WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – With four players scoring in double-digits and senior
Ryan Hollis (Centerville, Md./Saints Peters and Paul) scoring a career-high 20 points on Senior Day, the Lycoming College men's basketball team cruised to a 90-65 MAC Commonwealth win over Stevenson University to close out the regular-season on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 22, at Lamade Gymnasium.
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The Warriors (17-8 overall, 10-6 MAC Commonwealth) will enter the MAC Commonwealth Championship as the No. 4 seed and will host No. 5 Hood on Monday, Feb. 24, at 7 p.m., in Lamade Gymnasium.
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Freshman
Dyson Harward (Danville, Pa./Danville Area) scored 19 points and seven rebounds, junior
Darius Dangerfield (Abington, Md./Harford Tech) added 13 points and seven rebounds and freshman
Jon-Marc Flores-Diaz (San Antonio, Texas/William Howard Taft) finished with 12 points as the Warriors controlled the game for its final 35 minutes.
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With the game tied at 12, the Warriors got out to a tone-setting 11-0 run, which the Mustangs (6-19 overall, 3-13 MAC Commonwealth) never recovered from. Hollis hit a layup, Dangerfield hit two free throws, Flores-Diaz added a layup with Hollis draining a three and Dangerfield adding a two-point shot in a four-minute span.
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Harward's hook shot with six minutes remaining in the half stretched the Warriors lead to 10, Dangerfield added two more layups and sophomore
D'Andre Edmond's (Pflugerville, Texas/Pflugerville) second-chance tip-in gave Lycoming a 19-point lead before two Hollis 3-point daggers gave the Warriors a 48-26 lead at the break.
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The Warriors held more than a 15-point lead for the entire second half. Sophomore
Matt Ilodigwe (Wilmington, Del./Concord) scored nine points and Flores-Diaz had eight of his 12 points in the final frame.
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Edmond had a career-high four assists and tied career-best marks with three blocks and eight rebounds to go with six points.
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Mark Terrell led Stevenson with 23 points as he surpassed the 1,000-point mark in his career and Cam Harris added 12 points, as the Mustangs were limited to 44 percent shooting from the field and 28 percent from 3-point range.
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