By STAFF REPORT
Chester
Published Feb 24, 2008 00:06
Nyere Miller scored a career-high 26 points and Charles Jones added 19 to lead host Widener over Elizabethtown 84-68 Saturday in a Commonwealth Conference men's basketball game.
Widener (20-5, 6-4) clinched its 13th 20-win season in school history and is headed to the conference tournament for a third straight year, including a second for head coach Chris Carideo in as many seasons.
The Pride are the third seed in the tournament and visit No. 2 seed Albright in the semifinals at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The other semifinal pits top-seeded Lycoming hosting No. 4 seed Lebanon Valley.
Elizabethtown (15-9, 2-8) trailed by as many as 10 early in the second half, but took a 53-52 lead with 11:41 left on a lay-up from Bryce Rodgers. Mike Schatzmann made 1-of-2 from the line with 10:35 remaining for a 54-52 contest. But the Pride ran off a 17-2 spurt for a 69-56 lead with 6:44 to go.
Chad Piersol scored 19 points, Mike Church had 18 and Schatzmann contributed 11 for the Blue Jays, who shot 44 percent (28-of-64) overall and 2-of-19 from 3-point range.