Box Score GLENSIDE, Pa. – The Arcadia University men's basketball team dropped an 81-70 Commonwealth Conference contest to visiting Messiah College Saturday afternoon at Alumni Gymnasium. The Falcons, who are ranked 17th in this week's D3Hoops.com Poll, improved to 17-3 overall and 11-3 in conference play with the win, while the Knights fell to 7-13 overall and 2-11 in conference play.
 
Senior guard Brad Bolen (Ashton, Md.) and senior forward Taylor Groff (Lancaster, Pa.) scored a game-high 19 points each to lead Messiah to the win. Groff also pulled down a game-high 10 rebounds. Junior guard David Fernandez (Miami, Fla.) added 15 points with five boards and five assists, while sophomore guard Scott Bolen (Ashton, Md.) netted 11 points with seven boards, a game-high six assists and three steals. Junior guard Zac Hoy (Mifflinburg, Pa.) also scored in double figured with 12 points to go with six rebounds, a game-high eight steals and four assists.
 
Junior guard Torrell Candelaria (Philadelphia, Pa.) scored a game-high 19 points to lead Arcadia, going 6of-10 from floor and 3-of-4 from three-point range. Junior forward Joe Brown (Philadelphia, Pa.) added 13 points with nine rebounds, three assists and three steals. Senior guard Mike Fitzpatrick (Towson, Md.) chipped in with nine points and three assists.
 
The Knights' trailed by as many as seven in the first half but were down just two at the intermission thanks to senior guard Rashon Brock (Buena, N.J.) and junior center Jose Figueroa (Philadelphia, Pa.) making back-to-back layups in a span of just two seconds, aided by a Fernandez turnover, to go into the locker down 33-31.
 
Two points would be as close as Arcadia would get the rest of the way. Messiah gradually built a 10-point lead through the first 10 minutes of the second half before using a 9-3 run to open a game-high 14-point advantage, 67-53, with just under six minutes left in the game.
 
The Falcons held narrow margins in points in the paint (40-30), points off turnovers (15-10), and bench scoring 16-15), while outrebounding the Knights 36-26, which included a 15-8 margin on the offensive glass.
 
Arcadia will next travel to Elizabethtown College Monday for a 6 p.m. Commonwealth Conference contest, which was originally scheduled for this past Wednesday and was postponed due to the winter storm.