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Saratoga Springs, N.Y.-- The Skidmore College men's basketball team ran its record to 3-0 with a 62-52 non-league win over SUNY Oneonta, Wednesday night at the Williamson Sports Center. 
 
The Thoroughbreds never trailed and led by as many as 20 in the second half.
 
Brian Lowry scored a game-high 15 points to go along with eight rebounds for Skidmore. Teammate Gerard O'Shea contributed 13 points and three assists.
 
For Oneonta (1-3), Kevin Donahue had 14 points and Lukas Slivinsky scored 13.  Frankie Kelly had nine assists and three steals.
 
The Thoroughbreds ran out to an 8-0 lead on a field goal by Terron Victoria and three-pointers from O'Shea and Melvis Langyintuo.   The Red Dragons eventually slowed Skidmore down and battled back to tie it 10-10 with 9:03 left in the half.  The Thoroughbreds responded with a 19-5 run to open the lead to 29-15 with 2:45 to play in the half.  Skidmore's bench came through in the run with 13 of the 19 points scored by non-starters, including a pair of threes by John Mantas.   Oneonta used two late baskets to cut the lead to nine, 29-20 at the half.
 
In the second half, Skidmore patiently extended the lead to 20 points to go up 57-37 with 6:10 to play.  The Red Dragons used a 12-0 run to pull to within eight, 57-49, but that was as close as they would get.  Donahue had seven of his team's 10 points in the late rally.

Mantas finished with nine points and three steals, while Langyintuo had six points, four blocks, and seven rebounds.

"Defensively I thought we did some good things," said Skidmore coach Joe Burke. "We take a lot of pride in that so its nice to see us keep getting better. Our performance on that end of the floor proved to be the difference and allowed us to get the win. It was a struggle all night on offense but credit Oneonta. They are a tough, physical group and they were able to take us out of rhythm.

"We have to get back to work tomorrow and get better. We will have a difficult test on Saturday in a great environment against a very, very good team."

Skidmore hits the road for the first time this season, traveling to William Paterson University on Dec. 3 for a 3 p.m. game.  Oneonta will host Buffalo State on Dec. 2 at 8 p.m.
 
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Newspaper Box Score
Oneonta vs Skidmore College
11/30/11 7 pm at Williamson Center
At Williamson Center
SKIDMORE COLLEGE 62, ONEONTA 52
ONEONTA (1-3)
Kevin DONAHUE 5-8 3-3 14; Lukas SLIVINSKY 4-14 5-6 13; Larry BRINK 2-2 3-5
7; Dan LEE 2-5 1-2 7; Nick SARCHIOTO 2-7 1-1 5; Dan MCLAREN 1-5 1-2 3;
Cameron BOYDEN 1-3 1-2 3; Jahfari JONES 0-1 0-0 0; Ryan CLARK 0-2 0-0 0;
Frankie KELLY 0-8 0-2 0. Totals 17-55 15-23 52.
SKIDMORE COLLEGE (3-0)
Brian Lowry 5-13 4-8 15; Gerard O'Shea 3-9 6-9 13; John Mantas 3-7 0-0 9;
Melvis Langyintuo 2-4 0-0 6; Connor Merrill 2-5 0-0 4; Terron Victoria 2-7
0-0 4; Kevin Dahill 2-3 0-0 4; Sakhile Sithole 1-5 1-2 3; Eli Johnston 1-1
0-0 3; Quenten Howard 0-2 1-2 1; Brian Moore 0-0 0-0 0; Nanribet Yiljep 0-2
0-0 0; Raoul Oloa 0-6 0-0 0. Totals 21-64 12-21 62.
Oneonta.......................   20   32  -   52
Skidmore College..............   29   33  -   62
3-point goals--Oneonta 3-14 (Dan LEE 2-3; Kevin DONAHUE 1-3; Dan MCLAREN
0-3; Frankie KELLY 0-1; Lukas SLIVINSKY 0-4), Skidmore College 8-23 (John
Mantas 3-4; Melvis Langyintuo 2-3; Brian Lowry 1-4; Gerard O'Shea 1-4; Eli
Johnston 1-1; Nanribet Yiljep 0-1; Raoul Oloa 0-3; Sakhile Sithole 0-1;
Terron Victoria 0-2). Fouled out--Oneonta-None, Skidmore College-Terron
Victoria. Rebounds--Oneonta 42 (Frankie KELLY 7; Cameron BOYDEN 7), Skidmore
College 49 (Brian Lowry 8). Assists--Oneonta 11 (Frankie KELLY 9), Skidmore
College 8 (Gerard O'Shea 3). Total fouls--Oneonta 20, Skidmore College 21.
Technical fouls--Oneonta-None, Skidmore College-None. A-235