WEST HAVEN, Conn. - Tommy Hunt (Smithfield, R.I./St. Andrew's) hit a go-ahead three-pointer with 6.9 seconds remaining as the University of New Haven men's basketball team earned a thrilling 57-56 victory against the Le Moyne Dolphins in a Northeast-10 Conference Southwest Division tilt at Charger Gymnasium on Tuesday evening.

With the win, New Haven is now 13-10 overall and is 8-9 in the NE-10. Le Moyne drops to 14-10 with an 8-9 record in conference.

Jemal Mosley (Spring Valley, N.Y./Don Bosco Prep / Putnam Science Academy) led the way for the Chargers with 16 points, 12 of them coming in the second half. Samir McDaniels (Roxbury, Mass./New Mission) and Levy Gillespie (Meriden, Conn./Capital Preparatory Magnet) added 11 points apiece while Eric Anderson (Newark, N.J./Newark Tech) contributed a game-high 12 rebounds.

New Haven got off to a slow start and found itself down 30-15 with 3:09 remaining in the first half. A jumper by Anderson and back-to-back three-pointers by Gillespie fueled an 8-0 run to end the stanza, sending the Chargers into the locker room down by only seven at halftime.

After the Dolphins scored the first two points of the second half on a Ryan Romich layup, New Haven went back on the attack, netting the next 12 points as Mosley, Hunt, McDaniels and Joshua Guddemi (Nottingham, England/Derby) all scored to put the Chargers on top 35-32 at the 15:18 mark. Le Moyne responded with a 16-6 run of its own during the ensuing 6:34 to take a 48-41 lead with 8:44 to go.

The Blue and Gold battled back to tie the game at 50-50 on a triple by Jayson Cethoute (East Elmhurst, N.Y./Archbishop Molloy) with 4:19 left in the contest. After a jumper and two free throws by Qwadere Lovell put the Dolphins up 54-50, New Haven rallied again. Two free throws by McDaniels at and a jumper by Mosley sandwiched a Lovell make at the charity stripe to close the gap to 55-54 with 1:15 remaining.

Neither team scored during the next 55 seconds before Lovell missed the front end of a one-and-one with 20 seconds remaining. After a timeout, Mosley drove to the lane from the right side before kicking the ball out to Hunt, who found the bottom of the net with his second trey of the night, putting New Haven on top to stay.

The Chargers complete a three-game homestand against NE-10 Southwest Division foe Pace on Saturday, Feb. 14 at 3:30 p.m.