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Elizabethtown, Pa. (Nov. 15, 2008) - Senior forward Tyrone Bradley (Chester, Pa./Chester) scored four of his game-high 19 points in a 6-0 run as Alvernia University trimmed a 10-point deficit to four with 1:33 to play, but the Crusaders missed five straight shots over the next 60 seconds and Elizabethtown College held on for a 68-63 win Saturday afternoon in non-conference men's basketball action at Etown.

Bradley ran into foul trouble and only played 25 minutes, but still finished just one rebound shy of a double-double with nine caroms.  Senior #Jeff Amponsah# (Far Rockaway, N.Y./Carson Long Military Academy) threw in 11 points and four rebounds, but was one of three playaers with five or more turnovers as the Crusaders finished with 24 on the day.  Etown got a team-high 17 points from reserve Joe Flanagan.

Etown responded to an 11-11 tie, the third of the day, with an 11-0 run and took a commanding 11-point lead with just better than four minutes left in the half.  That lead grew to 13 points on three separate occasions, but Alvernia scored the final three points of the half to enter the break down 31-21.

The host Blue Jays pushed the lead to 14 points early in the second half, but Alvernia pieced together a 10-0 run midway through the frame to cut a 13-point deficit down to three points, 46-43 with 8:16 to play.  Junior guard Charlie Hughes (Kenhorst, Pa./Governor Mifflin) paced the Crusaders' efforts over the four-minute run with five points including one of his two 3-point field goals.

Etown answered with a 7-1 run to build the lead back to 10 and held the same spread with 2:43 to play before Alvernia's final push.

The Crusaders return to Reading to play at Albright in a women's and men's doubleheader on Tuesday.

Elizabethtown 68, Alvernia 63