BOX SCORE
Maui, Hawaii. (Nov. 24, 2006) – Alvernia College sophomore Terrence Shawell (Pottstwn, PA/Pottstown) knocked down a 3 from the left corner with 4:54 to play to knot the score at 54-all, but George Fox finished the game with nine of the last 11 points for a 63-56 win over Alvernia Friday afternoon in game eight of the US Bank – Whitworth Maui Invitational at Kamehameha High School.
The Bruins (3-1) got a game-high 16 points from Phil Hue-Weller (Olympia, WA/Claremont Mudd Scripts College) including a big 3 from the corner as the shot clock ran out that stopped a 10-0 Alvernia run midway through the second half. Junior guard Brent Satern (Silverton, OR/Silverton) finished with 13 points and a game-high nine assists. Shawell paced the Crusaders (2-2) with 17 points and Matt King (Phoenixville, PA/St. Pius X) and Garrett Etzel (Shillington, PA/Governor Mifflin) added 10 points apiece.
Both teams opened the game shooting well from the floor and the Crusaders held a six point lead, 9-3, with three minutes gone. George Fox kept up the hot shooting connecting on nearly 80 percent of its shots in the early going. The Bruins quickly erased the six point deficit and built a 13 point lead at the 11:05 mark. Chris Parker (Aloha, OR/Aloha) kicked off what amounted to a 15-0 spurt with five straight points, and when Satern dropped in a layup the Bruins were up 24-11.
Alvernia reserve Nick Rivera (Reading, PA/Holy Name) stopped the drought with a layup assisted by Zach Westmoreland (Downingtown, PA/Downingtown West) and scored again in the post a minute later to start a 6-0 Alvernia run capped by Etzel’s jumper at 8:16.
George Fox scored eight of the next nine points capped by a Parker layup to push the gap to 14 points, its largest of the first half at 34-20 with 5:28 on the clock. Etzel hit a pair of free throws and King knocked down a 3 from the right elbow to pull within nine, and Shawell hit a pair from the line sending the Crusaders to the locker room down eight, 35-27.
George Fox cooled off to finish the first half 12-for-28 from the floor, a 43 percent effort, and Alvernia was saddled with foul trouble having three players, Etzel, King, and senior guard Ryan Finger (Lancaster, PA/Lampeter Strasburg) heading to the break with three fouls apiece.
Parker opened the second half with a layup for the Bruins and after five straight from the Crusaders cut the gap to five points, 37-32, Heu-Weller knocked down a 3 that started a 7-0 streak that put the Bruins up 44-32 with 16:15 to play. King hit his second of three 3s to start the Crusaders’ ensuing 10-0 run.
Finger scored on a layup to pull Alvernia within two, 44-42, at the 13:17 mark and it appeared the Crusaders would get the ball back with a chance to tie or take the lead, but Heu-Weller was pure on a fading 3 from deep in the left corner. The Bruin lead quickly went back to eight when Hue-Weller stroked a 3 on the next possession, and the Crusaders eventually pulled even on Shawell’s 3 with just under five minutes to play.
Brady Strutz (Oregon City, OR/Oregon City broke the 54-all tie with 2:48 to play and Mark Metzler (Brookings, OR/Brookings-Harbor), Satern, and Strutz all scored on layups in the final two minutes.
George Fox 63, Alvernia 56
