COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College men's basketball team scored the final 11 points on Saturday to rally past Lake Superior State (Mich.) University, 68-58, and cap its Eracism Invitational sponsored by Best Western in the Ross Sports Center.

Sophomore Jacob Duniver (Fredericksburg, Va./Woodstock Academy) was named Clifford J. Breiner Most Valuable Player for the Purple Knights, who were ninth in this week's D2SIDA East Region Poll. In the day's other game, The College of Saint Rose downed D'Youville (N.Y.) College, 93-68.

Junior Romar Reid (Mount Vernon, N.Y./Woodstock Academy/Manhattan) joined Duniver on the all-tournament team, which was rounded out by D'Youville sophomore Luke Theisen, Lake Superior State senior Kemon Bassett and Saint Rose sophomore Shane O'Dell.

RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (6-1), Lake Superior State (1-4)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Duniver, 14 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists, 4-for-4 three-pointers
• Reid, 11 points, 2 assists, 4-for-9 field goals
• Sophomore CJ Crews (Tampa, Fla./Bayshore Christian School), 10 points, 6 rebounds, 3 offensive rebounds, 3 assists, 4-for-4 free throws
• First-year Alan Brzezinski (Örebro, Sweden/Western Reserve Academy), 9 points, 5 rebounds, 2-for-4 three-pointers, 3-for-3 free throws
• Sophomore Nahshon Battle (Scotch Plains, N.J./Woodstock Academy), 8 points, 3 steals, 2-for-2 three-pointers
• Junior Joël Kabimba (Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo/Middleburg Academy/Bryant), 6 points, 3 rebounds, 3-for-5 field goals
• First-year Darrel Yepdo (Dracut, Mass./Brooks School), 4 points, 3 assists, 4-for-4 free throws
• Senior Dario Milojevic (Windsor, Ontario/Herman Academy/Mississippi Valley State), 5 rebounds, 3 steals
• Sophomore Chuma Oyigbo (Stoughton, Mass./Redemption Christian [N.Y.] Academy), 2 blocks

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Bassett, 13 points, 7 rebounds, 4 offensive rebounds, 3 assists
• Redshirt senior Caden Ebeling, 12 points, 9 rebounds, 6-for-7 free throws
• Senior David Wren, 12 points, 5-for-8 field goals
• Senior Xander Okerlund, 8 points

GAME FACTS

• The Purple and Gold is off to its second 6-1 start in the last 14 years, joining the 2013-14 team.
• The teams met for the first time, with the Lakers the Purple Knights' third consecutive first-time opponent.
• Saint Michael's improved to 64-21 all-time in its own tournament, dating back to the 1957-58 Saint Michael's Invitational.
• After shooting 37-for-42 at the charity stripe on Friday, the Purple Knights went 18-for-20 on Saturday, finishing the weekend 55-for-62 (88.7%).

THE ACTION

• Duniver made three three-pointers in an early 3:11 stretch, with Brzezinski also burying a triple in that time, and the hosts led 14-7 by 14:53 of the opening half.
• Battle's pair of freebies gave the Purple Knights a 23-14 lead with 10:35 left, and his trey at 8:39 made it 26-17.
• The Lakers twice edged within five points, including at 29-24 on Bassett's two free throws at 2:20, but Milojevic's three from straight on at the buzzer gave his team a 35-26 lead at halftime. It was his second career three-pointer on just five attempts, including his initial try as a Purple Knight, as the hosts shot 8-of-12 from distance in the opening half.
• Kabimba (19:45) and Crews (19:04) netted buckets in the first minute of the second stanza to extend the lead to 39-26, and Crews' jumper at 13:52 had his team in front by a 47-37 margin.
• Wren scored seven points during a 9-0 Laker response, and sophomore Tyson Edmondson's steal and breakaway dunk gave the visitors their first lead, 52-51, with 7:02 to go. That proved to be the first of six lead swings in a matter of 4:50.
• Bassett's lay-in at 3:16 propelled Lake Superior State to a 58-57 edge, but Reid found Duniver for a corner three with 2:12 remaining for the final lead change, and Reid drained a mid-range jumper near the end of the shot clock to make it 62-58 with 1:13 to go.
• Reid rebounded a missed Laker three and knocked down a pair of free throws at 36.5 seconds to create a six-point lead. Crews and Duniver added two more freebies apiece down the stretch, capping the game-ending 11-0 run. Saint Michael's held the visitors to 0-for-5 shooting with two turnovers in that time.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Wednesday at Assumption University, 7:30 p.m.