BOX SCORE

York, PA (Dec. 3, 2005) – York College opened up the game with a quick 11-4 spurt and held a 45-31 halftime lead en route to an 83-66 win over Alvernia College Saturday afternoon in non-conference women’s basketball action at Charles Wolf Gymnasium.

            The Spartans were led by freshman Chanel Perez who tallied a game-high 22 points and 10 rebounds.  Kristen Daly and Jess Huntley also reached double figures for York (4-2) with 20 and 14 points respectively.  Keli Ward recorded 11 assists for the hosts.  Alvernia was led by senior guard Mandy Reinhart (Pine Grove, PA/Pine Grove) who came off the bench to score 13.  Juniors Kerry Higgs (Westminster, MD/Westminster) and Camrell Gholston (Westminster, MD/McDonough School) also reached double figures with 12 points apiece.

            Gholston answered both of the Spartans’ first two buckets for a 4-4 tie, but the hosts rattled off seven straight points led by four points from Ward to take an 11-4 lead with 3:25 gone.  The lead grew to 13 points, 21-8 before Alvernia showed some life scoring eight straight points to cut the gap to five, 21-16.  Higgs led the Crusaders with four points over the four minute run.

            York quickly pushed the lead back to nine with four straight points and had its largest lead of the first half, up 16 points, 33-18 with 6:09 left before the break.  Alvernia sophomore Ashley Shrawder (Dalmatia, PA/Line Mountain) canned a 3 to start an 11-2 Crusader run that cut the lead to seven, 38-31 with 1:47 on the clock, but Perez scored seven straight points to double the York lead entering the break.

            York built its lead to 20 points midway through the second half, 68-48, and had the gap as wide as 24 points before settling for the 17 point win.  The Spartans will travel to Messiah College for their next game while the Crusaders are off until January 4 when they host DeSales University.

York 83, Alvernia 66