NEW LONDON, N.H.—UMass Boston men's basketball shot 50 percent from the floor and led from start-to-finish, in a 72-51 win over host Colby-Sawyer College on Saturday night. 
 
THE BASICS
UMass Boston 72, Colby-Sawyer College 51
(UMass Boston 3-1)
(Colby-Sawyer College 1-3) 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
 
Ten different Beacons finished with at least three points as UMass Boston picked up their third-straight victory. 
 
Stephen DiGregorio (Marlborough, Mass.) paced the Beacons with a career-best 15 points in the win. The sophomore guard went 6-10 from the field and tacked on four rebounds, four assists and one steal. 
 
Senior Charles Mitchell (Boston, Mass.) added 14 points, a game-high six assists, four steals and four rebounds in the win. 
 
Malik Lorquet (Sharon, Mass.) just missed out on a double-double with nine points and nine rebounds, while Tommy Burris (Dalton, Mass.) and Malik Brooms (Roxbury, Mass.) chipped in eight and seven points. 
 
Colby-Sawyer's Zach Caraballo tied for the game-high with 15 points on 6-9 shooting. Omar Boone was the only other Charger in double-figures, as he recorded 11 points in Colby-Sawyer's 2021-22 home opener. 
 
Burris opened the game by draining a pair of 3-pointers in the opening 90 seconds to give the Beacons the lead for good (6-2). Colby-Sawyer would cut the deficit to 10-9 with 14:03 to play in the half, but UMass Boston would reply with a Lorquet lay-in and five-straight points from Brooms to make it 17-9 midway through the half. 
 
The Beacons would extend their lead to 41-24 at the break thanks to a 10-2 run to end the half. Lorquet opened the flurry with a lay-up and a 3-point play, before DiGregorio drained a deep 3-pointer and Charlie Mitchell (Boston, Mass.) hit a buzzer-beating jumper. 
 
UMass Boston would use one final run to put the hosts completely at bay. With the Beacons lead sitting comfortably at 52-34 with 12:55 to play, UMass Boston used a 12-2 run to grab a 64-36 advantage (8:16 to play). The Beacons began and finished the flurry with 3-pointers from Bobby Joy (Harwich, Mass.) and Emanuel Zayas (Hollywood, Fla.). 
 
BY THE NUMBERS

• UMass Boston finished the game shooting 50.0 percent (29-58) from the floor and 56.3 percent (9-16) from distance. 
• With the win, UMass Boston improved to 4-0 all-time against Colby-Sawyer College. Saturday's matchup was the first meeting since November 18, 2014 and the first-ever meeting at Colby-Sawyer. 
• The Beacons earned a 26-15 edge in points off turnovers and a 22-7 lead in bench points. 
• With the win, UMass Boston seventh-year head coach Jason Harris (68-67) moves above .500 in his tenure at UMass Boston for the first time since his first season. 
• Charles Mitchell moved into ninth place in program history in career steals (160) with his four steals on the night. The 2019-20 Little East Conference Defensive Player of the Year recorded 50 or more steals in his first three seasons. 
• Freshman guard Shawn Goss (Brockton, Mass.) made his collegiate debut in the victory.

WHO'S NEXT 
 
UMass Boston will host the first-ever Black Coaches Classic on Saturday at the Clark Athletic Center. In the first game of the night, #11 Tufts University will take on Lesley University (5:00 p.m.), while the Beacons will host #25 Brandeis University in the late game (7:30 p.m.)