BOX SCORE

Reading, Pa. (Jan. 17, 2008) – Junior forward Terrence Shawell (Pottstown, Pa./Pottstown) scored a game-high 29 points to lead Alvernia College to a 102-75 win over Centenary College Thursday evening in Pennsylvania Athletic Conference men's basketball action at the Physical Education Center.

Sophomore Jon Harvey (East Berlin, Pa./Bermudian Springs) hit a 3 from the top of the arc with 2:00 left in the game putting Alvernia over 100 for both games of a doubleheader sweep over Centenary in its first year in the conference.

Alvernia sophomore Matt King (Phoenixville, Pa./St. Pius X) scored 15 points on 6-of-15 shooting, Zach Westmoreland (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown West) scored a career-high 17 points and junior center Tyrone Bradley (Chester, Pa./Chester) totaled 12 points and 12 rebounds for his second double-double of the season.

Centenary kept the score close in the early going with Corey Kearney (North Arlington, N.J./Queen of Peace) scoring six of its first eight points. Alvernia held a 10-8 lead after the first five minutes and exploded for 12 straight to open up a 14-point lead, 22-8. Shawell scored eight of his 23 first-half points during the streak including his second dunk of the night at the 12:40 mark.

Centenary temporarily slowed the pace on a traditional 3-point play by Andrew Baker (Sparta, N.J./Sparta), but King capped a 7-2 run with his second of two first-half 3s and the Alvernia lead was 16 points, 29-13, 10:57 to go.

The Cyclones stemmed the tide again with a pair of 3s cutting the gap to 10 points with exactly 7:00 showing on the first-half clock, but Alvernia needed less than four minutes to double its lead with four different players scoring during 13-3 run.

The lead remained 20 following Shawell's second 3 of the night, but Centenary scored the final bucket of the half to hit the break down 18 points, 47-29.

Alvernia kept the lead over 14 points for the remainder of the game and stretched it to as many 32 points in the final three minutes of play.

The Crusaders will host Gwynedd-Mercy College on Saturday in a women's and men's doubleheader at 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. Both games will be webcast live through the Alvernia College website, http://athletics.alvernia.edu.

Alvernia 102, Centenary 75