WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Host Lycoming College led throughout Thursday evening in a 98-78 non-conference men's basketball victory over Shenandoah.

The Warriors (8-3) ran their winning streak to three games with the victory over SU (1-9). The loss is the seventh straight for the Hornets.

Lyco started the game strong, making three of its first four shots from the field and forcing four Shenandoah turnovers to help fuel a 9-0 start to the game.

Senior Mitch Dudley, who had his fifth double-double of the season and third in the past four outings, finally snapped this LC spurt with a layup at 17:45.

The Warriors answered this bucket by scoring 13 of the game's next 21 points to take their largest lead, 12 points, with 13:06 remaining in the opening stanza.

Lyco maintained at least an eight-point advantage until Shenandoah had its best run of the contest in the waning moments of the first.

Trailing by 11 following a Kevin Anthony dunk with 7:39 left, SU scored the next six points to cut the deficit to five by the 5:21 mark.

Unfortunately for the visitors, Will Kelly ended this 6-0 run with a 3-pointer on the Warriors next trip down the floor to swing the momentum back to Lyco.

The three-ball started a 13-2 run over the next 2:31 as the Warriors pushed the advantage into double-digits for the penultimate time in the contest.

Senior Kevin Kline, who now is 55 points for 1000 points in his career, had the opening basket of the second to cut the deficit to single digits for the final time.

Lycoming then went on a 14-2 run over the next five minutes that effectively ended the contest.

Freshman Avery Green paced Shenandoah with 16 points while Dudley added 15, sophomore newcomer Trevor Jones 12 and Kline 10.

Dudley also had a game-high 16 boards.

Mike Bradley had 20 points for the victors.

SU opens USA South Conference play on Wednesday, January 5 at Christopher Newport. This game will be the back-end of a doubleheader with the Hornet women and is scheduled for a 7:30 start.