Hamburg, NY – Leading by three points midway through the second half over Saturday afternoon's non-conference men's basketball game, Hilbert College rattled off 16 unanswered points to take control of the contest and their way to a 74-60 victory over visiting Keystone College at Hilbert's Hafner Recreation Center.  The Hawks lift their record to 7-2 on the season with their third consecutive victory while the Giants slip to 5-4 overall after dropping their straight decision.

     
Trailing by a point five and a half minutes into Saturday's contest, Miles Dargan (Orlando, FL/Wekiva) connected on a three-pointer that put Keystone ahead and started a 7-0 run that saw the Giants hold a 17-11 lead with 12:37 to play in the opening half.  Hilbert countered with an 8-0 spurt to reclaim the lead and the game would be tied four more times over the next few minutes before Keystone took a 28-27 lead on a Dan Candemeres (Holbrook, NY/Sachem East)' three pointer with 3:26 left in the stanza.  The hosts would go back in front with the games next bucket and would lead by as many as five points before taking a 33-30 advantage into halftime after shooing 32.4 percent from the floor in the period while going just 1-10 from downtown and 8-10 from the free throw line.
 
Keystone connected on 38.7 percent of its field goal attempts in the first half while going 2-9 from beyond the arc and 4-4 from the charity stripe.
 
Leading by five early in the second half, the Hawks used a quick, 5-0 run to push their lead to 44-34 with 13:18 left in regulation.  Keystone battled back with a 9-2 run to draw within three points at 46-43 on a run that included a pair of treys from Candemeres and another from Dargan, but Hilbert answered by scoring the game's next 16 points to seize control of the game at 62-43 with just over seven minutes remaining in regulation.  The Giants were unable to cut their deficit back into single digits the rest of the way as the Hawks went on to score the 14-point victory.
 
Nick Nadeau tied for a game-high with 16 points and completed his double-double with 10 rebounds for the game.  Jalen Smith also scored 16 points for Hilbert while Jerame Owens completed his double-double on 12 points and a game-high 13 boards.  Ryan Brewster was the fourth Hawks' player to reach double-figures after tallying 10 points on the night.   Hilbert, who held a 58-37 advantage on the glass in the win, won despite connecting on just 32 percent of their field goal attempts for the game and 12.5 percent of the shots from beyond the arc while going 15-26 from the charity stripe.  
 
DaVaughn Thomas (Port Arthur, TX/Silsbee) led Keystone with 13 points on 5-6 shooting from the floor and a 3-4 day from the free throw line.  The freshman forward also added six rebounds led the Giants with a pair of blocked shots.  Candemeres netted 12 points to go along with six boards while Duncan Lunsford (Marietta, GA/Sprayberry) tallied 11 points while leading the squad with eight rebounds.  Alex Smith (Floyd, NY/Holland Patent ) dished out a game-high five assists in the loss for Keystone, who shot 38.7 percent from the field for the game, 26.3 percent from three point range, and 77.8 percent from the free throw line.
 
Keystone will look to get back into the win column when they resume the Colonial States Athletic Conference portion of their schedule on Wednesday evening at Rosemont College.  Opening tip between the Giants and Ravens is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. in Rosemont, PA.