BOX SCORE ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. – Justin Exum (Brooklyn, N.Y./Xaverian) led all players with 22 points as the University of New Haven men’s basketball team topped host Molloy, 62-47, to earn its fourth consecutive win. Eric Anderson (Newark, N.J./Newark Tech) posted nine points and 16 rebounds in the victory.
 
With the win, the Chargers pulled even on the 2012-13 campaign at 5-5. The triumph is New Haven’s first road win of the season. The victory also marks the second time this season that New Haven ceded less than 50 points. The Chargers wrap up non-conference play at 3-1 with three-straight victories against non-NE-10 foes.
 
Molloy, which w as chosen to finish fourth in the East Coast Conference Preseason Coaches’ Poll, drops to 5-5.
 
Exum knocked down six three-pointers and went 4-for-4 from the free throw line to account for his game-best 22 points. The Chargers’ leading scorer has averaged 19.8 points per game during New Haven’s current four-game winning streak. Exum netted a career-best 36 points with eight three-pointers against the Lions last season in a 90-62 Chargers’ triumph.
 
Anderson fell just shy of his sixth double-double of the year with nine points and a career-best 16 rebounds. His efforts led the Chargers to a 41-34 advantage on the glass, including 11 second-chance points for New Haven.
 
Jeremy Williams (Silver Spring, Md./Springbrook) added 11 points, four rebounds and four assists, and Jeffery Adkins (Piscataway, N.J./Piscataway) filled out his statline with eight points, seven rebounds and a game-high six helpers. Cyrus James (Manchester, Conn./Howell Cheney Tech), Ashanti DePass (Baldwin, N.Y./Baldwin) and Joshua Guddemi (Nottingham, England/Derby) rounded out the scoring with four points apiece.
 
As a unit, New Haven shot 20-for-53 (37.7 percent) from the floor, 9-for-22 (40.9 percent) from three-point range and 13-for-19 (68.4 percent) from the free-throw line against the ECC’s stingiest defense.
 
Matt McLeod had a team-high 13 points off the bench for Molloy, which shot 17-for-53 (32.1 percent) from the field with only one made three-pointer on 11 tries from distance (9.1 percent).
 
Each team committed 10 turnovers as the Chargers lowered their Northeast-10-leading average to just 11.9 miscues per game.
 
New Haven led nearly wire-to-wire, as Exum’s first three-pointer of the day staked the Chargers with a 4-2 lead that they would not relinquish. The margin soon grew courtesy of an 11-4 run that featured treys from Exum, DePass and Adkins as UNH quickly doubled-up the home team at 20-10 with 10:29 remaining until the intermission.
 
The lead shrank momentarily to two points at 25-23. But yet another Exum trey followed by two Guddemi free throws extended it back to seven points. That margin stood up as the first half came to a close with New Haven heading to the locker room owning a 34-27 advantage.
 
The Chargers ceded only one field goal over the first 6:45 of the contest, but the Lions’ defense was equally as tough as the seven-point difference remained at 38-31. Molloy made one final push to cut the deficit to 40-38, but the Chargers would surrender only nine more points over the last 11:15 as New Haven pulled away, leading by as many as 17 points in an eventual 62-47 triumph.
 
As the calendar turns to 2013, there will be nothing but Northeast-10 contests remaining on the Chargers’ regular-season slate. The run of 16-straight NE-10 games begins at Charger Gymnasium on Jan. 5, 2013 against Pace.