Box Score

ANNVILLE, Pa. - Lebanon Valley received a balanced offensive performance and took care of the ball en route to a 72-63 Commonwealth Conference win over Messiah College Saturday.

The Dutchmen (7-8, 1-3 CC) got their first conference win after dropping their first three by an agonizing eight combined points. The Falcons (3-11, 1-2 CC) relied on the long ball, but shot just 7-for-26 from three-point land.

Kyle Enoch had 16 points to lead all scorers and move within six points of 1,000 for his career. Joe Meehan filled the stat sheet with 13 points, seven assists, and four rebounds.

Sean MacIntosh had 12 points, all on three-pointers, and Dan Dunkelberger added 12 points and seven boards, while Dustin Kerns had 10 points and seven rebounds.

LVC committed just 10 turnovers and went 27-for-35 at the line. Despite the final score, the game was extremely tight throughout, and neither team led by double-digits at any point.

The Dutchmen were keyed by an 8-0 run late in the second half that held Messiah without a bucket for a 4:35 span starting with Meehan's jumper with 5:43 left and ending on Jamie Yoder's three-pointer with 1:08 to go. In the meantime, LVC received five points from Kerns and a free throw from Dunkelberger to take a nine-point lead.

After Yoder's trey cut the lead to six, Meehan sank a pair of foul shots to go back up eight, but Drew Sneeringer gave Messiah some life when he canned a three-pointer with 49 seconds to go. After two Enoch foul shots, Sneeringer made a layup, but Kerns and Enoch then converted back-to-back charity stripe opportunitiesto seal the game. LVC went 10-for-10 at the line in the final minute.

LVC will look for another conference win Wednesday at rival Elizabethtown. Tip-off is set for 8 p.m.