WINCHESTER, Va. - The Catholic Cardinals trailed at halftime of Tuesday night's road contest before rallying to defeat Shenandoah by a final score of 69-67. Catholic improves to 4-0 with three wins away from Franny Murray Court already in the early portion of the season. 

After a back-and-forth contest for the first 28 minutes, Catholic took the lead for good with 12:07 remaining on Tuesday night. Catholic briefly took a 46-44 lead before the Hornets re-tied the contest with 12:30 to play. 23 seconds later, Colby Martins drew a foul and hit one free throw to put Catholic ahead 47-46. Just over a minute later, Sean Neylon knocked down a three to extend Catholic's lead to 50-46 and they never gave it back. 

The Hornets trimmed the deficit to two multiple times, but Catholic had an answer each time. Leading 54-52, Dan Buckley pushed the lead back to four with 7:55 to play before Shenandoah answered on the next possession. However, Martins and Buckley scored on the next two Catholic possessions to put the Cardinals up by six with 6:25 left. 

Shenandoah cut the lead to three with 5:16 remaining, but Neylon converted a three-point play at the 4:30 mark to get the lead back to six. The Cardinal lead shrunk back to three with 1:37 remaining and got down to one with 12 ticks left on the clock, but Neylon coolly converted his free throws to put Catholic ahead 68-65 with eight seconds left. 

Catholic smartly fouled up by three and Malik Jordan hit the free throws to keep Shenandoah alive with five seconds remaining. Jesse Hafemeister went one-of-two from the line to make it 69-67 and Jordan's attempt at the buzzer was blocked by Buckley to conserve a Catholic win. 

The two teams traded leads in the first half with Shenandoah ultimately pulling ahead by four at the break. Neylon had 10 points in the first half for the Cardinals and the Cards shot a better percentage from the floor, but the Hornets hit five first-half threes to help take the early lead. 

Neylon finished with an efficient 18 (6-7 FG) on the night to lead Catholic's offense. Hafemeister made it four straight games with at least 12 points and nine rebounds, scoring 15 and pulling down nine boards. Martins had 10 of the Cardinals' 15 bench points in 20 minutes. 

Jordan had 21 to lead the Hornets while Landon Russ and Davion Roberts chipped in with 16 and 14 respectively.