Albany, N.Y. – Tyler Sayre scored 19 points to lead The College of Saint Rose to a 62-54 win over the Le Moyne College men's basketball team on Wednesday nine in Northeast-10 Conference action at the Daniel P. Nolan Gymnasium.

Sophomore guard C.J. Asuncion-Byrd (Greenwich, Conn./Greenwich/St. Thomas More/Gannon) led the Dolphins offensively in the setback with 17 points, 11 of which came in the first half, while he added five rebounds and three assists. Junior Tanner Hyland (South Portland, Maine/South Portland/Bridgton Academy) came off the bench to score 10 points, all in the second half, as the only other Dolphin to score in double figures.

Sayre registered 11 of his points in the second half, while adding three rebounds. Mical-Ryan Boyd joined Sayre in double digits with 14 points, while contributing four rebounds and a pair of assists.

After the Dolphins took a three-point lead on three occasions over the opening 4:24 of the games, the last of which was 7-4, Saint Rose tallied 16 of the next 20 points over five minutes. Boyd scored five of the points, while Sayre and Julian Lipinski added four each and Damon Coleman capped the streak with a three-pointer.

Following a 6-2 Le Moyne spurt to get within 22-17 with 8:54 left in the half, Saint Rose scored eight straight points to take its largest lead of the game, 30-17, with 4:08 to go. Four different Golden Knights scored two points in the span.

Asuncion-Byrd scored Le Moyne's final four points of the half to get the Dolphins within 33-23 at halftime.

The teams went back and forth over the opening 6:04 of the second half with Saint Rose's lead bouncing between 10 and 13 points and resulting in a 44-32 lead on a pair of Sayre free throws.

Le Moyne, specifically Hyland, answered with seven straight points to get within 44-39 with 11:26 to play. Boyd pushed Saint Rose's lead back to eight on two occasions before Hyland drained a three-pointer and Asuncion-Byrd had a tip-in to get the Dolphins within one possession for the first time since the 11:49 mark of the first half.

Following 3:13 of scoreless play, during which each team had four empty possessions, Jack Jones recorded a conventional three-point play to put the Golden Knights up by six, 52-46, with 5:21 remaining.

Junior guard Anthony Richards (New Castle, Pa./New Castle/West Virginia Wesleyan) buried a three-pointer to get Le Moyne back within three, but Saint Rose scored five straight points and eight of the next 10, including six by Sayre, to put the game away.

Le Moyne (4-3, 1-2 NE-10), which slips to 0-3 in road games this season, returns home to face Adelphi University on Saturday at 2:00 p.m.