WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Pressure defense and a 35-14 second-half run lifted the 22^nd-ranked Lycoming College men's basketball team to an 89-70 win over 2017 NCAA Sweet 16 team Susquehanna University on Tuesday evening, Nov. 21, at Lamade Gym.
 
The Warriors forced 30 River Hawks' turnovers that led to 35 Lycoming points as the Warriors ended a five-game losing skid to their nearby rival and started the season 4-0 for the first time since 2010-11.
 
Senior Alex Newbold (Bowie, Md./DeMatha Catholic) hit 7-of-10 shots as he scored a team-high 17 points to go along with seven rebounds, four steals and two assists. Also adding 17 points was junior T.J. Duckett (Severna Park, Md./Calvert Hall), who came off the bench to hit 5-of-10 3-pointers while making two steals. Freshman D'Yante Doughty (Baltimore, Md./Calvert Hall) added a career-high 14 points as he hit 5-of-7 shots and went 2-for-4 from behind the 3-point line.
 
Lycoming (4-0 overall) led by as much as 12 in the first half before Susquehanna (1-3 overall) went on a 19-6 run bridging the first and second halves to take a brief one-point lead with 16:50 remaining in the second half. Susquehanna held that lead for just 15 seconds as the Warriors, over the next four minutes, rebuilt their lead up to 11 and Susquehanna never got back within single digits.
 
In the second half, Lycoming shot over 55 percent from the field, hit 5-of-9 3-pointers and forced 16 Susquehanna turnovers. Eleven of Duckett's 17 points came in the second half as he made 3-of-5 3-pointers, including three straight in a two-minute span that saw the Warriors lead grow from 14 to 20.
 
Senior Chris Wallace (Randallstown, Md./Calvert Hall) added 12 points, a career-high five assists, four steals and four rebounds. Freshman Darius Dangerfield (Abingdon, Md./Harford Tech) scored nine points with three assists and two steals while sophomore Ronald Jefferson (Brooklyn, N.Y./Christ the King) added seven points, three rebounds and three steals.
 
Lycoming had 22 steals with 12 players recording at least one and five with multiple thefts. The Warriors also hit nearly 52 percent of their shots and hit 10-of-21 3-pointers.
 
Jacob Walsh led Susquehanna with a game-high 24 points and seven rebounds. Bryce Butler added 13 points and five rebounds off the bench. Ryan Traub, who coming in averaged 24 points per game, scored 10 with four rebounds.
 
Lycoming is off for Thanksgiving Break, as they return to action on Sunday, Nov. 26, when they host Penn College at 1 p.m. at Lamade Gym.