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Immaculata, Pa. (Jan. 17, 2011) - Junior center Angela Altemose (Pottsville, Pa./Nativity BVM) scored a career-high 28 points helping Alvernia University (9-6) defeat Immaculata University (8-5) by a 68-62 score Monday evening in non-conference women's basketball at Immaculata.  The win was career number 399 for Alvernia head coach Kevin Calabria.

Altemose scored three points during a game-deciding 7-0 run that put Alvernia up eight, 63-55 with under three minutes to play.  Immaculata came back to cut the deficit to just three points with 40 seconds to go, but Alvernia hit 3-of-4 free throws in the final 20 seconds to secure the win.

Altemose scored 17 points in the first half on 7-of-8 shooting from the floor and 3-of-4 from the line just to keep the Crusaders in it.  Both teams shot 48 percent from the floor and the score was tied at 36-all at the intermission.

Altemose hit 5-of-6 from the floor in the second half and the only free throw she attempted to reestablish her career high.  This is the fourth time in her career she has scored 20 or more.  Her previous high was 22 points in an ECAC Quarterfinal win at Wesley last March.

Julie Hahn (Warrington, Pa./Central Bucks South), who has now reached double figures in four of the last five games, scored 14 for the Crusaders, and Allie Toczylowski (Mantua, N.J./Clearview Regional) added 10.  Kelsey Gill (State College, Pa./State College Area) had a solid game making her fifth straight start with six rebounds and five assists.

Alvernia led by six late in the first half, but gave all that up on an 8-0 Immaculata run before Altemose scored the final bucket of the half to forge the seventh tie of the game at 36-all.  The game featured eight total ties, the last one at 38-all, 36 seconds into the second half.

Immaculata had a three-point lead, it's only of the second half, a few minutes later, but Alvernia erased that with a 9-0 run capped by a Toczylowski layin.

Alvernia held its largest lead of the night, and eight point lead with 11:54 to go.  Immaculata ran off nine of the next 11 points to pull within one, 56-55 before Alvernia's decisive run.

The Crusaders return home for a Commonwealth Conference game on Wednesday against Widener.  It will be Calabria's first crack at career win number 400.  Game time is 6:00 p.m.

Alvernia 68, Immaculata 62