Syracuse, N.Y. – Juniors Kobi Nwandu (York, Pa./Northeastern York/East Stroudsburg) and Zay Jennings (Allentown, Pa./Allentown Central Catholic/Caldwell) each scored 16 points to lead the Le Moyne College men's basketball team to a 62-55 victory over the University of New Haven in Northeast-10 Conference play on Saturday afternoon at Ted Grant Court.

Nwandu tallied nine of his 16 points in the second half, while Jennings posted 10 points in 10 minutes off the bench in the first half. Senior guard C.J. Asuncion-Byrd (Greenwich, Conn./Greenwich/St. Thomas More/Gannon) tallied 13 points off the bench, including eight in the second half, while adding five rebounds. Junior forward Tom Brown (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial) pulled down a game-best nine rebounds, while scoring eight points and dishing out a game-high six assists.

Roy Kane, Jr. led all scorers in the game with 19 points, including 12 in the second half, while grabbing five rebounds. Derrick Rowland posted 13 points, including a team-high eight in the first half, four assists and three rebounds. Najee Larcher recorded 10 points, including eight in the second half, and a team-high eight rebounds, including six in the second half, off the bench.

After Kessly Felizor knocked down a three-pointer to give the Chargers a 5-3 lead with 18:09 left in the first half, the Dolphins rattled off 11 straight points to take the lead for good. Brown started the run with a three-pointer, while Jennings and Nwandu capped it with baskets 26 seconds apart.

Following alternating three-pointers from Elijah Bailey and Asuncion-Byrd, the Chargers scored seven straight points and 11 of the next 13 to knot the score at 19 each with 3:14 left. Rowland hit a pair of three-pointers, Bailey made a free throw, Kane, Jr. converted a lay-up and then Rowland knotted the score with a lay-up.

After three-pointers from Jennings and Kane, Jr. delivered the final tie of the game, the Dolphins scored seven of the last nine points of the half. Jennings buried another three-pointer and a jumper around a jumper by Larcher and then Nwandu gave the Dolphins a 29-24 lead at halftime with two foul shots.

New Haven used an 8-5 spurt to start the second half to get within two points. Bailey made a jumper and then Kane, Jr. and Rowland connected on three-pointers to make it 34-32 with 14:41 to play.

Le Moyne answered with a 7-2 run to extend its lead back to seven. Asuncion-Byrd and Jennings made jumpers and then junior guard Ryan Roland (Syracuse, N.Y./Westhill/Mercyhurst) drilled a three-pointer.

Following back-and-forth play over the next three and one-half minutes, the Chargers scored six consecutive points to get within three, 49-46, with 6:34 to go. Larcher made a lay-up, Kane, Jr. converted two foul shots and then Quashawn Lane made a lay-up.
 
Le Moyne's lead was either five or three over the next 90 seconds before putting together a 7-0 run to put the game away. Nwandu made four free throws, Brown converted a foul shot and a lay-up and then Nwandu made a lay-up with 1:27 left for a 60-50 advantage.

Kane, Jr. made a three-pointer and Larcher converted a lay-up around a lay-up by Asuncion-Byrd to deliver the final score.
 
Le Moyne (6-3, 4-2 NE10), which is in a three-way tie for first place in the Southwest Division through the first half of divisional play, returns to action against Tarleton State University at the Las Vegas Holiday Hoops Classic on Tuesday, December 18 at 5:15 p.m. EST/2:15 PST at the Doolittle Community Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.