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READING, Pa.-The Immaculata Men's basketball team kicked off the season Friday night at the Wyndham Reading Tip-Off Tournament against the host Albright Lions (1-0), and the Mighty Macs (0-1) led for most of the game, but an 8-0 Lion run over the final 1:32 helped erase a 7-point lead and give Albright a 67-66 victory.  Freshman Lou Dominique had a double-double with 13 points and 11 boards in his collegiate debut and senior Nelson Torres led the Mighty Macs with 18 points and 6 rebounds of his own.
 
Immaculata held a 66-59 advantage with 1:32 remaining after two free throws by junior Brandon Smith (14 points, 8 rebounds) and two jumpers by Torres as part of a 6-0 run to give the Mighty Macs a 7-point lead, but the Lions quickly cut into it.  A three-pointer by Zach Benjamin cut it to a four-point game before Dave Singleton scored the final five points of the game, including a free throw with 22 seconds left that gave Albright the one-point lead that they would not relinquish.  Singleton scored a game-high 19 points.
 
A last-gasp three-pointer by senior Todd Stokley (8 points) missed to seal the Lion victory.
 
Immaculata led the game from the 9:10 point of the first half all the way until Singleton's free throw gave the lead back to Albright.  In the first half, the Mighty Macs went on a 10-3 run to go from three points down to four points in front at 22-18 over a three minute stretch.  Torres and Stokley fueled the run scoring all ten points. 
 
Dominique had an outstanding debut as a Mighty Mac scoring 10 first half points and 8 rebounds, including the last ten points of the half to give Immaculata a 33-25 advantage at the break.  He would start the second half in the way he finished the first with hitting his third three of the game to keep the Mighty Mac advantage at 8 with 17:30 remaining.
 
Immaculata went on to extend their lead halfway through the second half when senior T.J. Klinger (7 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists) hit a jumper to make it an 11-point advantage with 10:56 remaining and junior Jerod Cain gave the Mighty Macs their biggest lead at 57-45 with 8:52 left.
 
Albright would then go on their first of two late second half runs by outscoring Immaculata 14-3 over a 5 ½ minute span to make it 60-59.  Immaculata extended their lead again with the 6-0 run before Albright's late heroics.
 
The Mighty Macs shot 50% from the field (28-56) and outrebounded the Lions by a narrow 42-41 margin, but 18 turnovers and shooting 6-13 from the charity stripe hurt Immaculata in the end.
 
The Mighty Macs will play Elms College tomorrow at 6 p.m.
 
NOTES: The Mighty Macs have lost four straight season openers…last win was November 18^th, 2008 vs. Rowan by score of 67-61…First ever meeting with Albright…Elms fell to Moravian 69-67 in the Wyndham Reading opener…It will be the first-ever meeting between the schools tomorrow night.