GREENVILLE, Pa. – The Thiel College men's basketball team won a Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) game against the Grove City Wolverines, 81-74, Wednesday night.
 
Grove City started the game with a 7-2 scoring run, before the Tomcats had an 11-0 run to take an early six-point lead. Neither team took control of the game for the remainder of the first half. Thiel held the largest lead of the first half with six points.
 
Grove City started the second half with back-to-back buckets to take an early two-point lead. But Thiel would take the lead back and hold on to it for the rest of the game. The Tomcats led by as many as nine in the second half. 
 
Thiel was led by freshman guard Elijah Harden (Sharon, Pa./Kennedy Catholic) who scored a career-high 29 points to go along with two rebounds and two assists. Harden shot 69 percent (9-13) from the field, including 3-3 from three point range, and 72 percent (8-11) from the charity stripe. Junior guard Marlon Ellerbee (Temple Hills, Md./Oxon Hill) tallied 12 points and six assists. Beni Lavodrama (Washington, D.C./Phelps ACE) added  game-high 10 rebounds. Gabriel Gonzalez (Miami, Fla./Southwest) tallied nine points and three assists. Ahmad Tejumola (Waldorf, Md./Saint Charles) recorded a game-high four blocks.
 
Grove City was led by Chase Yarberough who recorded 20 points and three assists. Jonah Bock recorded 14 points, while Ben Cano recorded 11 points and seven rebounds.
 
The Tomcats will close out the 2022-23 regular season at Westminster on Saturday. The PAC game is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m.