BANGOR, Maine – February 27, 2016 – The second seed Colby-Sawyer College men's basketball team fell to top seed Husson University, 94-77 in Saturday's North Atlantic Conference (NAC) championship. The two teams met in last year's final with the Chargers winning in New London. 

Husson improves to 21-6 and will represent the NAC in the NCAA Tournament. Colby-Sawyer has its seven game win streak snapped to drop to 19-7. The Chargers will have to wait until Monday evening to find out if they have made the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) tournament. 

Senior Peter Donato led all players with 31 points and 10 rebounds. Donato climbed into 12th in career points with 1303. Senior Wol Majong added 14 points, five assists and four steals. He moved into fifth in career three pointers with 192 and eighth in career steals with 158. Freshman Milani Hicks scored 13 points, while sophomore Taylor Grande recorded eight points, six rebounds and three assists. Peter Donato and Taylor Grande were named to the All-Tournament Team. 

NAC Tournament MVP Trevon Butler scored a team-high 27 points for Husson. Butler added ten rebounds and two steals to go along with his 27 points. Raheem Anderson finished with 22 points, four rebounds, eight assists, and one block. Wood contributed 12 points and five rebounds off the bench and Eli Itkin added 10 to the Husson offense.
 
Colby-Sawyer scored the first four points of the game before a Zach Curran jump shot sparked a 13-4 run as Husson took a 13-8 lead at the 13:00 mark of the first half. The Chargers countered with their own run and retook the lead, 20-19 when Peter Donato made layup from a nice pass from Jourdain Bell with 8:00 remaining. Mitch Worcester capped off a 19-9 run by the Eagles with a three at the buzzer and entered the intermission with a 38-29 advantage.
 
Milani Hicks led all scorers with 11 points in the half while Donato added nine and six boards for the Chargers. Mitch Worcester and Darryl Wood each scored eight points to lead the Eagles.
 
The Chargers went on an 8-2 run to open up the second half to cut the Husson lead to 40-37 with 16:35 remaining. A two by Raheem Anderson at 16:19, sparked a 12-2 run by the Eagles to extend their lead to ten with 13:02 left in the game, but Butler took over the game the rest way which included seven made threes as Husson pulled away in the closing minutes of the game for the victory.
 
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