Peter Harding vs. Merchant Marine 12/12/15
Matthew O'Haren
67
Elizabethtown ETOWN 2-10, 0-4 LC
101
Winner Catholic CUA 9-4, 2-2 LC
Elizabethtown ETOWN
2-10, 0-4 LC
67
Final
101
Catholic CUA
9-4, 2-2 LC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Elizabethtown ETOWN 38 29 67
Catholic CUA 56 45 101

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

Preseason favorite Catholic runs by men's basketball

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Catholic, the Landmark Conference preseason favorite, connected on 18 3-pointers Tuesday evening to keep Elizabethtown winless in league play, 101-67, at the DuFour Center in the nation's capital.

Peter Harding led three Blue Jays in double figures with a career-high 17 points on 5-of-8 shooting and a 3-of-6 effort from downtown. Jamil Pines-Elliott had 11 and Josh Eden 10, but it wasn't enough to end a slide that has reached five games.

Elizabethtown (2-10, 0-4 Landmark) led twice in the opening three minutes and much like it did at Scranton last Saturday, gave the defending Landmark runner-up Cardinals a fight for the better part of the first half.

Harding dropped back-to-back treys to pull E-town within 24-19 at the 12:21 mark, but CUA responded with nine in a row to push its lead back to 14.

The Blue Jays simply couldn't keep pace with the hosts. They allowed 56 points in the first half and were never able to get closer than 14 the rest of the way.

Despite the matchup issues Catholic (9-4, 2-2) presented, Harding was hot in the first half. Three days after equaling his career-high with nine points, the junior guard from Orwigsburg put that number in his rearview mirror with 15 before halftime. Harding made 5-of-6 shots and 3-of-4 from deep to pace the Blue and Gray. Eden followed with 10 on 5-of-8 shooting.

Even with E-town putting up a respectable 38 points, it wasn't enough. Seven different Cardinals canned threes, including three from Kyle Phanord, as CUA made 11 in the first half. When they weren't chucking it up, the hosts found Jay Howard down low for 15 of his game-high 19 points.

Howard had seven rebounds, six assists and three steals to fill out his stat line. Corey Stanford produced a double-double of 17 points and 11 boards, with Phanord and Louis Khouri (4-of-6 3FG) adding 12 points apiece.

Elizabethtown's efficiency on offense was solid. The Jays shot 53.2% (25-of-47) from the floor, topping the Cards' 45.9% (34-of-74), but could not overcome 14 more triples by CUA and a 14-turnover deficit (20-6).

Matt Ziegler finished with nine points for the Blue Jays, Tommy James seven and Dylan Krieger six to go with a team-high six rebounds. Five Jays finished with four boards or more in the contest.

Elizabethtown hosts early season surprise, Juniata, which sits at 3-1 in Landmark play after a 69-62 win over Goucher Tuesday night, Thursday evening at 7 p.m.
 
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