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THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE WILKES UNIVERSITY COLONELS WILKES UNIVERSITY COLONELS
Steve Finkernagel
60
Elizabethtown ETWN-M 1-4
69
Winner Wilkes University WUMB 4-1
Elizabethtown ETWN-M
1-4
60
Final
69
Wilkes University WUMB
4-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Elizabethtown ETWN-M 25 35 60
Wilkes University WUMB 39 30 69

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Colonel Cagers Shoot Past Elizabethtown 69-60

Colonel Cagers Shoot Past Elizabethtown 69-60
 
WILKES-BARRE – Three Wilkes University players reached double figures including a career-high 20 points from freshman Zachary Brunner (Mechanicsburg, PA/Mechanicsburg) to lead the Colonels past visiting Elizabethtown College 69-60 Tuesday night in the Marts Center.
 
Wilkes moves to 4-1 overall to start the season following the home victory extending its winning streak to four games. Elizabethtown drops to 1-4 after the loss.
 
Wilkes used its pressure defense in the first half to limit the Blue Jays to just 36.4 percent shooting from the field. Brunner added all the offense the Colonels needed in the frame scoring 15 of his game-high 20 points on a perfect 7-for-7 shooting. A Brunner inside score and subsequent foul put Wilkes up 23-14 with 5:41 left in the half. From there, rookie guard John Goffredo (Bangor, PA/Pius X) caught fire from behind the arc canning three straight three-pointers to extend the Colonel advantage to 31-16 with just over three minutes till the break. Another three-point play from Brunner gave Wilkes a 39-25 lead at the half.
 
Elizabethtown made things interesting early in the second half coming out of the gates on an 8-0 run to cut the Wilkes lead to 36-35 with 16:42 on the clock. Wilkes settled in after the Blue Jay spurt scoring back-to-back inside buckets from Brunner and Mason Gross (Hughestown, PA/Pittston) to end the Elizabethtown run. Steve Stravinski (Pittston, PA/Pittston) scored on an old-fashioned three-point play and Tyler Jackson (Cresskill, NJ/Cresskill) added two free throws to up the Wilkes advantage back to double digits at 60-48 with 7:22 remaining.
 
Transition scores from Alec Wizar (Lebanon, PA/Annville Cleona), Stravinski and Brunner capped the final four minutes of offense for Wilkes as the Colonels captured their fourth straight win by seven or more points.
 
Brunner finished 9-for-11 from the floor adding six rebounds and one block in 33 minutes of action. Stravinski followed with 16 points and nine rebounds, while Wizar chipped in 10 points and four rebounds. As a team, Wilkes shot 41.4 percent (24-58) from the floor hitting nine threes on 32 attempts beyond the arc.
 
Tyler Simpkiss led Elizabethtown with 16 points and 10 rebounds, while Phil Wenger contributed 15 points and three boards.
 
Wilkes remains idle through the Thanksgiving holiday break before opening up Freedom Conference play next Wednesday at Eastern University at 8:00 p.m.
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