Syracuse, N.Y. – Graduate student guard Robby Carmody (Mars, Pa./Mars Area/Notre Dame/Mercer) made two free throws with 4.2 seconds remaining to give the Le Moyne College men's basketball team a 73-72 victory over Stonehill College in Northeast Conference action on Monday night at Ted Grant Court.

Carmody finished the game with a career best-tying 20 points, including 12 in the second half, while adding seven rebounds. Sophomore guard AJ Dancler (Indianapolis, Ind./Southport) flirted with a triple-double with 19 points, including 11 in the first half, a career-best nine assists and seven rebounds. Redshirt junior forward Dwayne Koroma (Berlin, Germany/Bishop Walsh (Md.)/Iona/Salt Lake C.C./UT Arlington) grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds, while scoring nine points.

Hermann Koffi led the Skyhawks in the loss with 18 points, 11 of which came in the second half. Louie Semona recorded 14 points and six rebounds, while Todd Brogna turned in 12 points, six rebounds and three assists.

The teams went back and forth over the opening 11 and one-half minutes of the game as they exchanged the lead nine times and neither team took a lead of more than four points. The ninth lead change of the game came at the 8:54 mark on a lay-up by Koffi for a 22-20 Stonehill lead after Semona tied the score with a three-pointer.

Following a basket by senior forward Ocypher Owens (Orlando, Fla./Orlando Christian Prep/Indian River State) to knot the score at 22, Stonehill scored six points in a row to take its largest lead of the game, 28-22, with 5:35 remaining. Chas Stinson made a lay-up and then
Brogna converted two lay-ups.

Le Moyne countered with a 16-2 run to close out the half. Dancler kickstarted a 7-0 spurt with a conventional three-point play, Carmody made a free throw and then Dancler drained a three-pointer for the lead. After a Stonehill free throw to tie the score, Koroma had a fast-break lay-up and then Owens made two foul shots. Following another Stonehill free throw to conclude its scoring in the half, freshman guard Jakob Blakley (Elgin, Ill./Walter Payton Preparatory) drilled a three-pointer and then Carmody closed out the half's scoring with two foul shots with three seconds left for a 38-30 lead.

Following a basket by each team in the opening minute of the second half, the Dolphins ran off 13 of the next 17 points over three and one-half minutes for a 17-point lead with 15:16 left. Redshirt sophomore forward Nate Fouts (Skaneateles, N.Y./Skaneateles/Kimball Union Academy) and graduate student guard Will Amica (Syracuse, N.Y./West Genesee/UAlbany) drained three-pointers around a Stonehill free throw, Carmody followed a Koffi lay-up with a three-pointer, Dancler countered a Stonehill foul shot with a lay-up and then Amica knocked down a jumper.

After each team scored nine points over the next 5:47, Koroma had a dunk to give the Dolphins their largest lead of the game, 64-45, with 8:12 remaining.

Stonehill responded with 20 consecutive points over 5:15 to take the lead. Nathan McGill started the run with two free throws after Koroma was ejected for a flagrant 2 foul, Alex Bates IV buried a three-pointer, Ethan Meuser made a foul shot and Semona followed with three more before draining a three-pointer. After a Stonehill timeout, Koffi connected on back-to-back three-pointers to make it a one-point game. Brogna then converted a lay-up for a 65-64 lead with 1:55 to play.

Le Moyne answered with five points on its next possession to take the lead back. As Dancler was drilling a three-pointer, Carmody drew a foul while setting a screen. He then made both free throws for a 69-65 advantage with 1:41 to play.

Brogna made two free throws and a lay-up in a span of 38 seconds to even the score with 50 seconds left.

Carmody put the Dolphins back in front with two free throws with 32.4 seconds remaining.

Stonehill turned the ball over on its next possession with 18.4 seconds left, but Le Moyne turned it back over 3.5 seconds later. Stonehill got a shot off under the basket, but it was short and a Dolphin grabbed the rebound. However, Le Moyne was whistled for an offensive foul with 11.3 seconds left.

On the ensuing inbounds pass, Koffi buried a three-pointer from the right corner with nine seconds left for a 72-71 Stonehill advantage.

Carmody was able to draw an off-ball foul on Koffi with 4.2 seconds left. He converted on the front end of the "1-and-1" to knot the score at 72 and then put the Dolphins in front by making the back end.

Koffi was able to get off a three-pointer from the right wing, but it was off the mark and Fouts grabbed the rebound as time expired.

Le Moyne (7-13, 2-3 NEC), which has won all three matchups with the Skyhawks since joining the NEC, is home again on Friday at 7:00 p.m. against Central Connecticut State University, which is the defending NEC regular season champion.