ROCHESTER, NY -- The RIT (7-14, 4-10 Liberty League) men's basketball team defeated St. Lawrence University (7-13, 5-9 Liberty League) 80-61 in Liberty League action from Clark Gym Saturday afternoon. Prior to the contest, he Tigers honored fallen members of the armed forces, donning camouflaged shooting shirts in honor of our Wounded Warriors.

RIT shot 45.8 percent from the floor on 27-of-59 shooting. The Tigers went 10-of-28 from beyond the arc, and made 16-of-23 from the foul line. Curtis Nesbit (Woodbridge, NJ/Woodbridge) led a quartet of Tigers to score in double figures, tallying 20 points. Keegan Ocorr (Fairport, NY/Charles Finney) scored 17 points and added four assists. Cobey Adekanbi (Bloomfield, CT/Loomis Chafee) tallied 13 points, and Michael Young (Brookly, NY/Nazareth Regional) finished with10 points and added 11 rebounds.

Chris Jeffrey led St. Lawrence with 14 points and 10 rebounds. Trent Adamson and Cale Sargent each tallied 11 points for the Saints, who shot 41.2 percent from the floor.

RIT led by as many as 15 points in the first half, shooting well over 70 percent from the floor in the early going. Will Atkinson (Orchard Park, NY/Canisius) gave the Tigers a 28-13 lead on his 3-pointer with 8:36 to play in the opening half. St. Lawrence outscored RIT  22-6 over the final 8:16 to lead 35-34 at halftime.

The Tigers came for the second half inspired, opening the half on a 20-9 run, taking a 54-55 lead on a pair of Ocorr free throws. Sargent cut the RIT lead to 56-50 on his basket with 9:07 to play in regulation. The Tigers answered with a 24-11 run to close out the game. Matt Anderson (Bennington, VT/Mt. Anthony Union) drained a three-pointer with :21 seconds remaining to give RIT its largest lead of the game of 19 points.