ALBANY, N.Y. - The College of Saint Rose outscored Saint Michael's 68-43 throughout the final 25 minutes to chalk up a 96-83
Northeast-10 Conference victory tonight inside the Daniel P. Nolan Gymnasium. The Golden Knights outscored their guests 40-24 in the paint, got 31 points from their bench, and shot a season-high 61.1 percent (33-for-54) from the floor to improve to 5-1 at home this season.
"I thought we really responded well defensively in the second half. Our defense turned around our offense and we were able to make the most of it by scoring 56 points throughout the second period," said assistant coach
Mike Perno.
Senior forward
Julian Lipinski tossed in a career-high 25 points, behind 9-for-12 shooting, in only 29 minutes. Fellow senior forward
Jack Jones tied his season best of 15 points while canning all six of his field goal attempts. Additionally, senior guard
Mical-Ryan Boyd knocked down four 3-pointers en route to 18 points while junior guard
Shane Herrity handed out five assists.
Junior guard Levi Holmes III tossed in 31 points and senior guard Colin Richey added 18 for the Purple Knights (4-9/1-7 NE10) who had their three-game win streak snapped.
Saint Michael's got out to a quick 10-2 lead and held a 10 point, 42-32, advantage with 3:15 to go until the break after Richey drained a trey. However, Herrity and Boyd knocked down back-to-back 3-pointers to get the Golden Knights (10-4/5-1 NE10) to within four, 44-40, at intermission.
Lipinski then converted a traditional three-point play with 17:26 to go that put Saint Rose ahead to stay with a 49-48 advantage. The Golden Knights subsequently strung together a 13-4 run at the 11:38 mark that turned a six point, 63-57, cushion into a 15 point, 76-61, advantage with 8:40 remaining. Jones sandwiched the spurt with a 3-pointer and a put-back basket. Saint Rose eventually increased its advantage to as much as 20 points in the final three minutes.
Looking ahead, both squads have 3:30 pm games this Saturday. The Golden Knights travel to Waltham, Mass. to take on Bentley, while Saint Michael's hosts American International.
Notes: Lipinski has been in double-figures scoring in five straight games…He is second among the conference leaders in blocks average (1.9)…Boyd has averaged 18.0 points in the three games since his return…Saint Rose is 15
th in the country and first in the NE10 in scoring defense (65.4)…The Golden Knights are furthermore second in the league in both field goal percentage defense (41.2) and blocks average (3.9)…They have now shot better than 50.0 percent from the floor on four occasions this year.
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