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Reading, Pa. (Jan. 28, 2012) - Senior forward Allie Toczylowski tallied her 1,000th career point during Saturday's Commonwealth matchup between Alvernia University (8-10, 2-6) and Widener University (12-7, 5-3) at the Physical Education Center. Widener defeated its division rivals by a final score of 78-68.

Four minutes into the game Toczylowski caught a pass from teammate Kelli McIntyre (Orwigsburg, Pa./Blue Mountain) and took a short-range jumpshot that bounced twice on the rim before falling in.  With the bucket, Toczylowski becomes the11th women's player in school history to reach 1,000.  She finished with 10 points and stands at 1,008.

"I'm very excited for Allie," said Alvernia head coach Kevin Calabria after the game.  "She's given Alvernia a lot of quality minutes both on the court and in the classroom.  She's going to be a great representative of Alvernia and a great alum." 

Widener came out strong in the opening minutes and took a quick lead that it never surrendered.  Five minutes into the opening half, McIntyre sank a 3 to pull the Crusaders to within one point but that was as close as Alvernia would get. Widener's junior forward Kate Dellinger went on a tear scoring 10 points in the game's first 10 minutes.   She finished with a game-high 19.

As time wound down in the half Alvernia forward Cori Conner (Gloucester, N.J./Gloucester) drained one from 3-point range and the Crusaders scored a layup from Toczylowski as time expired to cut their deficit to seven entering the half.

Both teams opened the second half firing, but once again Widener had the upper hand on both sides of the court applying full-court pressure that the Crusaders struggled to solve.

"We worked on that last night in practice," said Calabria with a tone clearly indicating his disappointment.  "We wanted to throw over the top of the press and I couldn't find anyone last night who could make the throw.  It was there, but we couldn't do it.  We worked on it, we were prepared for it, and we didn't execute it."

Widener's largest lead of the day came at 9:52 when they went ahead by 16. In total, the Pride only shot 33% from three point range, but the nine threes that did fall were enough to clinch the victory.

Alvernia freshman guard, Kaitlyn Yoh (Wernersville, Pa./Conrad Weiser) posted 15 points and five assists and Chelsea Geiringer (Oley, Pa./Oley Valley) recorded her first double-double of the year with a season-high 12 points and 10 rebounds.

The women are back in action on Monday when they travel to Aston to take on Neumann University.

Widener 78, Alvernia 68