COLCHESTER, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College men's basketball team lost to Northeast-10 Conference foe Assumption University, 67-62, on Saturday during Senior Day in Ross Sports Center. The Purple Knights honored Dario Milojevic (Windsor, Conn./Herman Academy/Mississippi Valley State) and manager Kevin Russell prior to their contest as part of Senior Day.
RECORDS
- Saint Michael's (10-14, 4-12 NE10), Assumption (10-12, 6-9 NE10)
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
- Milojevic, 7 rebounds, 2 blocks
- First-year Darrel Yepdo (Dracut, Mass./Brooks School), 15 points, 4 assists, 4 steals
- Sophomore CJ Crews (Tampa, Fla./Bayshore Christian School), 14 points, 4-for-7 field goals, 3-for-6 three-pointers
- First-year Alan Brzezinski (Örebro, Sweden/Western Reserve Academy), 10 points, 4 rebounds, 4-for-9 field goals
- Sophomore Nic Button (Skaneateles, N.Y./Cheshire Academy), 8 points, 3-for-3 field goals, 2-for-2 three-pointers
- Sophomore Chuma Oyigbo (Stoughton, Mass./Redemption Christian [N.Y.] Academy), 7 points, 5 rebounds
- Junior Romar Reid (Mount Vernon, N.Y./Woodstock Academy/Manhattan), 4 rebounds
OPPONENT LEADERS
- Senior Isiah Gaiter, 21 points, 11 rebounds, 5 offensive rebounds, 3 assists, 9-for-13 field goals
- Junior Njavan Stewart, 18 points, 6 rebounds, 3 steals, 3-for-6 three-pointers
- Graduate student Cal Connelly, 14 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 4-for-8 three-pointers
THE ACTION
- Saint Michael's breezed out to a 20-5 lead by 11:57 of the opening half thanks to starting 5-of-9 from three-point range, bolstered by Crews coming off the bench and drilling a trio of threes in a 2:09 span. Crews knocked down a jumper to make it 22-8 at 11:01, by which point he had scored 11 points in the 4:14 since he entered.
- Button's triple extended the lead to 31-15 at 6:28.
- Assumption responded with a 37-8 run, shooting 14-for-23 in that time. Only four players contributed points, as Gaiter had 17 points and Stewart netted 10.
- The Greyhounds led by as much as 61-45 on Gaiter's lay-up with 4:58 left and still held a 13-point lead with less than two minutes to go before the Purple Knights made one final surge.
- Sophomore Jacob Duniver's (Fredericksburg, Va./Woodstock Academy) triple cut the deficit to single digits, 66-58, at 55 seconds, and Oyigbo's lay-up with 10 ticks left dropped the hole to six. However, Glover split a pair of ensuing free throws, and Button's put-back just before the buzzer created the final margin.
NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME
- Tuesday at the University of New Haven, 7:30 p.m.
- The Chargers were fifth in this week's D2SIDA East Region Media Poll.
