News Release

ANNVILLE, Pa. — Senior guard J.D. Byers scored a game-high 31 points and the Lebanon Valley College men’s basketball defeated Dickinson College 66-57 in the Flying Dutchmen’s home opener Tuesday evening at the LVC Gymnasium.

Lebanon Valley (2-1) trailed for most of the second half before a late 10-1 run gave the Dutchmen control.

Dickinson (1-2) was paced by Matt Keys, who scored a game-high 14 points. Keys shot 4-for-7 from three-point range, leading a hot long-distance-shooting Red Devil attack. Dickinson made 12 of 29 three-point attempts for the game.

Byers, who scored 30 or more points for the second game in a row, shot 4-for-9 from three-point range and was 7-for-8 at the foul line. He also handed out a game-high five assists.

Both sides got off to a slow start offensively, and neither team scored until Dickinson’s Travis Doll dropped in a fastbreak layup 2:31 into the game. Lebanon Valley missed its first five field goal attempts before senior center Brad Stigelman converted a layup 3:46 into the contest to make it a 2-2 game.

Stigelman’s bucket sparked a 13-0 LVC run, and the Dutchmen led 13-2 with 12:57 left in the half following a put-back from senior forward Steve Buzinski, who finished the game with nine points, a career-high 14 rebounds, and three blocked shots.

Dickinson answered by outscoring the Valley 20-3 over the next 6:52 and the Red Devils led 22-16 with 6:05 left in the half. Dickinson nailed five treys during the run.

Lebanon Valley trailed 25-23 at the half despite out-rebounding Dickinson 28-17 in the opening stanza, with Buzinski grabbing nine boards. However, the Dutchmen shot just 4-for-12 at the foul line over the opening 20 minutes. Dickinson shot just 26.5% from the floor in the first half but was good on 41.2% (7-for-17) of its three-point attempts.

The Red Devils outscored the Dutchmen 12-3 to start the second half to open up its biggest lead of the game (37-28) with 14:05 left. However, LVC ran off nine unanswered points, with Byers dropping in six, to pull even with 11:30 remaining.

Dickinson led by one (52-51) with 5:41 to go before the Dutchmen’s decisive 10-1 gave LVC a commanding eight-point advantage (61-53) with 1:57 remaining.

Brad Litchfield added 13 points for Dickinson while Mark Harrison had five assists. Junior forward Dan Hogan tore down 10 rebounds for the Dutchmen.

Lebanon Valley shot 45.7% for the game, including a sizzling 57.1% in the second half, while holding the Red Devils to 30.2% shooting. LVC out-rebounded Dickinson 49-30.

Dickinson vs Lebanon Valley
11/23/04 7:30 pm at Annville, Pa.
At Annville, Pa.
LEBANON VALLEY 66, DICKINSON 57
DICKINSON (1-2)
Matt Keys 4-10 2-2 14; Brad Litchfield 5-18 0-0 13; Mark Harrison 2-7 4-4 8;
Pat Coyle 2-7 0-0 6; Dan Sarsfield 2-4 0-0 6; Travis Doll 2-5 0-4 4; Jimmy
Martelli 1-2 0-0 3; Mohamad Carr 1-3 0-0 2; Nick Good 0-3 1-2 1; Jon Skvarka
0-4 0-0 0. Totals 19-63 7-12 57.
LEBANON VALLEY (2-1)
J.D. Byers 10-18 7-8 31; Steve Buzinski 3-9 3-4 9; Jimmy Curran 3-7 2-2 8;
Brad Stigelman 2-3 4-8 8; Hunter Bretschneider 2-2 1-4 6; Dan Hogan 1-5 2-8
4; Matt Polinsky 0-1 0-0 0; Billy Orr 0-1 0-1 0. Totals 21-46 19-35 66.
Dickinson.....................   25   32  -   57
Lebanon Valley................   23   43  -   66
3-point goals-Dickinson 12-29 (Matt Keys 4-7; Brad Litchfield 3-8; Pat Coyle
2-5; Dan Sarsfield 2-2; Jimmy Martelli 1-2; Jon Skvarka 0-2; Mark Harrison
0-3), Lebanon Valley 5-12 (J.D. Byers 4-9; Hunter Bretschneider 1-1; Jimmy
Curran 0-1; Dan Hogan 0-1). Fouled out--Dickinson-Travis Doll, Lebanon
Valley-None. Rebounds-Dickinson 30 (Travis Doll 7), Lebanon Valley 49 (Steve
Buzinski 14). Assists-Dickinson 11 (Mark Harrison 5), Lebanon Valley 10
(J.D. Byers 5). Total fouls-Dickinson 27, Lebanon Valley 18. A-823