New York, N.Y. – The Mount Saint Mary College Men's Basketball team had its five game winning streak stopped and was eliminated from the Skyline Conference Championship by Yeshiva following an 80-67 First Round loss to the Maccabees on Tuesday night. Senior Daniel Wolff (Holtsville, N.Y.) led four players in double-figures with 18 points, including the 1,000^th tally of his career.
 
Sophomore Kendall Francis (Great Neck, N.Y.) hit a three-pointer just under three minutes into the contest to knot the score at 7-7 and started a 24-4 run for the Knights that saw them run out to a 28-11 advantage. The Mount held Yeshiva without a field goal for over five minutes and went on to hit five three-pointers over the run, including one from Andrew Holmes (Niskayuna, N.Y.) led the Knights with eight points over the spurt.
 
After building the 17-point lead, the Mount saw the Maccabees outscored it 24-11 over the final 9:34 of the half. The Knights did not surrender the lead prior to halftime, but a triple from Simcha Halper in the closing seconds of the first half brought Yeshiva to within 39-35 after 20 minutes of action.
 
The Knights shot nearly 47-percent from the floor in the first half and knocked in six of its 14 three-point field goal attempts. Yeshiva shot better than 48-percent in the opening stanza, hitting five three-pointers. Holmes led all scorers at the break with 13 points, while Gabriel Leifer led the Macs with 11 first half tallies.
 
Mount Saint Mary spread its lead back out to seven points on a Wolff lay-in at the 16:03 mark of the second half and maintained the advantage until a Leifer conversion at the 12:28 mark gave the Macs a 50-49 lead. The advantage grew to 56-49 on a Jordan Hod three-point play with 11:18 left to play and reached double-figures for the first time on a Kevin Bokor layup that pushed Yeshiva in front 63-53 with just under nine minutes remaining in regulation time.
 
After the Yeshiva lead grew to 13 points, the Mount battled back to within six points on a Wolff conversion with 3:26 left to play, but Yeshiva hit eight free-throws down the stretch, including a pair from Bar Alluf, to give the Macs a game-high 15 points lead with 31 seconds left to play.
 
Mount Saint Mary cooled to 38.5-percent shooting after halftime and made just two three-pointers, while Yeshiva shot 44.8-percent, connected on five more triples and outscored the Knights by eight from the free-throw line after the break. Alluf scored 14 points after the break, while Wolff netted 11 points in the second frame.
 
Wolff became the second player to score his 1,000^th point this season, joining Gerard Nocera (Holmdel, N.J.). He is the 16^th player to reach the career milestone after going 7-for-12 from the floor to go along with a team-high eight rebounds.
 
Holmes finished off the night with 15 points, hitting a pair of three-pointers, adding five boards and a pair of assists. Tyler McDine (Suffern, N.Y.) contributed 14 points for the Mount and two assists, while Nocera rounded out the quartet in double-figures with 11 points and five rebounds.
 
Alluf led Yeshiva with 18 points with Leifer contributing 15 points and Halpert, the league's leading scorer, producing 15. Alluf and Leifer each handed out five assists and totaled double-doubles with 12 and 13 rebounds, respectively. Hod came off the bench to net 13 points and hand out two assists.
 
Mount Saint Mary finished the game shooting 42.9-percent overall and 36.4-percent from three-point range, while Yeshiva converted at 46.7-percent and 34.5-percent from distance. The Maccabees outscored the Knights by 12 in the paint and turned 12 offensive rebounds into an 18-5 edge in second chance scoring.
 
Tuesday's loss drops Mount Saint Mary to 13-13 overall. The Knights will await word on an ECAC Tournament berth with the field announced on February 26.