KEENE, N.H. - January 21, 2019 - The Colby-Sawyer men's basketball team fell at Keene State, 83-73, in non-league action Monday evening. 

The Chargers drop to 9-9 and will resume Great Northeast Athletic Conference play at Lasell on Thursday. Keene improves to 11-7. 

Colby-Sawyer was led by Dana Bean's (Franklin, N.H.) 17 points. He made 7-of-8 free throw attempts. Jourdain Bell (Manchester, N.H.) contributed 14 points and seven rebounds. He moved into 9th in career points with 1368 and 10th in made field goals with 492. Patrick Coffey (Westford, Mass.) finished with 13 points, while Terrence Harvey Jr. (Smyrna, Ga.)chipped in 12 points in 17 minutes off the bench. 

The Owls received 28 points from Ty Nichols who became the program's all-time leading scorer with 2044. He shot 12-of-21 and added seven assists. Miguel Prieto scored 16 points, while Ben Olson was responsible for 12 of the team's 16 bench points. 

The Chargers started fast, opening the game on a 12-4 run over the first 4:07 behind six points from Bean and four from Patrick Coffey. It was still 14-8 CSC a few minutes later, but Keene State came to life, tying the game at 14 after consecutive Nichols to Olson feeds with just under 13 minutes remaining.  The Owls took their first lead of the contest (16-14) after Olson made two from the line and did not look back from there, as Colby-Sawyer tied the game three times shortly after but never led again.  Nichols' milestone bucket came at the 9:49 mark, as he drained a step-back two just inside the three-point line to put KSC up 21-19.  The home team then used a 9-0 run to go in front 30-21.  After the Chargers got back within four, Nichols rattled off five straight points to restore the lead to nine and, later, another Olson layup made it 39-28 at the 3:50 mark.  Keene State shot 64% (18-of-28) and got 23 points from Nichols in the opening half to lead 47-33 at the break.

The opening minutes of the second half were a similar story, as consecutive threes not even two minutes in from Paul Mahon and Prieto bumped the lead up to 53-37, which was later extended to 18 (57-39) after Ezedonmwen's layup at the 16:10 mark.  Colby-Sawyer stayed within striking distance, as they embarked on a 12-2 run over the next six minutes to get the deficit under double digits, but the Owls had answers to every rally by the visitors, as Prieto canned a three to make it 62-51 with just over nine minutes to go.  CSC got within eight less than a minute later after Terrence Harvey, Jr.'s three-point play and Jourdain Bell's jumper, but Nichols scored inside and Prieto followed with the next four points to make it 69-56 with 6:18 on the clock.  Mahon and Nichols followed with treys and Olson two free throws over the next four minutes as KSC salted the game away with a 10-2 run that put them up 79-60 with about three minutes left.  After trailing 81-62, the Chargers tallied 11 of the last 13 points to set the final margin.

--Courtesy of KSC--
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