Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – The College of Mount Saint Vincent Men's Basketball team was dealt its eighth straight loss on Thursday night following a 88-49 loss to Wartburg as part of the 2013 Cruzin Classic. Kevin Henry (Yonkers, N.Y.) and Brandon Serrano (Hempstead, N.Y.) paced the Mount with 12 points each.
 
The Dolphins never led in the game and quickly fell behind 11-2 following a four point play from Jordan Cannon with 15:37 on the first half clock. The Knights would push the lead to 18 points on a Thomas Perkins triple at the 10:43 mark and did not allow the Dolphins' their 10^th point until a Henry bucket with 6:27 left before halftime.
 
The Wartburg lead grew to a half-high 21 points twice in the final four minutes of the first half, before the Mount used a 6-0 spurt to pull to within 36-21 in the final minute. Wartburg answered with the last two baskets of the period, including a tip-in from Eddie Diemer with two seconds left, to take a 40-21 lead into halftime.
 
Mount Saint Vincent went 8-for-24 from the floor in the opening 20 minutes with Henry leading the way eight points. Despite holding Wartburg to 39.4-percent shooting, the Mount allowed six three-point field goals and nine different Knights to find the scoring column.
 
The Knights shot better than 58-percent from the floor after halftime and moved in front by 30 on a Nick Webber three-point play with just over nine minutes to play in regulation. The largest lead of the game came on a Ryan Romine lay-in in the final eight seconds, part of a 32-10 second half advantage in points in the paint.
 
Mount Saint Vincent finished the game shooing 33.3-percent from the floor and went 0-for-14 from behind the arc. Thursday's game marked the seventh time this season the Mount has failed to shoot 40-percent from the floor and it marked the first time since January 14, 2006 it has not made a three-point field goal, a span of 195 games.
Henry finished the game 4-for-6 from the floor and 4-for-4 from the free-throw line as he scored in double-figures for the third straight game. Henry led the team with five rebounds and added a pair of steals. Serrano finished up 6-for-13 on his way to matching the team-high in scoring.
 
Ryan Biddiscombe (Rockaway Park, N.Y.) scored a career-high seven points in his first career start and Christian Giles (East Elmhurst, N.Y.) handed out all five of Mount Saint Vincent's assists in the game.
 
Wartburg had four players score in double-figures in the game, led by 12 points off the bench from Romine. He went 5-for-6 from the floor in the game and was one of four Wartburg players to net at least four field goals. Tanner Kramer led the team with four assists, while Diemer and Brett Ahlgren pulled down a game-high seven rebounds.
 
The Knights finished shot 49.3-percent for the game and went 8-for-33 from three-point distance on the night. Wartburg outscored the Mount 42-16 in the paint and 14-4 on the fast break.
 
Thursday's loss drops Mount Saint Vincent to 1-8 overall on the season. The Dolphins will be back in action after the holiday break when they host league rival Mount Saint Mary on January 4. Tip-off at the Peter Jay Sharp Center is scheduled for 3:00 p.m.

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