SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - January 3, 2020 - The Colby-Sawyer men's basketball team began 2020 with a game at the Hampton Inn/West Springfield Naismith Classic held at the Birthplace of Basketball on the campus of Springfield College. The Chargers fell to No. 4 Middlebury, 91-80. 

Middlebury improves to 11-0 and will play tournament host Springfield tomorrow at 3 p.m. for the championship. Springfield defeated Bridgewater State 77-45 in today's other game. Colby-Sawyer falls to 5-4 and will face Bridgewater State tomorrow at 1 p.m. in the consolation game. 

Senior Dana Bean (Franklin, N.H.) led the Chargers with 13 points and nine rebounds before fouling out. Bean moved into seventh on the made field goals list with 546. First-year Jake Lorman (Rutland, Vt.) added 11 points, five rebounds, five assists and a pair of blocks. Senior Patrick Coffey (Westford, Mass.) also scored 11 points. Sophomore Terrence Harvey Jr. (Smyrna, Ga.) and first-year Zack Caraballo (Salem, N.H.) chipped in 10 points apiece off the bench.

Middlebury's Jack Farrell led five Panthers in double figures with a game-high 18 points.  Matt Folger added 11 points, 10 boards, five steals, and four assists for Middlebury.

After Middlebury netted the first five points of the game, Colby-Sawyer answered with seven-straight to take a two-point edge following a fast-break dunk by Omar Boone at the 17:05 mark.  The Panthers would respond with a 12-3 burst to open up a 17-10 lead after Perry DeLorenzo drilled a trifecta.  Middlebury would push its lead to 27-13 on triple by Max Bosco, only to have 12-4 surge by Colby-Sawyer make it a six-point game with 6:15 on the clock.  Over the next three-plus minutes, the Panthers went on a 16-6 run, as Farrell made the Panthers' eighth three-pointer of the frame to boost the lead back to 47-31, but Colby-Sawyer would respond again, pulling within 47-38 heading into the break.

Patrick Coffey got free for a jumper just under three minutes into the second half to make it a 52-45 game in favor of Middlebury, but the Panthers scored eight-straight points, capped off by five-straight points by Griffin Kornaker, which built the lead back to 15 points.  The Panthers would lead by as many as 21 points in the frame and went on to secure a 91-80 victory.

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