Syracuse, N.Y. – Sophomore guard Greg Langston scored 23 points and grabbed seven rebounds as Southern Connecticut State held on for a 72-69 victory over the Le Moyne College men's basketball team on Tuesday night in Northeast-10 Conference action at Ted Grant Court.

Langston, who went 9-of-16 from the field and 5-of-7 from the foul line, tallied 13 of his points after intermission, while pulling down a team-best seven rebounds. Junior forward Trevon Hamlet recorded 18 points, 12 of which came in the first half. Freshman guard Luke Houston posted 11 points and sophomore guard Dominique Langston added 10 points, six rebounds and four assists.

Sophomore center Jim Janson (Scotia, N.Y./Scotia-Glenville) led the Dolphins with a career-best 23 points, 17 of which came in the second half, grabbed seven rebounds and blocked three shots. Sophomore forward Brian Zapisek (Manlius, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius) was the only other Dolphin in double-digits with 10 points, while adding six rebounds and two steals. Sophomore guard Nate Champion (Logansport, Ind./Logansport) dished out a career-high nine assists and recorded three steals.

After Hamlet hit a pair of baseline jumpers in the opening minute and 39 seconds of action to give the Owls a 4-3 lead, the Dolphins scored 12 of the next 16 points for a 15-8 lead. Junior guard Derrek Tartt (Chicago, Ill./Oak Park Fenwick/UAlbany) bookended the streak with a jumper in the paint and a three-pointer, while Zapisek nailed a three-pointer and Janson and Champion added baskets.

The Owls countered with a 7-2 push to get within 17-15 with 12:19 left in the half. Hamlet buried a three-pointer, freshman guard Tylon Smith hit a jumper in the paint and Dominique Langston capped the spurt with a jumper.

Le Moyne extended its lead back to six on a jumper by senior guard Chris Johnson (Lindenhurst, N.Y./Lindenhurst) with 10:13 left in the half, but the Owls answered with a 10-1 run to take the lead. Hamlet had the first five points with a lay-up and three free throws, Greg Langston made a jump shot to tie the score at 24 and Houston gave his team the lead with a three-pointer.

Following a Zapisek lay-up at the 5:51 mark that tied the game at 29, the Owls scored eight straight points. Freshman forward Jose Cruz made two free throws, Smith had a tip-in and Dominique Langston followed with two baskets for a 37-29 advantage with 2:20 to go in the half.

The Dolphins scored seven of the final 10 points of the half to go into halftime trailing 40-36. Senior guard James Cormier (Trumbull, Conn./Trumbull/Proctor Academy (N.H.)) had a conventional three-point play and Janson had two lay-ups for the Dolphins, while Houston knocked down a three-pointer for the Owls.

Southern Connecticut opened the second half with seven of the first nine points to take its largest lead of the contest at 47-38 with 18:14 remaining. Houston started the half with a three-pointer, Hamlet hit a jumper and Greg Langston made a pair of free throws.

The Dolphins answered with 15 of the next 17 points over a span of four minutes and eight seconds to take a four-point lead. Cormier ignited the run with a three-pointer in the left corner five seconds after Greg Langston's second free throw, Janson followed with five straight points, sophomore forward Colin Sekal (Elkhart, Ind./Veritas Christian (N.C.)/Wagner) made a lay-up, Johnson drilled a three-pointer on the right wing and freshman forward Ryan Romich">Ryan Romich (Groton, Mass./Groton-Dunstable/Vermont Academy) slammed home a fast-break dunk for a 53-49 advantage with 14:06 left.

After Dominique Langston and Sekal traded two points apiece, the Owls scored 11 straight points in a span of 4:17 to turn a four-point deficit into a seven-point advantage. Greg Langston had five of the points, while Hamlet, Houston and Dominique Langston each had lay-ups.

The Owls pushed their lead out to nine points on three occasions, the last of which came at 70-61 with 4:59 remaining on a Hamlet lay-up.

The Dolphins then scored eight straight points in a stretch of two minutes and two seconds to get within a point. Janson had the first six points of the run on a put-back of his own miss, a dunk out of a timeout and a lay-up off a high-low feed from Zapisek. Zapisek then had a jumper on the left elbow with 1:58 remaining to make the score 70-69, but that would be Le Moyne's final points of the night.

After the Owls committed a turnover and the Dolphins missed a shot, Cruz dunked the ball off a feed from Smith with 25 seconds left to deliver the final score. Johnson had a pair of three-point attempts in the final eight seconds, but each was too strong to seal the win for the Owls.

Le Moyne (3-4, 2-4 NE-10), which lost at home to the Owls for the first time since the 2000-01 season, snapping a stretch of seven straight wins, returns to the court on Saturday at Adelphi at 3:30 p.m.