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WEST HAVEN, Conn. – Behind a career-high 33 points from senior guard Elijah Bailey (Freeport, N.Y./The Hotchkiss School), the New Haven men's basketball team (8-8, 6-4 NE10) continued its dominance of the Northeast-10 Northeast Division with an 80-73 victory over visiting Saint Anselm on Wednesday night. The win over the Hawks improves the Chargers to 4-0 in cross-divisional play.

Bailey's second game of the season with 30+ points came on 12-of-22 shooting, which included a team-high four three pointers. He was also a perfect 5-of-5 at the free throw line which is where his new career-high was set when he went 2-for-2 at the line with 29 seconds remaining to put his team ahead by two possessions. Also among his 33 points, Bailey surpassed 1,500 points for his career becoming the 14th player to reach that scoring plateau in a Charger uniform.

Overall, Bailey was one of four players in double figures, followed by redshirt junior Derrick Rowland (Cohoes, N.Y./Green Tech) who put up 15 points which came on 5-of-11 shooting while he also matched the team-high with four three pointers. Rowland also led New Haven with six assists as he extended his team lead to 84 for the season.

Also among the leading scorers was senior Kessly Felizor (Hightstown, N.J./Hightstown) who chipped in 14 points while rookie Davontrey Thomas (Poughkeepsie, N.Y./Poughkeepsie) closed out the pack with 12 points. Overall, all but two of the Chargers 80 points came from the starting five. Sophomore point guard Quashawn Lane (Trenton, N.J./Trenton Catholic Academy) rounded out the starters with four points while senior Darius Roundtree (Plainfield, N.J./The Patrick School) provided the only action off the bench with a pair of points.

As a team, New Haven finished the night shooting 44.6 percent from the field, converting 25-of-56 field goal attempts. Among the 25 buckets were 10 from long range, which came on 25 attempts for a 40 percent average. The Blue and Gold also capitalized on their 22 attempts from the free throw line, converting 20 of those for a 90.9 percent performance. Leading the way at the line was Felizor (9-of-10) and Thomas (5-of-6) to go along with Bailey's perfect 5-of-5 effort.

The Chargers did surrender the battle of the boards by a 37-28 margin with Felizor and Thomas combining to lead the team. The senior post player pulled down a team-high eight rebounds while Thomas followed just behind him with seven.

New Haven closes out its month of weekend road games with a trip back to the Bay State where it will meet the Assumption Greyhounds on Saturday, January 25. Opening tip against in the cross-divisional match-up is slated for 3:30 p.m., following the women's game.