BALTIMORE, MD — The Cairn Highlander's Men's Basketball team was on the road for the first time this season on Saturday, bringing home another victory for their six-game win streak, 70-69 as the game came down to the wire.
 
Walking into this game with confidence, Cairn (6-2 / 3-0 UNITED EAST) started off dominating, winning the tip-off. With free throws to start, graduate forward Josiah Hardy (Ashburn, VA / Hampden-Sydney) put the Highlanders in the lead. Hardy, senior guard Jonathan Desir (Feasterville, PA / Neshaminy), graduate guard Corey Baldwin (Henderson, NC / Averett), and fifth year forward Isaiah Coleman (Fontana, CA / Clarks Summit University) continued adding to the scoreboard, getting the Highlanders ahead on a 16-3 run. Graduate guards Jaylon Simpson (Atlanta, GA  / Belmont Abbey) and Jeff Williamson (Brooklyn, NY / SUNY Potsdam) got rolling as Cairn went ahead 27-16, not letting up. Baldwin, Simpson, and Hardy followed this with two sequential layups and a jump shot from later. The Highlanders swished jump shot after jump shot throughout the rest of the half, only making one when the Gators were hot on their tail only five points behind and cut the gap to go to half tied at 29-29.
 
Into the second half, Simpson, Desir and Coleman started shooting from behind the three-point line, giving them a five-point advantage. Coleman, Hardy and Baldwin brought the ball downhill to the bucket consecutively, draining layups. Junior forward Andre Burrell, Jr. (Philadelphia, PA / Burlington Co. Tech) put himself on the scoring column at the latter end of the half with an offensive rebound, finishing with a layup. Tied 54-54 for a minute and a half, closing in on the end of the matchup, Burrel Jr. makes another layup. Notre Dame (2-6 / 0-2 UNITED EAST) took back the lead, ahead by five with just under four minutes to play. Coleman responded, swishing three pointer, making it a two-point game. Burrell Jr. and Baldwin marched down to the paint, giving Highlanders four more and cutting the lead to one. Hardy took the lead with a jump shot and Coleman tied it back up with a free throw after the Gators scored on their possession with only 10 seconds remaining. The Gators made a jump shot, putting them ahead by 2 as Cairn set up a play with nine seconds to go. Simpson got the ball on the left wing, stepping back and splashing a go-ahead three as Notre Dame would come up short on their last second shot.  Cairn took their sixth straight win and first on the road, 70-69.
 
Coleman led all Cairn scorers with 18 with three triples and eight rebounds. Hardy added 16 with a pair of blocks. Simpson had 15 including two threes and the game-winner.
 
The Highlanders will look to keep rolling this week playing Monday at Gwynedd Mercy before an exhibition at UMBC on Tuesday night (on ESPN+)