Box Score

PHOENIXVILLE, PA - Before Monday night's (Jan. 23) game against The Nittany Lions of Penn State Hazelton, VFCC senior Latrell Alford was honored for scoring his 1,000th career point at Valley Forge.  Alford reached the milestone on January 14, 2012 during the championship game of the AGCU Classic in Minneapolis, MN.  Valley Forge topped PSU Hazelton tonight by a final score of 106-71. 

In 21 games this season for the Patriots, Latrell Alford (Crisfield, MD, Crisfield Senior High School) is averaging 14 points and 6.3 rebounds per game.  He leads the team with 21 total blocked shots.  Alford is third on the team in steals (44), averaging just over 2 steals per game, and is also averaging a team high 29.4 minutes played per game.  In his three year career with the Patriots, Alford has averaged 10.8 ppg, 5.8 rpg, 1.9 spg, and 1.3 bpg in 83 games played at VFCC.  Alford is also a career 52% shooter from the field while at VFCC.  Alford played his freshman season at the Community College of Baltimore County - Cantonsfield (Cantonsfield, MD).

In tonight's game, the Patriots got off to a quick start against the Nittany Lions, scoring the first ten points of the contest.  It was all uphill from there as VFCC rattled off 57 first half points, the most points scored in a single half this season, while holding PSU to just 28 points scored.  In the second half, the Patriots ran away with the victory, extending their lead to as much as 41 points late in the game, and breaking the 100-point mark for the first time this season.

Senior Michael Stum (Manheim, PA, Manheim Central High School) led the way for the Patriots tonight, scoring a game high 17 points in only fifteen minutes played.  Stum was 6-for-10 from the field, and also hit 5-of-7 shots from the free throw line.  He also recorded a game high four steals.

Senior Latrell Alford (Crisfield, MD, Crisfield Senior High School) finished with 14 points scored on shooting 7-for-8 from the field, and snagged three steals in only seventeen minutes played.

Sophomore Lance Harris (Baltimore, MD, Grace Bible Baptist Christian School) also added 14 points scored on 5-of-8 shooting from the field and hitting a perfect 4-for-4 from the free throw line.

Senior Justin Kinsey (Philadelphia, PA, International Christian High School) finished with 11 points scored.

Freshman Michael Ayala (Windsor, CT) was 3-for-4 from beyond the arc en route to his season high 11 points scored.

Up next for the VFCC Patriots will be an away game versus Penn State Harrisburg on Wednesday (Jan. 25); their first of three straight games away from the VFCC "Pit" gymnasium.  Game time is scheduled for a 7:00 pm start.  The Patriots will then travel to Lanham, MD to face Washington Bible College on Tuesday (Jan. 31), and will finish off their road trip in Bueno Vista, VA at Southern Virginia University next Saturday, February 4, before returning home for the final six games of their regular season.