Lakeland, Fla. – Jack Rauch hit a game-winning three-pointer as time expired to give Florida Southern College a 71-68 come-from-behind overtime victory over the 13th-ranked Le Moyne College men's basketball team in non-conference action on Friday evening at Jenkins Field House.

Senior forward Robert Jones III (Mansfield, Ohio/Mansfield/Northeastern College/Idaho State) led the Dolphins with a season-high 19 points, including the 1000th of his collegiate career, while grabbing eight rebounds. Senior guard Russell Sangster (Rockville, Md./Bullis School) posted 13 points and eight rebounds, while senior forward Isaiah Eisendorf (Silver Spring, Md./Springbrook/Gannon) tallied 12 points and six rebounds.

Rauch, a Bishop Ludden graduate and son of Le Moyne College Gold Wave Hall of Fame member Len Rauch '91, finished the contest with a double-double of a game-high 21 points and game-best 13 rebounds. Jonathan Lawton also tallied 21 points for the Moccasins, while adding a game-high eight steals. Brett Hanson also posted a double-double with 15 points and 13 rebounds. Ben Marello was the fourth Florida Southern player in double digits with 10 points, including a three-point play with 16.1 seconds left to force overtime.
 
The Moccasins forced overtime by putting together a 25-8 run over the final 8:25 of regulation. Hanson started the comeback with two free throws and then Lawton scored seven straight points to get Florida Southern within eight with 6:15 left. Following four points by Sangster and a basket by Eisendorf around a Marello jumper to push Le Moyne's lead back to 12 (56-44) with 3:16 to go, Lawton scored five straight points and Josh Releford drained a three-pointer with 1:04 to get the Moccasins within 56-52.

After redshirt sophomore guard Oshea Gairey (Toronto, Ontario/St. John's Catholic Prep (Md.)/Simon Fraser) made two foul shots, Rauch buried a three-pointer to make it a one-possession game. Following a Gairey miss of the front end of a "1-and-1", Marello registered a conventional three-point play to tie the score at 58 with 16.1 seconds left.

The Dolphins were unable to convert a lay-up before time expired in regulation.

In overtime, the Moccasins took their first lead of the game on a free throw by Rauch 42 seconds into the extra session. The lead then changed sides four times over the next three and one-half minutes, the last of which came on a Lawton jumper with 54 seconds left for a 67-65 advantage. After the Dolphins missed a jumper in the paint on the other end, Ja'Kwan Jones converted the second of two foul shots to give Florida Southern a 68-65 lead with 22.1 seconds left.

With 5.6 seconds remaining, senior guard Anthony Richards (New Castle, Pa./New Castle/West Virginia Wesleyan) drained a three-pointer from the right wing to even the score at 68.

The Moccasins quickly pushed the ball up court to Rauch, who swished a three-pointer from 30 feet as time expired for the win.

The Dolphins opened the game with the first eight points as Eisendorf and Jones III made three-pointers and Sangster made a fast-break lay-up with 15:38 left in the first half.

Following a 6-2 spurt by the Moccasins to get within 10-6 with 12:11 left, the Dolphins posted an 11-4 run to get their first double-digit lead of the game. Sangster scored five of the points, while seniors Tanner Hyland (South Portland, Maine/South Portland/Bridgton Academy) and Daniel Kaigler (Syracuse, N.Y./Bishop Ludden/Gannon) each had three points.

After Rauch made a jumper to get Florida Southern within nine (26-17) with 3:53 left, the Dolphins closed the half on a 10-2 run to take a 36-19 lead into halftime. Jones III had four points around a Kaigler lay-up before Gairey scored the final four points over the last 1:05.

Le Moyne's lead bounced between 14 and 18 points over the opening 10:23 of the second half before settling at 50-33 prior to Florida Southern's closing run.

Le Moyne (5-1), which played its first ever game in the state of Florida, is back on the Florida Southern hardwood on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. to take on Saint Leo University.