BALTIMORE – Nick Marshall and David Brown III each had career-high scoring outputs Wednesday afternoon, as the Loyola University Maryland men's basketball team went into the Thanksgiving holiday with a 69-42 win over visiting Elizabethtown College in Reitz Arena.
 
Both players knocked down a pair of 3-pointers, as Marshall finished with 12 point and Brown with eight. Marshall also had a career-best seven rebounds for the Greyhounds.
 
Cam Spencer led all players with 13 points, and Jaylin Andrews scored 10 for the Greyhounds. Alonso Faure came off the bench to score eight and grab a game-high nine rebounds, while Spencer and Kenneth Jones each had six assists.
 
Marshall missed a three, but Andrews grabbed the rebounds, and Spencer fed Marshall for a jumper in the paint with 5:13 left in the first half, sparking a 10-2 run that take the teams to the break. Faure grabbed a rebound off his own miss and scored with two ticks left in the first half to put Loyola up 13, 29-16.
 
The Blue Jays cut the lead back to 11 with a Jalin Robinson three just over three minutes into the second half, but Loyola scored the next seven points to take its first 20-point lead of the game, 46-26, on a Wade Jackson transition layup with 14:27 on the clock.
 
Less than two minutes later, Spencer capped a 13-3 run with a three that pushed the lead to 23.
 
Brown would score in transition off a Faure rebound and assist at 5:57, giving the Greyhounds a 63-35 lead that would be their largest of the afternoon at 28.
 
Loyola had 24 assists on 29 made field goals in the game, led by the six each from Spencer and Jones and Faure's four. The 24 assists are tied for sixth-most in school single-game history.
 
Four Greyhounds had six or more assists: Faure (9), Golden Dike and Marshall (7, each) and Spencer (6). Spencer also had a game-high four steals.
 
Loyola will hit the road for its next game, a Sunday, November 28, contest at former Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference foe Fairfield University in Bridgeport, Connecticut.