STANDISH, ME - FY Chris Davis (New York, NY) scored a game and career high 25 points and SO Alonso Davis (Richmond, VA) added 18 points to help the Monks get past GNAC counterpart Suffolk College, 84-71 on Monday night. SJC improves to 8-4 in conference play and is now 10-9 overall. Suffolk now holds a 1-11 GNAC record and is 2-17 overall.

Chris Davis scored 6 points in the first four minutes to help the Monks stake an early 12-2 lead over the Rams. Suffolk battled back to within 3 points in the following three minutes and kept the game close for remainder of the first half as SJC held a five point lead going into the break.

Rams guard Alan Jaziri (Norwich, CT) scored 5 points in the opening minute of the second stanza to knot up the score at 39-39. In the following four minutes, St. Joe's pilfered three steals helped the Monks tally a 13-0 run and go up by a 52-39 score.

Suffolk lessened the Monks lead to 8 points after Jaziri hit a pair of free throws with nine minutes remaining but could not manage to get any closer for the duration of the game as St. Joe's would extend the lead to as much as 21 points late in the half before settling on a final 84-71 score.

Alonso Davis added 11 boards to go along with his 18 points to notch a double-double effort and sank 6 of 7 attempts from the charity stripe in the conference contest. Chris Davis made 10 of 13 field goal attempts and registered 6 boards, 3 steals and 2 blocked shots in the Royal Blue victory. JR Elbie Murphy (Loudonville, NY) scored 19 points dished out 8 assists and grabbed 3 steals. SO Ray Eatmon (Huntington, NY) added 8 points and 8 rebounds for St. Joe's

Rams guard Mike Fleming (Exeter, NH) made 7 three-pointers and scored 23 points to lead all Suffolk scorers and Brian Small (Stoughton, MA) netted 14 points. Alan Jaziri added 11 points in the losing bid.

St. Joe's will travel to Nashua, NH to take on GNAC foe Rivier College on Wednesday, 2/6 at 7:00 PM.



Suffolk vs St. Joseph's (Me.)
02/04/08 7:00 PM at Standish, Maine

ST. JOSEPH'S (ME.) 84, SUFFOLK 71

SUFFOLK (2-17, 1-11 GNAC)
Mike Fleming 8-17 0-0 23; Brian Small 6-13 0-3 14; Alan Jaziri 3-11 4-4 11;
Kevin Blake 3-3 0-0 7; Mario Massimino 2-8 1-2 5; Allan Ray 2-8 0-0 4; Brad
Seaman 1-1 1-1 3; Joseph Ransom 0-2 2-4 2; Tim Skaggs 1-4 0-0 2; Jay Mullin
0-1 0-0 0; Michael Lindberg 0-3 0-0 0; Michael Demarski 0-1 0-0 0. Totals
26-72 8-14 71.

ST. JOSEPH'S (ME.) (10-9, 8-4 GNAC)
Chris Davis 10-13 5-7 25; Elbie Murphy 7-13 4-8 19; Alonso Davis 6-9 6-7 18;
Raymond Eatmon 4-6 0-2 8; Scot Vachon 2-4 0-0 5; Rashon Jones 1-1 0-0 3;
Alberto Rue 1-6 0-0 3; Jay Tutwiler 0-0 2-2 2; T.J. Tandberg 0-1 1-2 1;
Mitch Ouellet 0-0 0-0 0; Eric Friend 0-1 0-0 0; Tyler Kelley 0-1 0-0 0;
Anthony Savino 0-1 0-0 0; Bobby Russo 0-2 0-0 0; R.J. Mattison 0-3 0-0 0.
Totals 31-61 18-28 84.

Suffolk....................... 34 37 - 71
St. Joseph's (Me.)............ 39 45 - 84

3-point goals-
Suffolk 11-34 (Mike Fleming 7-15; Brian Small 2-6; Kevin Blake 1-1; Alan Jaziri 1-5; Joseph Ransom 0-1; Michael Lindberg 0-1; Michael Demarski 0-1; Allan Ray 0-3; Mario
Massimino 0-1)

St. Joseph's (Me.) 4-12 (Rashon Jones 1-1; Scot Vachon 1-1; Elbie Murphy 1-3; Alberto Rue 1-3; Eric Friend 0-1; Bobby Russo 0-1; R.J. Mattison 0-2)

Fouled out-
Suffolk-Mike Fleming
St. Joseph's (Me.)-None

Rebounds-
Suffolk 33 (Mario Massimino 6; Brian Small 6)
St. Joseph's (Me.) 52 (Alonso Davis 11)

Assists-
Suffolk 18 (Michael Lindberg 5)
St. Joseph's (Me.) 21 (Elbie Murphy 8)

Total fouls-
Suffolk 23
St. Joseph's (Me.) 18

A-200