A 3-pointer bounced off the rim as time expired, helping Elizabethtown College escape Lamade Gym with an 83-80 Landmark Conference win over the Lycoming College men’s basketball team on Saturday at Lamade Gym.

Senior Ivan Komitski led the Warriors (2-15 overall, 1-9 Landmark) with 25 points, eight rebounds and two assists. Sophomore Connor Shanahan added 19 points and two steals. Junior Isaiah Valentine pitched in 13 points, eight rebounds and two assists, and sophomore Hayden Pardoe, a Central Mountain graduate, notched 12 points, seven rebounds, a block, a steal and an assist.

To kick off the first half, freshman Princeton Layton hit a jumper and Pardoe followed up with a jumper a minute later, taking a 4-2 lead. After Elizabethtown tied the game with a tip-in, Komitski reclaimed the Warriors’ advantage with a layup. With the score tied after Elizabethtown made a series of free throws in the fourth minute, Komitski briefly reclaimed the lead with a layup. Shanahan tied the score, 10-10, in the fifth minute after securing a layup, but the Blue Jays pushed ahead again with a jumper. In the seventh minute, Valentine notched a free throw and two layups to help Lycoming take a three-point lead.

Tied 15-15 after the Blue Jays made a 3-pointer, Komitski hit a free throw, a jumper and a three pointer, securing a four-point advantage in the ninth minute. Elizabethtown immediately fired back with a jumper, a 3-pointer and a layup to claim a 3-point lead again. Valentine made a jumper that returned the score to a one-point gap in the 11th minute. Pardoe earned a layup to claim a nine-second lead, which Elizabethtown met with their own layup. Shanahan tied the game with a free throw with seven minutes remaining in the half. After Elizabethtown hit a layup, Shanahan helped the Warriors reclaim the lead with a 3-pointer and Valentine followed with a two-pointer, as the Warriors led 31-28 with five minutes remaining.

Elizabethtown (7-10 overall, 4-6 Landmark) tied the game 31-31 with free throws, but Valentine immediately responded with free throws of his own, which Elizabethtown matched with two minutes remaining, leading to a tied game at 33-33. The Blue Jays separated in the last minute of play, securing a seven-point advantage, 40-33. In the first half, the teams were tied 10 times.

Elizabethtown kicked off the second half with a jumper, but Layton responded with a tip-in and layup in the first minute. Komitski added a tip-in at the start of the third minute, Shanahan followed up with a layup, and Komitski returned to hit a layup and a free throw in the fourth minute. Shanahan added two free throws in the fifth minute, closing the gap to one point. Snatching the ball mid-court in the sixth minute, Pardoe darted down the court and hit a layup, earning the Warriors a one-point lead, 50-49.

Elizabethtown reclaimed the lead with two layups, but Shanahan tied the score at 53 after hitting a 3-pointer in the seventh minute. Komitski immediately followed up with a 3-pointer. Elizabethtown tied the score with a 3-pointer and then added another 3-pointer, two layups, tip-in, and free throw, bringing the score to 66-56. Valentine hit a layup and Pardoe followed up with a tip-in with nine minutes remaining.

Pardoe returned with a jumper and two free throws less than a minute later, and Layton followed up with additional free throws. Freshman Noah Mathis drained a 3-pointer and Shanahan joined with a jumper, closing the gap to three points. Komitski secured a 3-pointer, bringing the game to 79-74, with less than two minutes remaining in the second half. Komitski added a layup with 30 seconds left in play. After forcing a turnover, Shanahan canned a jumper with 20 seconds on the clock and added two free throws with 10 seconds remaining.

Austin Finarelli led Elizabethtown with 22 points. FInarelli also added two assists and three steals. Rance Russo added 20 points to the board as well as three assists to help Elizabethtown’s efforts.

ELIZABETHTOWN (7-10, 4-6 LANDMARK)

Austin Finarelli 8-15 4-7 22; Rance Russo 7-19 4-4 20; EJ Finney 4-1 0-0 8; Reese Ziegler 2-4 3-4 8; Malik Hudges 1-1 0-0 2; Ben Stanton 2-7 2-2 8; Zuri Harris 3-5 1-1 7; MJ Branker 1-3 3-4 6; Cam Michaels 1-1 0-0 2; Alon Gorham 0-3 0-0 0; Kyle Ratner 0-0 0-0 0; Brian Kennedy 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 29-68 17-22 83.

LYCOMING (2-15, 1-9 LANDMARK)

Ivan Komitski 10-15 2-2 25; Connor Shanahan 6-10 5-6 19; Isaiah Valentine 5-15 3-3 13; Hayden Pardoe 5-7 2-3 12; Princeton Layton 3-10 2-2 8; Noah Mathis 1-2 0-0 3; Gyasi Miller 0-2 0-1 0; Brian Kopp 0-0 0-0 0; Ethan Bomgardner 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 30-62 14-17 80.

Halftime: Elizabethtown 40-33. 3-point goals: Elizabethtown 8-25 (Finarelli 2-4, Russo 2-7, Stanton 2-6, Branker 1-1, Ziegler 1-3, Finney 0-1, Harris 0-1, Gorham 0-2), Lycoming 6-21 (Komitski 3-5, Shanahan 2-3, Mathis 1-1, Pardoe 0-1, Miller 0-2, Valentine 0-5, Layton 0-4). Fouled out: Elizabethtown-none; Lycoming-none. Rebounds: Elizabethtown 36 (Finney 6, Finarelli 6), Lycoming 40 (Valentine 8, Komitski 8). Assists: Elizabethtown 12 (Finney 4), Lycoming 8 (Valentine 2, Komitski 2). Technical fouls: Elizabethtown-none; Lycoming-none. Total fouls: Elizabethtown 15, Lycoming 20. A: 457.