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ANNVILLE, Pa. - Albright's Zac Shaeffer nailed a bounce-back layup with 4.8 seconds left to lift Albright over Lebanon Valley, 59-57, in a Commonwealth Conference match-up Wednesday night.

The Dutchmen (10-10, 3-5 CC) had a chance to tie or win at the buzzer, but Kyle Enoch's baseline jumper was off the mark.

The topsy-turvey game gave the fans' their money's worth as LVC dramaticly tied the game twice in the final three minutes, first on an Enoch driving layup with 2:18 to go, then on Zach Hoover's kick-out three-pointer with 40 seconds left.

Shaeffer led all scorers with 18 points, and Phil Hall had 17. Grant Becker led LVC with 15 points, with Hoover, Enoch, and Joe Meehan each scoring 12.

Albright turned the ball over 21 times to LVC's 11, negating a good 49 percent shooting night by the Lions.

The Lions held all the early momentum, but LVC erased a nine-point Albright lead with a 9-2 run to end the first half, culminating in Becker's put-back at the buzzer to tie the game at 26 heading into the break.

The Dutchmen quickly took the lead out of the break, but Albright didn't waste time with a 14-4 swing, capped by Andrew Pomager's three-pointer, to go back up nine with 10:44 left in the game.

But Lebanon Valley again erased the lead with a 9-0 run that started and ended with Hoover, first as he nailed a cross-over jumper in the paint and then as he buried a three-point to tie the game at 43 with 8:02 to go.

The Dutchmen couldn't grab the lead, though, and Albright went back up five before Enoch tied the game again with his basket with 2:18 left.

That set up a tense finish that ended with Shaeffer putting up a layup that bounced off the backiron and straight up in the air, falling through the cylinder for the game-winning points.

LVC will be back in action Saturday at Messiah.