Syracuse, N.Y. – The Le Moyne College men's basketball team had five players score in double figures en route to an 83-77 win over NEC-leading LIU in conference action on Monday afternoon at Ted Grant Court at the Donald J. Savage '51 Basketball Arena.

Graduate student forward Shilo Jackson (Indianapolis, Ind./North Central/Vincennes/Texas A&M-Corpus Christi) led the Dolphins offensively with 21 points, including 12 in the first half, on 7-of-7 shooting from the field and 7-of-9 from the foul line, while adding a game high-tying seven rebounds and two assists in playing all 40 minutes. Redshirt junior guard Trent Mosquera (Boston, Mass./Belmont Hill School) tallied 19 points, including 11 in the first half, to go with four rebounds and two blocks. Sophomore guard Jakai Sanders (Brooklyn, N.Y./Eagle Academy) recorded 11 of his 15 points in the second half, while dishing out a game-high five assists and grabbing four rebounds. Redshirt sophomore guard Deng Garang (Syracuse, N.Y./Bishop Grimes) had 11 points and five rebounds, while junior guard Tennessee Rainwater (Davenport, Wash./Davenport/Utah Tech) posted 11 points, including a career-high eight from the foul line in 10 attempts.

Malachi Davis led the Sharks in the setback with 24 points, including 13 in the first half, while adding four rebounds and three assists. Jamal Fuller tallied 18 of his 20 points in the second half, including 12 over the final seven minutes of the contest. Jomo Goings and Greg Gordon each posted 10 points, while Gordan added seven rebounds, three steals and two blocks.

The teams traded baskets over the first two minutes before LIU used an 8-2 spurt to take its largest lead of the game. Davis led the charge with a dunk off a steal and a three-pointer.

Garang scored five points in a row to tie the score and Rainwater followed with his first two free throws for the lead with 12:55 left.

After the teams played to ties at 14, 16 and 18, Mosquera put the Dolphins in front with a four-point play and then freshman guard Eli Greenberg (Centerville, Ohio/Centerville) hit a jumper and Jackson made two foul shots for a 26-20 lead with 7:06 to go.

The Sharks responded with the next six points, two apiece from three players, to tie the score at 26 and then Rainwater and Davis traded points to knot the score for the seventh and final time at 28 with 4:40 left.

Le Moyne took the lead for good with the next six points, with two points each from Jackson, Mosquera and Rainwater.

The Sharks got within three with 1:09 left on a lay-up by Caleb Johnson, but Jackson made two free throws and Sanders made one to give the Dolphins a 40-34 lead at halftime.

Following back-and-forth action over the opening two and one-half minutes of the second half, during which time Le Moyne's lead bounced between four and eight points, Gordon made a lay-up and Goings hit a three-pointer to get the Sharks within 47-45 with 16:00 left.

The back-and-forth play continued for the next four minutes as Le Moyne's lead fluctuated between one and four points and was at 54-53 at the under-12 media timeout with 11:54 left.

After Davis missed a free throw to complete a three-point play out of the timeout, the Dolphins ran off 12 straight points to take the largest lead of the game, 66-53, with 7:55 left. Rainwater and Garang drained three-pointers to force an LIU timeout, Jackson made a lay-up, Sanders drilled a three-pointer and Rainwater capped the streak with a free throw.

LIU responded with nine of the next 10 points to trim its deficit to five with 4:45 remaining. Fuller started the run with a fast-break three-pointer, Gordon recorded a conventional three-point play and then Fuller nailed another three-pointer.

Le Moyne pushed its lead back to double digits with nine of the next 11 points. Mosquera buried a pull-up three-pointer, Jackson slammed home a feed from Sanders, who then made two free throws and converted a lay-up for a 76-64 lead with 2:26 to play.

Another Fuller three-pointer started a 7-0 spurt by the Sharks to close back within five, 76-71, with 1:02 remaining. Goings followed with a lay-up off a steal and then Fuller had a dunk.

The Dolphins went 3-of-4 from the foul line around a free throw by Fuller and then Sanders had a lay-up off a steal for an 81-72 lead with 19 seconds left.

Davis made a three-pointer and a lay-up around a Garang free throw to get within 82-77 with seven seconds left, but Sanders completed the game's scoring with a free throw with six seconds left.

Le Moyne (9-10, 4-2 NEC), which improves to 3-0 on Martin Luther King Jr. Day during its three years in the NEC, remains home to host Wagner College on Friday at 7:00 p.m.