Men's Hoops Earns Road Win at Newbury

BROOKLINE, Mass. - The Mitchell College men's basketball team picked up its first conference road win of the season on Saturday afternoon by a 63-62 final over Newbury College.

Sophomore Julio Contreras paved the way to victory for the Mariners (3-15 overall, 2-7 NECC) with a team-high 15 points and seven assists. Senior Mike DePaolo and junior Drew Norris also scored in double figures with 14 and 13 points, respectively.

Mitchell jumped out to an early lead before Timothy Young and Chris Torres helped bring the Nighthawks back. Young drained four treys in the first half for 16 of his game-high 21 points while Torres added 10 points of his own. Still, the Mariners took a 39-32 lead into the locker room at the break.

Mitchell led for the majority of the second half, though Newbury (5-15 overall, 3-6 NECC) mounted a valiant come-back behind the play of Rondell Best, who scored 10 of his 14 points in the stanza. The Nighthawks took their first lead of the half on a layup by Torres with 3:06 to play, but the Mariners answered right back behind a pair of DePaolo free throws. After Newbury pulled ahead by two on a three-point play by Paul Beckford, DePaolo put the Mariners in front for good with a trey with under a minute to go.

The win snapped a six-game losing skid for the Mariners, who split the regular season series against Newbury. Mitchell is now tied for seventh place in the NECC standings and trails Newbury by one game for the final spot in the upcoming conference championship.

Mitchell will next play at Becker College on Thursday, February 11 at 7 p.m.