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ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. ---
Keith Fogel tied his career high with 25 points and
Bryan Harrity set a career best for the second straight game with 23 points to lead Elizabethtown College to an 81-69 win over Arcadia University Saturday at Thompson Gymnasium, clinching a berth in next week's Commonwealth Conference men's basketball playoffs.
The Blue Jays (16-8 overall, 8-6 Commonwealth) are the tournament's fourth seed and will play at top-seeded Lycoming College (20-5, 10-4) Wednesday at 7:00 p.m., while second-seeded Albright College (19-5, 10-4) will host third-seeded Messiah College (16-8, 9-5) in Wednesday's other semifinal game. The winners will meet Saturday at the highest remaining seed for the Commonwealth Conference championship and an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament.
Fogel sank four three-pointers and went 9-for-10 from the foul line to match his career high of 25 points set against Arcadia on Jan. 24, 2009. Harrity, starting at center in place of
Mike Church who was held out to rest an injury, went 10-for-12 from the field to surpass his previous high of 21 points set Thursday night against Lycoming.
As a team, the Blue Jays went 10-for-25 from three-point range and led from start to finish against the Knights (6-18 overall, 0-14 Commonwealth), which received a game-high 25 points from Khalief Trawick. Arcadia shot 50.8 percent (31-for-61) from the field but went just 1-for-7 from three-point range and finished 6-for-9 at the foul line while Elizabethtown hit 13-of-17 free throws.
Behind 16 points from Harrity and 10 from Fogel, the Blue Jays took a 36-25 lead to halftime. Despite shooting 41.2 percent from the field in the half, Elizabethtown led by as many as 18 points and turned 11 Arcadia turnovers into 14 points. Trawick led the Knights with nine points in the first half while Glen Gagnon added eight on 4-for-4 shooting.
In the second half, Elizabethtown led by as many as 17 points before Arcadia cut the deficit to nine at 71-62 with 2:51 remaining. The Blue Jays went 6-for-8 from the foul line in the final minute, including a 5-for-6 performance from Fogel, to secure the win.
Joe Flanagan also reached double figures for Elizabethtown with 12 points and grabbed five rebounds to share the team lead. Off the bench,
Travis Mettler hustled his way to seven points, five rebounds and two steals in 20 minutes of action for the Blue Jays while
Mark Vogel sank a pair of three-pointers and finished with six points.
Trawick was one of four players to score in double figures for Arcadia, as Gagnon went 6-for-6 from the field and finished with 15 points, Jose Ortiz added 13 points off the bench and Renard Smith tallied 10 points.