WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Battling through 12 lead changes and 10 ties through the game, the Lycoming College men's basketball team held on for an 80-78 MAC Commonwealth Championship first round win against Hood College, thanks to a final 18 seconds where Lycoming hit its only shot from the field and both of its free throws on Monday night, Feb. 24.
 
Junior Darius Dangerfield (Abingdon, Md./Harford Tech) found senior Ryan Hollis (Centerville, Md./Saints Peters and Paul) to his left as the shot clock wound down and the game clock moved to less than 20 seconds. Hollis stepped back to shimmy off his defender and buried the 3-pointer to give the Warriors a five-point lead (78-73) with 18 seconds remaining and freshman Mo Terry (Severn, Md./Severn School) nailed two free throws with 13.3 seconds on the clock to build a four-point cushion.
 
Michael Riley was fouled beyond-the-arc to go to the line with a chance to pull the Blazers within one, but only hit one free throw with seven seconds remaining. The Blazers forced a turnover, as the ball ricocheted off the Hood bench on an inbounds pass that drew a swarm. Hood was given the ball and had a chance to win at the buzzer, but the shot fell off back of the rim.
 
With the win, the Warriors (18-8 overall) advance to the MAC Commonwealth semifinal at top-seeded Widener (19-6 overall) on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 6 p.m.
 
Terry led a quartet of Lycoming double-digit scorers with 18 points and finished a rebound shy of a double-double and Dangerfield scored 16 points and an assist shy of a double-double. Freshman Dyson Harward (Danville, Pa./Danville Area) and sophomore D'Andre Edmond (Pflugerville, Texas/Pflugerville) used their big bodies as Harward  had a 14-point, 12-rebound performance and Edmond added 10 points as Lycoming scored 34 points in the paint and was 19-of-22 at the foul line.
 
With the Warriors holding a 40-37 lead at the break, Hood (16-10 overall, 9-8 MAC Commonwealth) regained a three-point lead after Evan Wang and Tyler Evans both hit a long-distance shot while the Blazers built the game's largest lead at nine (63-54) with nine minutes to play. Lycoming used three minutes and an 11-2 run to re-tie the game at 65 when Dangerfield found sophomore Matt Ilodigwe (Wilmington, Del./Concord) in the left corner for a 3-pointer with 6:20 to go.
 
The teams played through three more ties before Terry ran the baseline and was fouled underneath with 2:13 left which gave the Warriors the final lead of the night, as he completed the old-fashioned three-point play to make it 74-72. After each team hit a free throw in the ensuing minute, a leaping Dangerfield cut off a pass to set up the possession where Hollis hit his 3-pointer.
 
Four Blazers finished with double-digits as Mason Wang scored 18 points and four assists, Evan Wang scored 17 points and five assists and Kobe Butler and Tyler Evans finished with 10 and 13 points, respectively.
 
The Warriors and Blazers traded six lead changes and five ties as neither team built more than a six-point lead in the first half.