The Lancaster Bible men's basketball team completed a New York weekend sweep on Saturday as the Chargers defeated Morrisville State, 97-66 in Morrisville, N.Y. The Chargers improve to 12-0 overall and 6-0 in North Eastern Athletic Conference play and finish their first week as a ranked team with two road wins.

How it Happened: Lancaster Bible started fast again as the Chargers opened the contest on a 10-1 run over the first 1:45. The scoring during that run came from all over as Dondre Perry hit a jumper, CJ Dunstonknocked down two free throws and Bryce Williams and Kurt Keltner capped the run with back-to-back 3-pointers. The teams exchanged baskets for the next five minutes as Lancaster Bible held a 17-10 lead with 13:14 to play in the first half. 

The Chargers then embarked on another scoring run as they scored the next 15 points over 5:12 to take a commanding 32-10 lead with 8:02 to play. Dunston and Perry dunks put exclamation points on the run and Lancaster Bible didn't stop there as the Chargers eventually took a 60-29 halftime lead. The 60 points marked the fourth time this season the Chargers have scored 60+ points in a half.

The second half belonged to Keltner has he had 13 more points to add to the 12 he scored in the first half as the junior forward connected for a career-high 25 points. As has been the case for many games this season, both teams emptied their respective benches midway through the half and the second half ended with each team scoring 37 points.

By the Numbers: Lancaster Bible shot 29-of-70 (41.4 percent) from the floor, including 12-of-26 (46.2 percent) from 3-point range...The Chargers were an incredible 27-of-30 (90 percent) from the free throw line...Keltner was 7-of-16 from the floor en route to his game-high 25 points...Williams had 24 points on 8-of-12 shooting, including 6-of-7 from beyond the arc...Dunston finished with 14 points, six rebounds and six steals...Perry added 14 points and four boards...Sophomore Herbie Brown chipped in with eight points and seven rebounds...Lancaster Bible held Morrisville State to just 20-of-69 (29 percent) shooting from the floor...Joe Hurlburt and Ibrahima Toure each had 13 points to pace the Mustangs.

The Coach Says: "The first half was probably our best half of the season," Lancaster Bible Head CoachZach Filzen said. "We executed very well and exactly what we talked about doing today. We shot the ball well."

On the team's defensive play..."Defensively, the first half was also one of our better halves of the season as well," Filzen said. "We took them out of what they wanted to do and were able to grab the lead."

On the team's ability to break games open..."Teams have started games off pretty well against us recently, but we are able to strike so quickly and are executing so well, that we are getting early buckets and it starts to have a snowball effect," Filzen said. "Any time the opposing team doesn't score, it seems like we do at the other end and it takes the wind out of their sails."

On the next week of practices and games..."It's cliché, but we want to improve each week and as I'm finding out, when you have upperclassmen, they want to do that as well and enforce that with their teammates," Filzen said. "These guys want to get better and having been outrebounded today, we know we have some things we still need to work on and get better at."

Extra! Extra!: Lancaster Bible is now 3-4 all-time against Morrisville State...Dondre Perry now has 989 points for his career and will look to become the 22nd person in program history to eclipse 1,000 points next Friday during Lancaster Bible's next game...Saturday was Dunston's seventh game this season with four or more steals...Bryce Williams leads the NEAC with 20.3 points per game.

Up Next: The Chargers return home to Horst Athletic Center to host Keuka on Friday at 5:30 p.m.