RADNOR, Pa. – The Cabrini men's basketball team fashioned a 21-0 run mid-way through the second half en route to its fourth straight victory, an 83-63 win versus Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) opponent Centenary College on Saturday afternoon at Nerney Field House. Sophomore guard Cory Lemons powered the Cavaliers' offense with a season-high 29 points in the victory.
The win is Cabrini's 27th straight at home against a CSAC opponent. The victory is also the Cavaliers' 18th in a row overall at Nerney Field House, dating back to the start of the 2009-10 regular season.
Lemons shot 11-for-16 overall and 2-for-4 from beyond the 3-point arc. He continues to flirt with his first career triple-double, also chipping in eight assists and six rebounds.
Senior forward Dom Farrello reached double figures for the 13th time in 13 games this season, scoring 24 points and gathering nine rebounds. Farrello started slow, making just one of his first seven shots, but finished shooting a scorching 4-for-8 from long range.
Farrello, the team's leading scorer averaging 17.2 points per game this season, is now just 36 points shy of becoming the program's 15th player all-time to reach 1,000 career points. He is averaging 10.1 points an outing in 95 career games played at Cabrini.
Junior guard John Boyd added nine points and four rebounds. Freshman guard Keefer Francis scored seven points off the bench.
The Cavaliers faced a four-point deficit, 56-52, at the 8:30 mark following a lay-in from Centenary's senior guard Rob Urie. However, that would be the lone field goal for the Cyclones over the next six minutes.
Lemons sparked the decisive run with a jumper on the next possession. Farrello's 3-point field goal at the 7:40 mark supplied the Blue & White with a lead it would never relinquish.
While the Cavaliers' offense turned the tide on the scoreboard, it was the defense's three-quarter-court 1-3-1 pressure that keyed the run. The Cabrini defense forced six turnovers during the 21-0 run and 25 for the game overall.
The Blue & White pushed its lead to a game-high 23 points with nine seconds remaining. Cabrini shot 56.7 percent from the field and 13-for-16 from the charity stripe in the second half.
The Cavaliers turned the 25 turnovers from the Cyclones into 40 points. Cabrini also out-scored Centenary in bench points, 41-25.
Urie led all Cyclones with 21 points, including 15 in the first half. Junior forward Larry Lenahan mixed in 10 points and seven rebounds.
The victory clinches the Cavaliers' first series sweep against Centenary under third-year head coach Marcus Kahn. The Blue & White last knocked off the Cyclones twice in one season in 2007-08.
Cabrini (11-4, 7-1) remains at home versus CSAC foe Neumann University on Monday, Jan. 24 in a re-match of last season's conference title game. Game time against the Knights is set for approximately 8 p.m.