BOSTON, Mass.—Suffolk University used an early 13-0 run and never let UMass Boston men's basketball fully back into the game, in an 80-62 loss for the Beacons at the Clark Athletic Center Gymnasium. 

THE BASICS 
Suffolk University 80, UMass Boston 62
(UMass Boston 4-4) 
(Suffolk 8-1) 

HOW IT HAPPENED
 
The Rams raced out to a 13-2 lead and never let the Beacons get closer than eight points the rest of the way. 
 
Freshman Ike Eluwa (Princeton, N.J.) posted a career-high 13 points and five rebounds for the Beacons in the loss. He finished 5-8 from the field and tacked on two steals and one block. 
 
Charles Mitchell (Boston, Mass.) and Charlie Mitchell (Boston, Mass.) each finished with nine points apiece. Stephen DiGregorio (Marlborough, Mass.) chipped in six points and a team-high four assists, while Malik Lorquet (Sharon, Mass.) tacked on six points and a team-high nine rebounds and two blocks.
 
Suffolk graduate student Nate Hale led all players with 17 points on 6-12 shooting. William Rowe registered 12 points and nine rebounds and John Gates (11 points ) and Keenan Robertson (10 points) also finished in double-figures. 
 
The Beacons opened the scoring just 13 seconds in, when Lorquet knocked down a lay-in. Suffolk would immediately go on a game-changing 13-0 run. 
 
Hale, Rowe and Robertson combined for all 13 points during the run, with Hale posting seven points. 
 
Charlie Mitchell would respond with a 3-point play to cut the deficit to eight with 15:32 to go, but that would be as close as UMass Boston would get. The Beacons would keep the game between eight and 14 points for the rest of the half and went into the break trailing 40-28. 
 
After going down 14 early in the second half, UMass Boston used an 8-4 run to cut the deficit to 10 points with 12:25 to play. Sophomore Bobby Joy (Harwich, Mass.) scored five points during the flurry, including hitting UMass Boston's first three of the game. 
 
Coming out of the timeout, Suffolk used a 14-2 run to put the game out of reach. The Rams forced four Beacons turnovers during the span and hit five of six free throws to take a 64-22 lead with 7:59 to play. 
 
The Beacons bench got UMass Boston back within 12 points late thanks to several 3-pointers from Emmanuel Zayas (Hollywood, Fla.) and Bryson Henry (Franklin, N.J.) 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• UMass Boston finished the game shooting 36.2 percent (25-69) and 5-26 (19.2 percent) from distance. The Rams ended the game hitting 46.8 percent (29-62) of their shots. 
• With the loss, UMass Boston falls to 21-11 all-time against the Rams. The two teams have met in each of the past 30 seasons that UMass Boston has had a men's basketball season. 
• Eluwa more than doubled his career-high in points (five previously) and almost doubled his career-high in rebounds (three). The freshman went 5-8 from the field, 1-2 from deep and 2-3 from the free throw line. 
• Suffolk has now won seven in a row and averaged 82.9 points per game during that run. 
• Charles Mitchell is just 20 points behind Taharri Turner ('98) for sixth-place in program history in career points (1,289).

WHO'S NEXT 
 
UMass Boston will travel to take on Eastern Nazarene College on Saturday at 1 p.m in their fourth game in eight days.