Junior Kyheem Green (Huntington Station, NY/Walt Whitman) set a career-high with 29 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in The College at Brockport's 81-73 win over Cortland Friday night at the Jim and John Vlogianitis Gymnasium.

Green's 29 points bested his previous career-high of 20, and tied the highest amount of points scored by a Golden Eagle since then-senior Sherod Harris scored 29 against Clarion on January 3rd, 2008, a span of 94 games. Green shot 12 of 16 from the field and was a perfect 5-for-5 from the free-throw line.

The Golden Eagles (7-7 overall, 6-2 State University of New York Athletic Conference) outscored Cortland 47-38 in the second-half to take the lead from Cortland for good.Brockport has won four of its last five games, and six of its last eight.

Junior Gerald Williams (Rochester, NY/Charlotte) scored a career-high 25 points in the win, and credited the team's intensity in the second half to their game preparation earlier on in the week.

"It just rolls over, a great week of practice, meant that our intensity was high," said Williams, whose previous career high was 21 Tuesday night against New Paltz.

"Our defense mechanisms were through the roof, we kept going hard all week and it just came over to today's game and everything felt good."

Williams also shot 8-10 from the free-throw line and had two steals.

Freshman Jon Ivy (Rochester, NY/East) provided the closing touch for the Golden Eagles, hitting four of six free throws in the final 2:30 to seal the win. Ivy finished the game with 11 points, the third straight game he's scored in double-figures.

Brockport led 26-17 with 7:04 remaining in the first half, but Cortland responded with an 8-0 run to cut the lead to one, and then took the lead 29-28 with 2:20 remaining in the half. Brockport actually trailed Cortland 35-34 at halftime, but in the second half, Brockport took the lead for good when Green scored off of a dunk to give Brockport a 44-43 lead at the 14:50 mark of the second half. 

Green would score the next four points, giving Brockport a 48-43 lead. The Golden Eagles' biggest lead was 69-55 after Williams made a pair of free throws with 5:07 remaining.

Brockport finished the game shooting 19 for 24 from the free-throw line, including going 16 for 21 in the second half.

For Williams, the win was another chapter in the rapidly improving story for the Golden Eagles, who are off to a 5-2 start in 2011.

"We knew we were going to struggle in the beginning of the year because we had a lot of new faces, a lot of freshman," Williams said, "But our chemistry has started to improve, which we knew would happen at this time in the season.

With the win, Brockport remains one game behind Oswego in the SUNYAC standings. The Lakers defeated Geneseo 93-76, and come to Brockport Saturday for a game against the Golden Eagles.  Tip-off is scheduled for 4 p.m. inside the Jim and John Vlogianitis Gymnasium.