Syracuse, N.Y. – Adam Bramanti and Carter Smith each hit five three-pointers to lead Stonehill College to a 69-57 victory over the Le Moyne College men's basketball team on Tuesday night in Northeast-10 Conference action at Ted Grant Court.

Junior guard Qwadere Lovell (Mount Vernon, N.Y./Mount Vernon) led the Dolphins offensively with a game-high 20 points, his team-best 11th 20-point outing of the season, while adding a pair of assists and one steal. Freshman guard Russell Sangster (Rockville, Md./Bullis School) registered a career-best 13 points as the only other Dolphin to reach double digits. Sophomore forward Stan Buczek (Port Jervis, N.Y./Burke Catholic) grabbed a game-best 10 rebounds, while scoring seven points and posting a career high-tying four steals.

Smith made his first seven field goal attempts (ended with eight attempts), including five three-point attempts, en route to a team-best 19 points, including 10 after halftime, while dishing out six assists. Bramanti tallied all 17 of his points in the first half, while also handing out six assists and posting a pair of steals. Jack Cole recorded 18 points (10 in the second half), grabbed a team-high seven rebounds and blocked three shots.

After the Dolphins got a jumper from Sangster and a three-pointer from junior forward Connor Mahoney (Hanover, Mass./BC High/Brooks School) to take a 5-2, their only lead of the game, the Skyhawks drained three straight three-pointers to take an 11-5 lead with 15:15 left in the first half. Bramanti hit the first and third off passes from Smith, while Smith hit the second off a feed from Bramanti.

Following 10 minutes of back and forth action, during which time Stonehill's lead bounced between two and six points, the Skyhawks rattled off 11 consecutive points over a span of 2:12 to take their largest lead of the game, 39-25, with 2:33 remaining in the stanza. Bramanti and Smith nailed three pointers, Cole followed with a lay-up and then Pierce Cumpstone buried a three pointer from the right corner.

The Dolphins scored four straight points to get within 10, but then allowed a lay-up by Cole as the half expired to go into the locker room trailing 41-29. Stonehill connected on nine of its 15 three-pointers in the opening, while making all six of its two-point field goal attempts.

Le Moyne scored the first six points of the second half to cut its deficit in half, but that's as close as the Dolphins would get the remainder of the game. Lovell accounted for all six points on a fast-break lay-up, another lay-up and a jumper with 18:25 left.

Stonehill, which topped the Dolphins for the first time since January 25, 2011, when the Skyhawks defeated the Dolphins at the overtime buzzer, 84-82, on a turn-around 33-foot three-pointer, countered with seven of the next eight points, capped by a Cumpstone three-pointer, to regain its double-digit lead with 15:34 to go.

After the teams traded baskets over the next six and one-half minutes, during which time Stonehill maintained between an eight and 12 point lead, the Skyhawks used an 8-2 spurt over three minutes to put the game away. Smith buried a pair of three-pointers from the right wing in the stretch around a dunk by Cole.

Le Moyne (12-8, 6-7 NE-10), which has dropped four straight games and is under .500 in league play for the first time over the last two seasons, returns to the hardwood on Saturday at Franklin Pierce University at 3:30 p.m.