzzer beater, but it sure was a one-point win for Bullets’ senior guard Cory Weissman.
Weissman, who suffered a life-threatening stroke while weight training during the off-season of his freshman year, had worked his way back to the team but hadn’t played a single minute until this game – on Senior Day. Gettysburg coach George Petrie started Weissman and then subbed for the player who still struggles to run because of the stroke that at one point left him paralyzed on one side of his body.
With under a minute to play and the game decided, Petrie reinserted his motivational senior. After a Washington basket with 19 seconds left, Shoremen coach Rob Nugent called a timeout. On the inbounds pass, some media accounts say that Weissman drew a foul, but what actually happened was that Nugent instructed his team to foul Weissman.
Because Gettysburg was in the double bonus, Weissman, who hadn’t scored a point in his career, had two chances to do so in his final game. He missed the first, but the fairy tale was completed with a swish on the second, much to the delight of the home crowd.
“There was not a dry eye in the place,” said Gettysburg Athletics Director David Wright.
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