Waltham, Mass. – Keegan Hyland and Andrew Shaw each scored at least 21 points to lead Bentley University to a 73-67 win over the Le Moyne College men's basketball team on Sunday afternoon in Northeast-10 Conference action at the Dana Center.

Junior guard Qwadere Lovell (Mount Vernon, N.Y./Mount Vernon) led the Dolphins offensively with 22 points, 19 of which he scored in the second half, and a career high-tying nine assists, while also pulling down a game-high and career best-tying seven rebounds. Senior guard Naté Gause (Poughkeepsie, N.Y./Poughkeepsie/Quinnipiac) registered 20 points, including 11 after halftime, while grabbing four rebounds and handing out three assists. Senior forward Ryan Romich (Groton, Mass./Groton-Dunstable/Vermont Academy) was the third Dolphin in double figures with 11 points, while adding five rebounds and a pair of blocks.

Hyland, the older brother of Dolphin freshman Tanner Hyland, led all scorers with 25 points, 18 of which he scored in the first half, while posting six rebounds, five assists and two steals. Shaw came off the bench to score 21 points, including 13 after intermission, while grabbing a team-best seven rebounds. Tyler McFarland recorded 14 of his 16 points in the second half and finished the game with six rebounds.

The Dolphins opened the game with seven of the first nine points and took their biggest lead of the game 4:29 into the contest. Gause started the scoring with a three-pointer and sophomore forward Stan Buczek (Port Jervis, N.Y./Burke Catholic) and Romich answered a Hyland jumper with lay-ups for the 7-2 advantage just 2:01 into the game. Following a conventional three-point play by Hyland, Buczek made two free throws and Gause buried another three-pointer for a seven-point lead.

Following four points from each team over the next two and one-half minutes, the Falcons recorded a 9-2 run to even the game at 18, marking the only time the game was tied. Hyland had a lay-up and a three-pointer around a jumper by McFarland before Shaw knotted the score with a put-back lay-up at the 10:14 mark.

Buczek made a jump shot and Gause followed with a three-pointer to regain a five-point edge for the Dolphins.

After a dunk by Romich gave the Dolphins a 25-21 lead with 7:31 left in the first half, the Falcons scored the final 12 points of the stanza, all from behind the three-point arc. Shaw hit the first trifecta, Chris Murray gave the Falcons the lead and then Hyland buried two more three minutes apart to put the Falcons in front, 33-25, at the intermission. Over the scoreless stretch of 7:31, the Dolphins committed five turnovers and missed six shots.

The teams split the first 18 points of the second half with Le Moyne trimming its deficit to six on a pair of occasions, but Bentley also posted its first 11-point lead of the contest.

After McFarland scored five points around baskets by Gause and Lovell, Hyland and Shaw nailed three-pointers around a Lovell fast-break lay-up to give the Falcons their largest lead of the game, 53-40, with 9:07 remaining.

Following a three-pointer by McFarland with 6:15 left that put Bentley up 60-49, the scored eight straight points to get within one possession. Gause hit a jumper before Lovell had a jumper, a fast-break lay-up off a steal and another lay-up to make the score 60-57.

Hyland and Alex Furness hit back-to-back jumpers around a Le Moyne turnover to push the lead back to seven with 3:27 left, but the Dolphins countered with five consecutive points to pull within two points. Lovell made one foul shot, freshman guard Russell Sangster (Rockville, Md./Bullis School) made a pair and then Gause converted a runner with 1:25 left.

Shaw put the Falcons back up five with a three-pointer with 55 seconds remaining, but Gause answered with one of his own from the left wing with 35 ticks left.

After Shaw made a fast-break lay-up against the Le Moyne press, Lovell raced up court for a lay-up of his own.

Furness made two free throws with 13 seconds left and Hyland converted a pair with four seconds to go to seal the win after picking off a Le Moyne pass.

Le Moyne (8-2, 4-1 NE-10, 4-0 SW), which was the last team in the 15-team conference to suffer a league loss, returns to Southwest Division play on Sunday at Southern Connecticut State at 1:30 p.m.