BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Three Loyola University Maryland players scored 17 or more points Sunday, but Lehigh University used runs of 17-5, 12-3 and 18-3 to pull away for an 89-72 Patriot League victory at Stabler Arena.
 
Isaiah Hart, who on Thursday night against College of the Holy Cross had set a to-date season-high with 17 points, made eight of 12 shots and finished with a game-high 21 points. Andrew Kostecka and Chuck Champion were close behind for the Greyhounds with 18 and 17, respectively, but no other Loyola (4-11 overall, 0-2 Patriot League) scored more than five.
 
Lehigh (9-4, 2-0) took a 13-5 lead in the game's first four-plus minutes, but the Greyhounds were the first to go on a long stretch of holding the other without points. Champion scored two field goals in a row, and then Hart had back-to-back layups, pulling the Greyhounds even at 13-13 with a jumper at 13:43.
 
Kostecka converted an and-one with a layup and free throw with 13:18 on the clock, extending the Greyhounds' run to 13-0.
 
Kyle Leufroy, however, scored in the paint at 13:01, sparking the 17-5 run that saw the Mountain Hawks push ahead 35-21 on a James Karnik jumper.
 
Karnik had a double-double for Lehigh with 18 points and 13 rebounds, while Lance Tejada scored a team-best 19.
 
Lehgih opened the second half by scoring 12 out of 15 points to stretch a seven-point halftime lead to 59-43 on a Pat Andree layup three minutes into the stanza.
 
Later, Lehigh was again up 16, 64-48 , after two Caleb Bennett free throws, but the Greyhounds scored 10 in a row, punctuated by a Kostecka steal and fast-break dunk that forced a Lehigh timeout with 9:00 on the second-half clock. That basket made it a six-point tame, 65-59, but Lehigh tallied the next five points and 18 of 21.
 
Kostecka also led Loyola with seven rebounds, while KaVaughn Scott had five. Hart had four assists and matched Kostecka for game-high honors with three steals.
 
Loyola remains in the Lehigh Valley for its next game, a 7 o'clock tipoff at Lafayette College on Wednesday, January 9, in Easton, Pennsylvania.