Syracuse, N.Y. – Adrianos Vourliotakis Perdikaris scored 14 points to lead Franklin Pierce University to a 72-67 come-from-behind win over the Le Moyne College men's basketball team on Saturday afternoon in Northeast-10 Conference action at Ted Grant Court.

Junior guard Naté Gause (Poughkeepsie, N.Y./Poughkeepsie/Quinnipiac) led four Dolphins in double-figures with a game-high 17 points off the bench, while grabbing a career-best nine rebounds and dishing out a career-high four assists for the second straight game. Graduate student center Jim Janson (Scotia, N.Y./Scotia-Glenville) recorded his fourth double-double of the season with 13 points and 10 rebounds. Senior guard Nate Champion (Logansport, Ind./Logansport) posted 10 points, while sophomore guard Qwadere Lovell (Mount Vernon, N.Y./Mount Vernon) added 10 points and five rebounds.

Vourliotakis tallied 12 of his points in the second half, while pulling down nine rebounds, including five after halftime. Andre Blackwood came off the bench to tie Gause for game-high scoring honors with 17 points. Donte Gittens, one of the top first-year players in the Northeast-10, recorded 14 points (10 in the first half), three rebounds, three assists, three steals and two blocks.

The Dolphins, who fell at home to the Ravens for the first time since January 5, 2006 (5-0 in between), scored the game's first five points and 20 of the first 26 over the opening 9:37. Sophomore forward Connor Mahoney (Hanover, Mass./BC High/Brooks School) scored the first four points on jumpers from the right baseline and the left elbow, while Janson followed with a free throw.

After Gittens got Franklin Pierce on the scoreboard at the 16:02 mark, Janson dunked the ball off a feed from Champion and Lovell followed with a lay-up in transition. Following a pair of Franklin Pierce baskets in the paint around a Gause jumper from the left side, Champion buried a three-pointer from the right wing and then Gause drilled three-pointers from each wing to force a Franklin Pierce timeout.

In the three and one-half minutes after the timeout, the teams split the game's 16 points. Champion had four of Le Moyne's eight points, while Ben Mead and Blackwood each connected on three-pointers for the Ravens.

After a dunk by Janson put the Dolphins in front 28-14 with 6:53 left in the first half, the Ravens closed out the stanza with 19 of the last 23 points to take their first lead. In a 15-2 run over 4:24 to pull within a point, Blackwood drained two three-pointers, Gittens made two lay-ups, Tyler Iacuone drilled a three-pointer and Curtis Christian converted a lay-up.

Following a lay-up by junior forward Ryan Romich">Ryan Romich (Groton, Mass./Groton-Dunstable/Vermont Academy) for Le Moyne's last points of the half, Gittens made a lay-up and Ryen Vilmont connected on two free throws with 41 seconds left for 33-32 lead.

The teams went back-and-forth over the opening 12 minutes of the second half, resulting in five ties and eight lead changes. The Dolphins started the half with the first four points on a tip-in by Janson and two Champion free throws, but the Ravens countered with six points on a three-pointer by Vourliotakis and a free throw and basket by Gittens.

After Blackwood gave Franklin Pierce a 44-42 lead on a three-pointer with 13:05 left, the Dolphins posted eight of the next 10 points for their largest lead of the half. Lovell ignited the run with a lay-up and then answered a Blackwood free throw with two of his own for a 46-45 edge. Gause then extended the lead with a put-back lay-up. Following a free throw from Paul Becklens, Gause slammed home a dunk off a drive from the left wing for a 50-46 lead with 9:40 to go.

The Ravens countered with an 11-2 run, including an 8-0 spurt on the backend, to regain the lead for good. Iacuone drilled a three-pointer to start the comeback, Gittens followed with a three-pointer from the left corner to tie the score at 52, Vourliotakis put the Ravens in front with a free throw, Becklens followed with a lay-up and then made a pair of foul shots 76 seconds later for a 57-52 advantage with 6:25 left.

The Dolphins trimmed their deficit to three on two occasions over the next 2:17, but Vilmont made a fast-break lay-up and the ensuing foul shot to give the Ravens their largest lead of the game with 3:27 to go.

Following a free throw and a jumper from the right side by Gause to get the Dolphins within 64-61 with 1:20 left, the Ravens ran the shot clock down and Vourliotakis was able to convert a shot from the right baseline before the shot clock could expire to push his team's lead back to five with 42 seconds left.

The Dolphins pulled within three points on three occasions in the final 31 seconds, but Vourliotakis went 4-for-4 from the foul line around a pair of free throws from Vilmont, the top free-throw shooter in the Northeast-10 at 90.5-percent.

Le Moyne (12-8, 9-5 NE-10), which clinched a spot in the Northeast-10 Conference Championships despite the loss due to a loss by Adelphi against Saint Michael's, is back in action on Wednesday against the Panthers at 7:00 p.m.