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ALBANY, NY-The College of Saint Rose jumped out to a 40-14 lead in the opening 12 minutes and then held off Bentley to upend the Falcons 90-83 in Northeast-10 Conference action tonight at the Daniel P. Nolan Gymnasium.
 
Both teams shot better than 50.0 percent from the floor although the Golden Knights (18-4/10-3 NE10) turned 17 Bentley miscues into 25 points to win their sixth straight.
 
"We expected Bentley to battle us for 40 minutes tonight and that's exactly what they did. Our first 10 to 12 minutes were as good as I've seen us play all year and we knew that would be difficult to maintain. I am proud of how our guys stayed the course and held off a very strong opponent," said head coach Brian Beaury.
 
Saint Rose put five players in double-figures for the third time in the last four games. Junior guard Mical-Ryan Boyd and senior forward Tyler Sayre led the way with 20 and 19 points respectively.
 
Junior forward Jack Jones tossed in 15 while senior guard Damon Coleman and junior forward Julian Lipinski wound up with 12 and 10 respectively.  Coleman also handed out five assists and came up with four steals. Additionally, senior guard Chris Dorgler finished with nine points and a team-high eight rebounds.
 
The Golden Knights appeared to have things well in hand after Coleman knocked down a 3-pointer to make it a 26 point ballgame with 7:47 left until the break. However, Bentley (9-9/6-7 NE10) outscored Saint Rose 18-3 the rest of the way to get to within 11, 43-32, at halftime.
 
The Falcons then whittled their deficit to six on three occasions with less than eight minutes remaining. It got to within four after sophomore forward Zach Gilpin drained a trey that made it a 77-73 ballgame with 3:43 to play. It was then still a four point affair after Gilpin converted a pair from the foul line with 1:25 left.
 
However, Bentley was forced to foul at that juncture and Saint Rose mitigated the strategy by going 9-for-12 from the stripe the rest of the way.
 
The Falcons also had a quintet in double-figures. Sophomore guard Ryan Richmond scored 20 and Brandon Wheeler had 17 to lead their charge.
 
Looking ahead, both teams hit the road Saturday for 3:30 pm conference dates. Saint Rose travels to Easton, MA to meet Stonehill, while Bentley heads to New Haven to face Southern Connecticut State.

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Notes: The Golden Knights have now won nine of their last 10…Tonight was the seventh time they had at least five in double-digits and the 13th time they had four players in double-figures scoring…Sayre now has 1,654 career points and is just one shy of moving ahead of Jermaine Henderson ('98) into fifth place on the program's all-time scoring list…The Golden Knights shot 54.4 percent (31-for-57) from the floor, the 10th time this season they have made more than 50.0 percent of their field goal attempts…Saint Rose is eighth in the country with an NE10 leading 78.6 free throw percentage…The Golden Knights also pace the league in scoring defense (66.5), are second in rebound margin (+3.6) and 3-point field goal percentage (40.7), and are third in steals (6.2)…Eight players are seeing at least an average of 11.3 minutes of playing time and six are scoring between 13.4 and 8.1 points per game with Boyd leading the way.

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