With its win, Lebanon Valley (13-9, 5-6 CC) remains in fifth place in the Commonwealth Conference standings, but the Flying Dutchmen are now just one game out of the fourth and final Commonwealth playoff spot. Susquehanna and Widener both lost Wednesday night and share fourth place at 6-5.
Curran shot 4-for-7 from 3-point range as he moved past Dick Shover ’57 and into 15th on Lebanon Valley’s career scoring list. He currently has 1,238 career points.
Junior forward Peter Ruth shot 7-for-10 and tied a career-high with 14 points to go with nine rebounds for the Dutchmen. Sophomore guard Kyle Enoch added 10 points and five assists.
Moravian (10-12, 3-8 CC) was led by junior forward Chris Earley, who scored a career-high 17 points in 26 minutes off the bench. Ryan Miller added 14 points for the Greyhounds while Mark Franzyshen had 10 points and nine rebounds.
After trailing by as much as 17 in the first half, Moravian rallied in the second half and trailed by only five (67-62) with 1:03 on the clock after a pair of Earley free throws. The Greyhounds were the beneficiary of two missed LVC foul shots with 45 seconds left but were unable to capitalize, as Franzyshen bricked the front end of a 1-and-1 with 36 ticks showing.
Sophomore guard Dustin Kerns and Enoch iced the game at the line, where the two combined to go 4-for-4 over the final 17 seconds.
Lebanon Valley surged to an eight-point lead three and a half minutes into the game, as a 3-pointer from Curran put the Dutchmen up 10-2 with 16:28 on the clock. Moravian whittled the gap down to three (14-11) on a Greg Jones trey with 13:26 to go in the opening half, but the Valley used an elongated 11-4 run to open up its first double-digit lead (25-15) of the night after a lay-up from freshman forward James Shinn with 6:44 remaining.
The Dutchmen put together a 10-2 run late in the half, and back-to-back Curran 3’s gave LVC its biggest lead (38-21) of the night with 1:32 to go. Earley scored a pair of buckets in the final minute to make it a 38-25 game at halftime.
Moravian shot just 39.3% in the opening stanza and went 1-for-10 from 3-point range. Lebanon Valley shot 44.4% and was 5-for-12 from beyond the arc in the first half.
Moravian vs Lebanon Valley 2-7-07 8:00 p.m. at Annville, PA - LVC Gymnasium LEBANON VALLEY 71, MORAVIAN 64 MORAVIAN (10-12, 3-8 CC) Chris Earley 7-12 3-4 17; Ryan Miller 5-13 0-0 14; Mark Franzyshen 5-6 0-1 10; Steve Wenderfer 1-3 4-6 6; Eric Whitman 2-5 0-0 5; Eric Weaver 2-5 0-0 5; Greg Jones 1-5 1-2 4; Michael Clemente 1-5 0-0 3; Matt Devlin 0-2 0-0 0; Chris Bays 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 24-58 8-13 64. LEBANON VALLEY (13-9, 5-6 CC) Jimmy Curran 9-22 0-1 22; Peter Ruth 7-10 0-1 14; Kyle Enoch 3-9 2-4 10; Dan Hodge 4-7 0-1 9; H. Bretschneider 2-9 2-2 6; Dan Dunkelberger 1-4 2-6 4; James Shinn 2-2 0-0 4; Dustin Kerns 0-1 2-2 2; Matt Covucci 0-0 0-0 0; Eric Humphrey 0-0 0-0 0; Brian Wolensky 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 28-64 8-17 71. Moravian...................... 25 39 - 64 Lebanon Valley................ 38 33 - 71 3-point goals--Moravian 8-22 (Ryan Miller 4-8; Michael Clemente 1-5; Greg Jones 1-2; Eric Weaver 1-2; Eric Whitman 1-2; Matt Devlin 0-2; Chris Bays 0-1), Lebanon Valley 7-20 (Jimmy Curran 4-7; Kyle Enoch 2-5; Dan Hodge 1-3; H. Bretschneider 0-5). Fouled out--Moravian-Ryan Miller, Lebanon Valley-None. Rebounds--Moravian 40 (Mark Franzyshen 9), Lebanon Valley 40 (Peter Ruth 9). Assists--Moravian 10 (Michael Clemente 3), Lebanon Valley 15 (Kyle Enoch 5). Total fouls--Moravian 20, Lebanon Valley 14. Technical fouls--Moravian-None, Lebanon Valley-None. A-466