COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College men's basketball team closed its regular-season home slate with a 98-88 loss to Assumption College on Saturday during Senior Day at the Ross Sports Center. The Purple Knights are 5-20 overall and 4-16 in the Northeast-10 Conference, while the Greyhounds moved to 7-20 and 5-15.

Senior Matt Bonds (Accokeek, Md./North Point) turned in 26 points on 10-of-14 shooting with a 6-of-8 showing on free throws, adding five rebounds, three offensive boards and two assists. It was his 19th 20-point outing of the winter. Sophomore Levi Holmes III (East Brunswick, N.J./Rutgers Prep) added 16 points on 6-of-12 shooting with two helpers, and first-year Thomas Jackson III (Middletown, Conn./Holderness School) scored 16 points off the bench thanks to a perfect 5-of-5 shooting day and a 5-of-7 effort on freebies.

First-year Stan Foster (Rochester, N.Y./Avon Old Farms School) also reached double digits from the bench, netted 10 points on 4-of-6 shooting with a pair of assists. Senior David Sullivan (Egg Harbor Township, N.J./Saint Augustine Prep) had eight points, four boards and three assists, classmate Zaire Williams (Paterson, N.J./Newark Academy) dished off five assists to zero turnovers, and sophomore Derek Cheatom (Buffalo, N.Y./The Park School of Buffalo) hauled in seven rebounds.

Saint Michael's held a 29-25 edge in rebounding while committing only 11 turnovers and shooting 53.1 percent from the field, including 7-of-15 from three-point range, but Assumption connected on 61.0 percent of its attempts, including 67.7 percent in the second half.

Williams pushed past Chris Hurley '11 (221) to take over 22nd in program history with 223 career assists during the contest. Bonds surpassed the 1,500-point plateau for his career, remaining 13th at the College in scoring with 1,507 points. He and Ken Johnson '76 are the only Purple Knights ever with 1,500 points and 1,000 rebounds. Bonds also passed Mark Fizulich '97 (586) to claim 10th in field goals (589) while matching Geoff Card '98 for 12th in free throws (327). For the season, Bonds' 548 points are 11th in program history, the most since 2000-01 and the third-highest total since the mid-1980s. He matched Tom McKenna '68 for eighth in field goals (213) and tied two others for 15th in free throws (121). With 309 rebounds, Bonds has matched Dave Mracek '59 for 14th.

Six Greyhounds scored in double figures. First-year Malik Brown had 21 points on 9-of-12 shooting with 12 rebounds in 24 minutes off the bench, and sophomore Damien Rance totaled 16 points to go along with five assists. Classmate Justin Tuckson added 15 points as a reserve, and senior Declan Soukup and first-year Branislav Vujadinovic both netted 14. Classmate Patrick Fleming added 10 with five helpers.

A 9-0 run during which four players scored - including all three seniors - gave the hosts an 11-5 lead by 14:40 of the opening half, and they forged ahead by as many as eight points five times before Assumption slowly rallied to tie at 32 on Tuckson's lay-in at 3:47. That was the first of three ties in a matter of 2:06, and the teams exchanged 5-0 runs before Sullivan's jumper from Williams' feed put the hosts up 39-37 at 1:58.

Assumption notched the final seven points of the half, with the first five on free throws, to take a 44-39 edge into the locker room, but the run stretched to 19-3 by the time Fleming put home a lay-in 2:14 into the second half. By that point, the Greyhounds had netted 12 points in the second stanza alone, around a Cheatom three, and led 56-42. After the lead bulged to 17, Foster hit a pair of treys 38 seconds apart, trimming the hole to 73-62 at 10:56, but the next nine points came from the visitors, who later led 87-66 with 5:41 to go.

Saint Michael's slowly chipped away thanks to an 18-7 run, during which Holmes scored 10 and Jackson the other eight, and the hosts trailed 94-84 on Jackson's four-point play with 1:24 to go. Fleming's two free throws were met by a Sullivan put-back, and the Purple Knights still trailed by 10 before seeing Assumption miss the front end of a one-and-one, but a Greyhound corralled the offensive board at 56 seconds to seal the victory.

Bonds, Sullivan and Williams were all honored during a pregame Senior Day ceremony, with Williams concluding a five-year career that included redshirting the 2012-13 season.

The Purple Knights finish their 2016-17 campaign on Tuesday at Stonehill College at 7:30 p.m.