Box Score NEW LONDON, N.H. – November 23, 2013 – The Colby-Sawyer College men's basketball team defeated Norwich, 80-56 in non-conference action Saturday afternoon at the David L. Coffin Field House.

BOX SCORE


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Colby-Sawyer evens its record at 1-1 and will host Plymouth on December 3 at 7:30 p.m. Norwich falls to 1-3 and returns to action at Lasell, also on December 3.

The Chargers led from the opening tip and received double figure scoring from four players. Junior Koang Thok (Portland, Maine) and junior Zach Bean (Scarborough, Maine) poured in 17 apiece. Sophomore Peter Donato (Portland, Maine) added a career-high 15 points, while junior Mike Dias (Carver, Mass.) added 11. Dias just missed a double-double with nine rebounds. Senior Stephen Thorpe (Chicago, Ill.) collected a game-high seven assists.

Norwich was led by Grant Brown's (Whitinsville, Mass.) 15 points off the bench. Senior Tom McDonald (Groton, Mass.) scored 12, while junior Evan Tullar (Chelsea, Vt.) chipped in 11 points, nine rebounds, six assists and three steals.

Colby-Sawyer scored the game's first eight points behind a pair of trey's from Wol Majong (Manchester, N.H.) and a Thok lay-in. A bucket by Mike Dias at 13:43 gave the Chargers their first double figures lead that they would not relinquish. Thok connected on a trey with 2:22 remaining to build the largest lead of the half at 39-17. Colby-Sawyer out-rebounded the Cadets 26-13 and scored 14 of its 18 second chance points in the first half.

Both teams shot the ball better in the second half, but Colby-Sawyer was more efficient making 14 of 22, while the Cadets hit 10 of 25. Norwich made a mini-spurt in the first four minutes of the second frame with a Brown trey and five points from Tullar to cut the deficit to 12. Colby-Sawyer responded with eight straight points to push the advantage up to 20 and cruised to the 80-56 win.