Las Vegas, Nev. – Rowan Mackenzie scored 20 points to lead Lubbock Christian University to a 78-64 win over the Le Moyne College men's basketball team on the second day of the men's D2 Las Vegas Holiday Hoops Classic on Sunday afternoon at the South Point Arena.

Fourth-year junior guard Jeremiah Washington (Chicago, Ill./Bogan/Ferris State) and senior forward Xavier Wilson (Spring Valley, N.Y./Archbishop Stepinac/The Hotchkiss School/Central Connecticut State) led the Dolphins with 12 points each. Washington, who scored eight of his points in the second half, also led the team with eight assists and six rebounds, while Wilson scored 10 of his points after halftime and pulled down five rebounds. Sophomore guard Zy'Ever Wingfield (Richmond, Va./Henrico/Fork Union Military Academy) recorded 10 points and five rebounds.

Mackenzie tallied 11 of his game-high point total in the first half, while finishing the game with seven rebounds and five assists. Kurt Wegscheider and Aaron Gonzales each recorded 15 points, while Wegscheider had six rebounds and Gonzales had five. Russell Harrison turned in 12 points as the fourth member of the Chaparrals in double figures.
 
After the Dolphins opened the game with the first seven points, Lubbock Christian answered with 10 straight points and 14 of the next 16. Redshirt sophomore forward Isaiah Elmore (Tampa, Fla./Tampa Catholic) started the scoring with a jumper, first-year graduate student guard Isaiah Salter (Charlotte, N.C./Central Cabarrus/American International/Adelphi) drained a three-pointer and then redshirt sophomore guard Kevin Constant (Lawrence, Mass./Central Catholic/Tilton School) made a fast-break lay-up.

For the Chaps, Mackenzie made a pair of lay-ups around a three-pointer by Wegscheider and then Harrison drilled a trifecta for the lead. Fletcher MacDonald pushed the lead to 14-9 with a pair of lay-ups.

Washington made a pair of lay-ups to get the Dolphins within 14-13, but the Chaps answered with nine straight points to take a double-digit lead at 23-13 with 7:54 to go. Karhan Jones had a put-back lay-up, Wegscheider made back-to-back lay-ups and then Gonzales drilled a three-pointer off a hustle offensive rebound by Mackenzie.

After the teams traded points over the next four and one-half minutes, resulting in a 30-21 Lubbock Christian lead, the Chaps tallied seven consecutive points to take a 16-point advantage with 2:10 to go. Mackenzie made a top-of-the-key three-pointer and a jumper from just inside the three-point line on the right side and then Wegscheider made a turnaround jumper.

Le Moyne scored the last four points of the half to pull within 37-25 at halftime. Constant made a driving lay-up and then fourth-year junior forward Luke Sutherland (Syracuse, N.Y./West Genesee/Siena/Bryant) finished at the rim off a dish from Washington with nine seconds left.

Le Moyne scored seven of the first nine points of the second half to cut its deficit to seven. Wingfield scored the first four points of the half and then Salter hit a three-pointer in transition after two Lubbock Christian free throws.

The Chaps answered with five straight points to regain their 12-point lead. Wegscheider made a lay-up and then Najeeb Muhammad, who dished out eight assists in the contest, drained a three-pointer from the right wing.

Following a 6-2 spurt by the Dolphins, which included a pair of baskets in the paint by Wilson to get back within eight at 46-38 with 13:18 to go, the Chaps rattled off 11 of the next 16 points to go back up by 14 with 10:10 left. Gonzales made a pair of three-pointers, Mackenzie converted two foul shots and Alec Zambie buried a trifecta.

The Dolphins closed within 11 on four occasions over the next five and one-half minutes, but could not get any closer. Washington accounted for eight of Le Moyne's 10 points in the span with a three-pointer, a jumper and a conventional three-point play, while feeding Elmore for a lay-up.

The Chaps put the game away with 11 of the next 13 points to take a game-high 20-point lead. Mackenzie started the stretch with a three-pointer, Harrison had a dunk, Wegscheider made four foul shots around a Wilson jumper and then Muhammad capped the span with a lay-up.

The Dolphins scored the last six points to deliver the final margin. First-year graduate student guard Nate McClure (Houston, Texas/Concordia Lutheran/Texas State/State Fair C.C./IUPUI) had a lay-up and then Wilson converted a pair of shots in the paint.

Le Moyne (8-6) returns to Northeast-10 Conference action on Saturday, December 31 at the University of New Haven at 3:30 p.m. The Chargers and the Dolphins are two of the three teams tied at the top of the NE10 standings with 5-1 league records.