WEST HAVEN, CONN. – The University of New Haven men's basketball team placed three players in double figures as the Chargers beat the Assumption Greyhounds 68-62 at Charger Gymnasium Saturday afternoon in a Northeast-10 Conference matchup.

The Chargers improve to 9-5 overall and even their conference record at 4-4, while Assumption falls to 3-6 in the NE-10 and 6-8 overall.
 
Eric Anderson (Newark, N.J./Newark Tech) continued to his strong season season, putting up 21 points and 10 rebounds for his ninth doule-double of the year, adding six assists and three blocks. Jemal Mosley (Spring Valley, N.Y./Don Bosco Prep / Putnam Science Academy) was 5-for-7 from behind the arc, scoring 17 points while Samir McDaniels (Roxbury, Mass./New Mission) and Jonny Ocasio (Queens, N.Y./Charlotte (Fla.) / Hillsborough Community College) tallied ten apiece.
 
After Assumption scored the first basket of the game, the Chargers went on a 10-0 run to take a 10-2 lead and eventually extended their advantage to 15 points. Mosley hit his first four 3-point attempts in the opening stanza while Anderson added eight points of his own. The Greyhounds clawed their way back in the game with help from 11 first-half points from Terrance Bobb-Jones and eight from Jimmy Zenevitch, cutting the New Haven lead to 35-33 at halftime.
 
Assumption kept things close in the second half, gaining their second and final lead of the game from a Karl Ziegler bucket seven minutes in. Eric Anderson answered quickly with a basket of his own giving New Haven the lead for good.
           
Free-throws were a factor for the Greyhounds as they managed just on just under 61 percent of their attempts for the game while the Chargers were 9-for-11 at the charity stripe. Bobb-Jones ended with 20 points and ten rebounds, while Ziegler and Kamali Bey put up 13 and ten points, respectively.

New Haven returns to action on Tuesday at 3:00 pm when is hosts Saint Michael's in a Northeast-10 matchup as part of its Class at the Court event.