Staten Island, N.Y. – Nick Jones hit a go-ahead shot with 1.2 seconds remaining to give Wagner College a 79-78 win over the Le Moyne College men's basketball team in NEC action on Thursday night at the Spiro Sports Center.

Redshirt junior guard Trent Mosquera (Boston, Mass./Belmont Hill School) led the Dolphins with 20 points, including a pair of go-ahead baskets in the final minute. Sophomore guard Jakai Sanders (Brooklyn, N.Y./Eagle Academy/Saint Peter's) posted 13 points and dished out six assists. Junior swingman Tennessee Rainwater (Davenport, Wash./Davenport/Utah Tech) turned in 13 points, five rebounds and three assists.

Jones, who connected on the game-winning basket in the final seconds for the second straight game, led all players in the game with 24 points, including 12 in each half, while adding six assists. Jaden Baker recorded 19 points, including a go-ahead three-pointer with 43 seconds left to set up Mosquera's second go-ahead basket, while adding five rebounds. Bryan Akanmu tallied 11 points and five rebounds.

The teams traded the lead three times in the opening three minutes before Rainwater drained a three-pointer for a 9-5 lead.

Following a free throw by Sanders to put the Dolphins up 13-10 with 14:07 left in the first half, the Seahawks scored the next eight points over two minutes. Jones and Baker hit three-pointers and then Jones had a tip-in of a Baker miss.

Le Moyne countered with 11 of the next 13 points to take the lead back. Freshman guard Eli Greenberg (Centerville, Ohio/Centerville) sparked a 7-0 run with a three-pointer and followed a dunk by redshirt sophomore guard Deng Garang (Syracuse, N.Y./Bishop Grimes) with a lay-up for the lead. Following two free throws by Akanmu, redshirt sophomore forward Trevor Roe (Syracuse, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius/Radford) hit a jumper and junior guard Samuel Hincapie (Medellin, Colombia/Gateway Legacy Prep (Mo.)/Lake Land College) had a fast-break dunk for a 24-20 lead with 8:25 to go in the half.

After sophomore forward Isaac Nyakundi (Duluth, Minn./Duluth East/The MacDuffie School (Mass.)) knocked down a three-pointer for a 27-22 edge, the Seahawks scored nine of the next 11 points for a two-point lead. Baker hit back-to-back three-pointers and then Michael Cooper hit one of his own.

Mosquera evened the score at 31 with two free throws, but Akanmu answered with a conventional three-point play and another lay-up for a 36-31 lead with 2:58 left.

The teams alternated points the remainder of the half as the Seahawks took a 40-35 lead into the intermission.

Nyakundi opened the scoring in the second half with back-to-back dunks, but Wagner countered with six straight points for its largest lead of the game, 46-39, with 17:37 left. Binael Basil had a lay-up and then Baker followed with two more.

After Wagner's lead bounced between three and six points over the next four minutes, Le Moyne used a 5-0 spurt to tie the score for the first time in the half at 52 with 12:46 left. Sanders made two free throws and then recorded a conventional three-point play.

The teams were then tied at 54, 56, 58 and 60 over the next four minutes.

After Wagner scored three straight points for a 63-62 lead with 7:23 left, Sanders and Mosquera made lay-ups on back-to-back possessions to put the Dolphins up by three with 6:17 to play.

The teams traded points over the next two minutes before Jones gave the lead back to Wagner with 3:54 remaining.

After Rainwater countered with a three-pointer for a 71-69 edge with 3:34 to go, the teams were tied at 71, 73 and 74 over the next two and one-half minutes.

Mosquera hit his first go-ahead shot of the final minute with 55 seconds left, but Baker answered with a three-pointer 12 seconds later. Following a Wagner timeout, Mosquera knocked down his second go-ahead jumper with 24 seconds left to set up Jones' game-winner with 1.2 seconds to go.

After calling a timeout, Le Moyne advanced the ball to just over midcourt with 0.9 seconds left before calling another timeout. Out of the second timeout, the Dolphins were unable to get off a potential game-winning shot before time ran out.

Le Moyne (11-13, 6-5 NEC), which has dropped three straight games and sits in a three-way tie for third place in the NEC standings, starts a three-game homestand on Saturday against Saint Francis University at 1:00 p.m.