SYRACUSE -- Senior forward Kevin Roth (Lake View, N.Y./St. Francis HS) registered 19 points to lead the Le Moyne College men's basketball team to a 74-70 win over New Haven on Sunday afternoon in Northeast-10 Conference at Ted Grant Court. Roth added seven rebounds and five assists to his game-high point total, 10 of which came in the second half. Junior guard Chris Johnson (Lindenhurst, N.Y./Lindenhurst) tallied 12 of his 16 points after intermission, while redshirt freshman center Jim Janson (Scotia, N.Y./Scotia-Glenville) recorded 14 points, eight rebounds and four blocks. Freshman guard Nate Champion (Logansport, Ind./Logansport) dished out a career-best six assists and added nine points. Justin Exum led the Chargers with a career-high 35 points, including 11-of-16 shooting from behind the three-point line. The 35 points are the most by a Le Moyne opponent in the past nine seasons, eclipsing the mark of 34 scored by Saint Rose's Phil Sellers in a 94-88 win by the Golden Knights on March 3, 2003 in Albany in the Northeast-10 Conference quarterfinals. Robert Jamerson added 17 points and a team-high seven rebounds as the only other Charger in double figures. The Dolphins opened the second half with a 15-6 run to extend their three-point halftime lead to a game-high 12 points at the 12:35 mark. Roth and Johnson each had six points in the stretch for the Dolphins. After Jeremy Williams and Johnson traded three-pointers to make the score 56-44 with 11:44 to go, the Chargers ran off the next 16 points to take a four point lead. Krystian Foriest led the push with seven points, capped by a three-pointer, while Exum added five points. Janson ended Le Moyne's 5:45 scoreless drought with a basket in the paint, but Jamerson and Exum scored around a Roth free throw to extend New Haven's lead to six points with 4:50 remaining.
After grabbing his own rebound off a missed three-pointer, Johnson found Roth underneath the basket for a two-handed dunk to ignite a 15-3 run by the Dolphins. Johnson and Exum traded three-pointers before sophomore guard Gamal Mohamed (North Plainfield, N.J./Immaculata) drained a three-pointer from the left corner. Champion then stole the ball from Jamerson and went coast-to-coast for a lay-up to put the Dolphins in front. Roth, Janson and Champion combined to hit five free throws to extend the lead to 74-68 with 19 seconds remaining. Jamerson closed out the scoring in the game with a pair of foul shots with three seconds left. Exum hit four of his first five three-point attempts as the Chargers took a 12-8 lead after the opening four and a half minutes of the game. The Dolphins responded with 10 of the next 14 points to take an 18-16 lead at the 9:17 mark. Roth started the run with a conventional three-point play, Janson followed with a pair of baskets and freshman guard Brian Zapisek (Manlius, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius) hit a three-pointer from the left wing. Exum and Sean Harris drilled three-pointers around a three-pointer by Zapisek to regain the lead for the Chargers before the Dolphins scored eight straight points in a span of two minutes. Zapisek hit a three from the left wing in transition, sophomore forward Michael Goodman (Syracuse, N.Y./Christian Brothers Academy) added a conventional three-point play and Roth capped the streak with a lay-up off a feed from Champion to force a New Haven timeout. New Haven scored 11 of the game's next 15 points to tie the score for the only time in the game. Exum buried a pair of three-pointers, the second of which tied the score, Williams connected on a three-pointer and Jamerson scored in the paint for the Chargers, while Janson and Champion made lay-ups for the Dolphins. After starting the game 0-for-5, Johnson hit a three-pointer off a kick-out from Roth to regain the lead for the Dolphins. Roth and Jamerson traded baskets in the final 34 seconds of the half to deliver the 38-35 halftime score. Le Moyne (2-3, NE-10 2-1), which has won all five meetings with New Haven since the Chargers joined the Northeast-10 in 2008 and 13 straight dating back to the 1992-93 season, returns to action on Wednesday against Pace at 7:30 p.m.
Le Moyne women fall to New Haven
Syracuse, N.Y. - Dominique Stellmacher scored 18 points to lead New Haven to a 61-50 win over the Le Moyne College women's basketball team on Sunday afternoon in Northeast-10 Conference action at Ted Grant Court.
Sophomore forward Emily Bayly (Schenectady, N.Y./Niskayuna) led the Dolphins in scoring for the second time in four games with 18, including 16 in 10 first-half minutes, while pulling down a game-high seven rebounds. Senior guard Danielle Felice (Adams, N.Y./South Jefferson) posted 11 points and six rebounds, while graduate student Courtney Coryea (Mooers Forks, N.Y./Northeast Clinton) added eight points and five blocked shots.
Stellmacher scored 11 of her game-high point total in the opening half, while adding seven rebounds, four assists and two steals. Anh-Dao Tran joined Stellmacher in double digits with 13 points to go along with five assists and five rebounds. After the score was tied six times in the first half and the lead changed hands on eight occasions, Stellmacher hit a jumper 1:10 into the second half to tie the score at 33 and followed with a pair of free throws 44 seconds later to give the Chargers the lead for good. Tran and Lauren Boivin converted baskets to extend New Haven's lead to six at the 16:39 mark before freshman guard Ashley Prischak (Erie, Pa./Villa Marie Academy) got the Dolphins on the board in the half with a lay-up. New Haven rattled off 15 of the game's next 18 points to blow the contest open. Yasmin Ithier-Vicenty started the run with a lay-up, Jill Baranger followed with two baskets in the paint, Tran converted consecutive lay-ups, Stellmacher drained a three-pointer and Boivin completed the burst with a jumper, while Le Moyne got two free throws from Bayly and a foul shot from junior Brandy Wangelin (Olean, N.Y./Olean). After sophomore guard Torie Lee (Fayetteville, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius) and Coryea connected on two free throws each around a lay-up by Tran, Felice drilled a three-pointer to snap of span of 14:23 without a field goal for the Dolphins. Felice hit a second three-pointer and Coryea made a lay-up, while Baranger scored three points and Tran converted a pair of free throws to close out the scoring in the contest. The Dolphins scored the opening four points of the contest for the sixth straight game on lay-ups by Coryea and Felice. New Haven answered with seven of the next 10 to tie the score at seven at the 14:45 mark on a Tran three-pointer.
The two teams then went back-and-forth over the remainder of the half. The Chargers pushed out to a three point lead on a pair of occasions before Bayly scored five straight points to give the Dolphins a 14-12 advantage. Nicole Pollard then scored five straight to regain the lead for New Haven. Bayly followed with a conventional three-point play and a three-pointer around a Stellmacher fast-break lay-up to five the Dolphins a 20-19 lead with 8:02 remaining in the stanza. After a jumper by Tiana Williams, Lee made a lay-up and a three-pointer for a 25-21 edge. Pollard and freshman guard Maddy McKnight (Springfield, Pa./Springfield) traded three-pointers before the Chargers tallied seven straight points for a three point lead with just under two minutes left. Audrey Cunningham knocked down a three-pointer and Stellmacher hit a pair of free throws and a jumper in the stretch. Le Moyne closed out the scoring in the half with a conventional three-point play by Bayly to tie the score at 31 and a lay-up by Coryea with seven seconds to go. Le Moyne (2-4, NE-10 0-3), which has dropped all five meetings to the Chargers since New Haven joined the Northeast-10 in 2008, returns to action on Wednesday against Pace at 5:30 p.m.
Courtesy: Le Moyne Athletics
