West Haven, Conn. – Graduate student guard Oshea Gairey (Toronto, Ontario/St. John's Catholic Prep (Md.)/Simon Fraser) converted a lay-up with 0.5 seconds left as the Le Moyne College men's basketball team rallied for a 75-73 win in overtime over the University of New Haven on Saturday afternoon in the Northeast-10 Conference opener for both teams at Charger Gymnasium.

Gairey, who made his season debut, finished the game with 10 points and seven rebounds, both of which are tied for his most as a Dolphin. Junior guard Tim Leavell (Marion, Ind./Marion/State Fair C.C.) scored a game-high 22 points, including seven in the second half and 11 in overtime, and grabbed seven rebounds in 34 minutes off the bench. Redshirt senior guard Malik Garner (Midland, Mich./H.H. Dow/Sunrise Christian Academy/Saginaw Valley State) posted 11 points, while senior forward Tom Brown (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial) had 10 points and eight rebounds and senior guard Ryan Roland (Syracuse, N.Y./Westhill/Mercyhurst) tallied 10 points.

Elijah Bailey led the Chargers in the loss with 20 points, incuding eight in the second half and 10 in the five-minute overtime, while adding eight rebounds. Quashawn Lane posted 14 points, five rebounds and dished out four assists. Derrick Rowland finished with 10 points, while Kessly Felizor turned in nine points, 10 rebounds, four blocked shots and four assists.

After Gairey scored the first point of overtime, Bailey scored eight points in 45 seconds to give the Chargers their first seven-point lead of the period. Leavell made two free throws and Bailey answered with a jumper before Roland and Lane traded three-pointers, which resulted in the Chargers holding a 71-64 lead with 1:02 to play.

Leavell drained back-to-back three-pointers in a span of 12 seconds around a missed free throw by Rowland. After Rowland made two foul shots with 27 seconds left, Leavell registered a conventional three-point play with 18 seconds left to knot the score at 73 apiece.

Felizor drew a foul with six seconds left, but missed both foul shots. Brown grabbed the rebound and sent a pass to Gairey, who raced up court and converted the game-winning lay-up with 0.5 seconds left. New Haven threw the ball away on the ensuing in-bounds pass and the Dolphins were able to run the clock out.

The Dolphins opened the game with the first five points and New Haven countered with five straight before the teams went back and forth over the next 14 minutes.

After Gairey made a lay-up with 2:20 left in the first half to give the Dolphins a 26-23 lead, the Chargers scored seven straight points for a four-point lead. Rowland made a three-pointer, Felizor hit a jumper in the paint and then Darius Roundtree converted a lay-up with 40 seconds left.

Gairey and Felizor each scored two points in the final 16 seconds as New Haven took a 32-28 lead into the intermission.

Following a lay-up by Brown to start the scoring in the second half, the Chargers scored 14 of the next 16 points to take their first 14-point lead of the game with 15:03 to go. Davontrey Thomas started the streak with a three-pointer, Bailey scored four points, Lane scored the next four and then Roundtree made a three-pointer for a 46-32 lead.

The Dolphins got within 12 on two occasions before Bailey gave New Haven its largest lead of the game, 51-36, with a three-pointer with 11:51 to play.

Le Moyne responded with a 16-1 run over 3:27 to knot the score at 52 with 8:05 remaining. Roland scored the first five points before Bailey made a foul shot. Garner and Leavell followed with three-pointers, Garner made a jumper in the paint to force a New Haven timeout and Gairey capped the streak with a three-pointer.

Lane put the Chargers up two with a jumper in the paint, but Leavell answered with two free throws to tie the score again. Sophomore guard Nino Hernandez (Gardner, Mass./Winchendon School/Bryant) gave the Dolphins their first lead of the second half with a lay-up with 4:04 remaining. Rowland countered with a lay-up with 2:07 to play to knot the score. Hernandez made another lay-up with 1:39 left and Felizor evened the score with 1:17 left with a jumper in the paint.

The Dolphins had three empty possessions over the final 58 seconds, while New Haven had two, which sent the game into overtime.

Le Moyne (2-3, 1-0 NE10), which has won three straight games at New Haven for the first time in New Haven's 12 seasons in the NE10, opens the home portion of its NE10 schedule on Tuesday against The College of Saint Rose at 7:00 p.m.