Syracuse, N.Y. – Elijah Bonsignore scored 27 points to lead Southern New Hampshire University to a 63-52 win over the Le Moyne College men's basketball team on Saturday afternoon in Northeast-10 Conference action at Ted Grant Court.

Junior guard Qwadere Lovell (Mount Vernon, N.Y./Mount Vernon) scored a career-best 30 points, including 15 in each half, to lead the Dolphins offensively. Classmate Connor Mahoney (Hanover, Mass./BC High/Brooks School) was the only other Dolphin to reach double digits by scoring 11 points, while adding a team-high six rebounds.

Bonsignore, who posted a career-best 41 points two Saturdays ago, connected on 10 of his 12 shots and registered 14 of his team's 28 points after halftime, while finishing the game with eight rebounds and two assists. Rodney Sanders posted 14 points, five rebounds and five assists as the Penmen's de-facto point guard in the absence of Adrian Oliveira, who started each of the team's previous 16 games. Devin Gilligan, who replaced Oliveira in the starting lineup, tallied 10 points, three rebounds and a pair of assists. Aleksander Dobrovic led all players in the contest with a career-high 12 rebounds, including nine in the second half, while scoring eight points and dishing out three assists.

After Lovell started the game's scoring with a jumper, the Penmen rattled off the next 12 points over a span of 4:07. Sanders and Gilligan nailed three-pointers at the front of the run, while Bonsignore scored the last five, capped by a three-pointer from the left wing for a 12-2 lead.

The Dolphins, who have dropped three consecutive for the first time since February 2013, responded with nine of the next 14 points to cut their deficit to six with 9:06 left in the first half. Lovell scored the first four points, Mahoney followed with a jumper and then freshman guard Tanner Hyland (South Portland, Maine/South Portland/Bridgton Academy), the only reserve to see time in the contest, connected on a three-pointer from the left wing.

The Penmen countered with another 12-0 streak to take their largest lead of the game. Sanders buried a three-pointer to ignite the run, Gilligan made a jumper and a three-pointer and then Bonsignore capped the streak with a high-flying dunk to give the Penmen a 29-11 lead and force a Le Moyne timeout.

Following another thunderous dunk from Bonsignore to answer a Lovell jumper, the Dolphins closed out the half with 12 of the last 16 points to get within 35-25 at the break. Lovell recorded seven of the 12 points, while Mahoney started the push with a three-pointer from the left wing and freshman guard Russell Sangster (Rockville, Md./Bullis School) added a lay-up.

After each team made two shots over the opening three and one-half minutes of the second half, the Penmen scored seven straight points to extend their lead back to 16 with 14:57 left. Bonsignore made a free throw and then Sanders and Bonsignore nailed three-pointers from opposite wings off passes from each other on consecutive possessions.

Following two points from Lovell and Sanders over the next two minutes, the Dolphins embarked on a 13-2 run over the next 2:26 to get within five with 10:15 to play. Lovell started the outburst with a three-pointer from the right corner and Romich followed with a lay-up off a feed from Lovell. After a Bonsignore jumper, Mahoney made two free throws and then Lovell registered conventional three-point plays on back-to-back possessions to get the Dolphins within 50-45.

After each team went scoreless over the next 4:42, sophomore forward Stan Buczek (Port Jervis, N.Y./Burke Catholic) made a lay-up off a pass from Sangster to make it one possession game with 5:33 remaining.

Dobrovic ended SNHU's scoreless span of 6:19 with a lay-up at the 5:16 mark, but Romich recorded a put-back lay-up with 2:55 to make it a three-point game again.

Following a Penmen timeout, Bonsignore drilled a three-pointer from the right wing off a pass from Sanders to start a 6-0 spurt. After two empty Le Moyne possessions around a Bonsignore missed three, Bonsignore drew a shooting foul with 52 seconds left, while the Le Moyne bench was then whistled for a technical foul. Sanders made one of the two technical free throws, while Bonsignore made both of his attempts for a 58-49 lead.

Lovell made two free throws with 46 seconds left, but BJ Cardarelli (2), Bonsignore (1) and Dobrovic (2) combined to make five free throws over the last 44 seconds to put the game away.

Le Moyne (12-7, 6-6 NE-10), which scored its fewest points in a home game since posting 51 against American International on February 12, 2013, a span of 21 games, is back in action on Tuesday against Stonehill College at 7:00 p.m.