NEWBURGH, N.Y. – The Mount Saint Mary College men's basketball team celebrated Alumni Day prior to their game with St. Joseph's Long Island, highlighting the 2000 and 2005 Skyline Championship teams.
 
The Basics
Score: Mount Saint Mary College 66, SJLI 87
Records: Mount Saint Mary College (2-15, 0-8 Skyline) | SJLI (9-8, 5-3)
 
Rapid Recap
Mount Saint Mary celebrated Alumni Day prior to their game today, with hopes of using one of their largest crowds of the season to their advantage against St. Joseph's Long Island. A Matthew Walsh steal led to Brenden Graham getting the easy score on the other end. Each team went back and forth, trading baskets, until an 8-0 run by the Golden Eagles gave them a 19-11 lead. Brenden Graham ended a near 5-minute scoring drought for the Knights with a three, but Long Island would score 13 of the next 15 points to go up 32-16. Matthew Walsh drained back-to-back threes late in the half to boost the Mount Saint Mary offense, as they would trail 39-27 at the end of the first.

It was a three-point shootout to start the second half, as the first 6 made baskets between both teams were all threes. Justin Rivera was the leading scorer for the team, finishing with 14 points on the afternoon. 8-straight points for the Mount cut their deficit to 52-44 with 12 minutes left in the game, the closest the Knights were to the Golden Eagles' lead since early in the first half. Mount Saint Mary's run would stall out, with St. Joe's taking another double-digit lead, and things would stay like that for the remainder of the game. The Knights shot a solid 37.5% from beyond the arc in the second half, but the Golden Eagles would shoot 53.13% from the field and an even better 53.85% from three in the half. St. Joseph's Long Island would end up beating Mount Saint Mary 87-66.

Notes and Numbers        

• Justin Rivera: 14 points
• Matthew Walsh: 12 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 steals