COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College men's basketball team opened the regular season with a 60-56 loss against Bloomfield College on Friday during the Best Western Windjammer Doc Jacobs Classic in the Ross Sports Center. In the day's second contest, Felician University downed Assumption University, 88-68.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (0-1), Bloomfield (1-0)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Senior Romar Reid (Mount Vernon, N.Y./Woodstock Academy/Manhattan), 21 points, 3 steals, 8-for-10 free throws
• Junior Jacob Duniver (Fredericksburg, Va./Woodstock Academy), 11 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals, 4-for-8 field goals, 3-for-7 three-pointers
• Sophomore Darrel Yepdo (Dracut, Mass./Brooks School), 9 points, 4 assists
• Junior Jhamyl Fricas (Lawrence, Mass./Worcester Academy/Connors State), 7 points
• Sophomore Nolan Marold (Highlands Ranch, Colo./Brewster Academy/Loyola Chicago), 4 blocks, 4 rebounds, 3 offensive rebounds
• First-year Marcus Meeks (Prairie Village, Kan./Brewster Academy), 4 rebounds, 4 steals, 3 blocks

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Redshirt sophomore Al Fatir Connor, 15 points
• Junior Edward Ngene, 12 rebounds, 7 blocks
• Junior Deavion Ellis, 11 points, 6 rebounds

GAME FACTS

• Duniver became the 26th Purple Knight with 100 career three-pointers, pushing his total to 101.
• The teams met for the second time ever in the Ross Sports Center, last squaring off in Colchester in Dec. 10, 1999.

THE ACTION

• Bloomfield used a 13-3 run to open a 17-8 lead by 10:17 of the first half, with Ellis scoring the first five points.
• Saint Michael's later countered with a 21-3 run to lead by a 31-22 count with 2:03 to go. Fricas (7), Yepdo (5) and Reid (4) combined for 16 of the points.
• The Purple Knights were still up 40-34 on Reid's lay-in at 14:44 of the second stanza before the Bears responded with a 14-2 stretch, led by six points from redshirt sophomore Kareeme Davis.
• Reid knocked down a pair of free throws with 5:57 left to tie the contest (48-48) for the first of four deadlocks down the stretch. Reid's three-point play with 2:50 to go had his team up 54-52, but Connor's jumper at 1:38 tied the game.
• Connor's go-ahead hoop with 55 seconds to go was met by Yepdo's bucket 12 seconds later, but another Connor jumper with 18 ticks remaining made it 58-56 in the Bears' favor.
• On the Purple Knights' next possession, Connor came up with a steal with seven seconds to go, and Ellis made a pair of free throws at six seconds to seal the win.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Saturday vs. Felician, 4 p.m. during Day 2 of Best Western Windjammer Doc Jacobs Classic.