MADISON, N.J. -- In a game the Elizabethtown College men's basketball team needed to keep pace in the Landmark Conference playoff race, Drew put the Blue Jays in an even tougher spot with a 76-65 win at Baldwin Gym on Saturday. Connor Moffatt led E-town with a team-high 19 points.

Elizabethtown (10-12, 5-7 Landmark) was down ten with 12:45 to go in the first half, but a 9-0 run helped get the Blue Jays back within a point, 19-18, as they held Drew (18-5, 10-2 Landmark) scoreless for over five minutes until Nate Aldrich broke the drought with a layup to make it 21-18.

The Rangers maintained the lead as E-town stayed close. Brandon Berry took a feed from Matt Thomas for a layup plus the foul. Berry sank the free throw and hit all three he took in the game. Berry's three-point play brought the Jays within six with 1:52 left in the first half. The senior hit a jumper with four seconds to go to make it 36-32 at the half.

Moffatt made 45-41 with a layup after grabbing his own miss, but a pair of treys by Darius Reiter and Sky Harris made it a ten-point lead for Drew.

Each time the Blue Jays made a quick run to get the deficit back into single digits, the Rangers would halt E-town and keep it between eight and 12 points. Ethan DuBois found Thomas for a bucket in the paint, but Drew came right back with Harris' jumper. The teams traded baskets late, but Elizabethtown was in too deep a hole to get out of and ran out of time as Riley Collins finished off the came with the final four points for Drew.

13 of Moffatt's team-high 19 points came in the second half. Thomas posted 14 points while DuBois had 12 rebounds. Michael Pastore was also in double figures with 10 for E-town. Collins had a team-high 18 points in the win for the Rangers, who had four reach double digits in scoring. Aldrich hauled down 20 rebounds to lead all players.

Elizabethtown is on the road at Juniata on Wednesday, February 13, at 7 p.m.