MANCHESTER, N.H. – Senior Owen McGlashan (Marlton, N.J.) of the Saint Anselm College men's basketball team posted a career-high 26 points in Saturday's 72-63 loss to the University of New Haven.
Receiving votes in the National Association of Basketball Coaches' poll, Saint Anselm sees an eight-game winning streak come to an end. The Hawks exit the day with a 10-4 overall record alongside a 7-2 mark in Northeast-10 Conference play.
McGlashan was 10-for-17 from the floor, pouring home five three-point baskets, and adding seven rebounds. Junior Matt Becker (Fairfield, Conn.) led the Hawks with nine rebounds and matched senior Miles Tention (Palo Alto, Calif.) with five assists.
Tention scored 14 points with senior Tyler Arbuckle (Bristol, Conn.), who joined McGlashan and Tention by playing all 40 minutes, scored 15 points. Tention, competing in his 100th career game on Saturday, has played at least 37 minutes in each of the last 11 games for Saint Anselm.
A slow start where Saint Anselm scored just two points in the first five-plus minutes preceded a dominant 17-0 scoring run by the Hawks – McGlashan had nine of his team's points in that span to capture a 19-9 advantage with 10:24 to go in the opener.
Trailing down the stretch thanks to a 12-4 run by New Haven, Arbuckle put his team ahead by a 37-36 lead at the break thanks to a last-second Arbuckle heave from beyond the arc. New Haven shot well over 50% from the floor, but the Hawks made seven of their 14 field goals from distance.
For the second-straight half, Saint Anselm had just one basket in the first five minutes of the second half as a McGlashan triple was his team's lone score on its first seven shots of the stanza. Ahead by just two points, 45-43, New Haven pushed ahead by making six of its next eight shots to capture a 56-51 lead.
Saint Anselm trimmed the lead to two points, 60-58, following a Tention trey with 2:42 left in regulation time, but could not close the deficit. New Haven scored 12 of the final 17 points of the game.
New Haven shot 51.9% from the floor while the Hawks were under 40% shooting for the game. The Chargers, led by the nation's fourth-best rebounder Majur Majak, held the 36-to-30 edge in caroms and scored 40 points in the paint – the Hawks generated just 26 points under the basket.
Saint Anselm hosts Le Moyne this Tuesday, Jan. 10 at 5:30 p.m. in NE10 play before hitting the road for four of its next five games.
