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2/23/08 -- Nyere Miller (Washington, DC) scored a career-high 26 points and fellow junior Charles Jones (Philadelphia, PA) added 19 for Widener in an 84-68 Commonwealth Conference victory over Elizabethtown at Schwartz Center.

Widener (20-5, 6-4 CC) clinched its 13th 20-win season in school history and is headed to the conference tournament a third straight year, including a second for head coach Chris Carideo in as many seasons. The Pride are the third seed in the tournament and on Wednesday visit No. 2 seed Albright in the semifinals at Reading, PA, beginning at 8:00 pm.

The other semifinal pits top-seeded Lycoming hosting No. 4 seed Lebanon Valley.

Elizabethtown (15-9, 2-8) trailed by as many as 10 early in the second half, but took a 53-52 lead with 11:41 left on a lay-up from Bryce Rodgers. Mike Schatzmann made 1-of-2 from the line with 10:35 remaining for a 54-52 contest.

But the Pride ran off a 17-2 spurt for a 69-56 lead with 6:44 to go. Miller, who netted 16 points after intermission, had six points in the run and Jones netted five.

The lead got no fewer than nine the rest of the way and Widener notched its fifth victory in seven outings. The squad shot 48 percent (28-of-62) from the field after intermission and 45 percent (15-of-31) overall.

Miller drilled seven 3-pointers to match a career high from January 31, 2007. He shot 8-of-14 from the field over 37 minutes and added five steals.

Jones shot 7-of-13 from the field and sophomore Jamarr Johnson (Pittsgrove, NJ) added nine points and nine rebounds for the Pride.

Chad Piersol scored 19 points, Mike Church had 18 and Schatzmann contributed 11 for the Blue Jays, who shot 44 percent (28-of-64) overall and 2-of-19 from 3-point range.