EASTON, MASS. (March 1, 2025) – Sophomore Louie Semona (Cincinnati, Ohio) and senior Nathan McGill (Dillsburg, Pa.) set new career-highs in scoring to lead the Stonehill men's basketball team to an 85-79 win on senior day over Le Moyne at Merkert Gym.

LEADERS

• Semona's career-high of 33 points came on a 10-17 shooting performance from the field while going 5-8 from three and 8-11 from the free throw line. He also had three rebounds, one assist and one steal.
• McGill had a perfect shooting performance, going 5-5 from the field, 1-1 from deep, and 2-2 from the charity stripe en route to career-highs of 13 points and seven rebounds in 34 minutes of action.
• Le Moyne's AJ Dancler led the Dolphins with 28 points, five rebounds, and four assists, cashing in on five three-pointers in the loss.

FIRST HALF

• Semona scored the first eight points of the game but the Dolphins responded with a 10-2 run to tie the score, 10-10, until three straight buckets from long range put the Skyhawks back in front, 19-10.
• Le Moyne countered again, going on a 14-4 as the Dolphins took their first lead of the game, 24-23.
• Le Moyne kept its momentum going for the remainder of the first half, outscoring Stonehill 16-8 over the final five minutes of action with Ocypher Owens tallying seven points during the Dolphins run that gave them a 38-31 lead at the break.

SECOND HALF

• Back-to-back buckets to open the second half gave Le Moyne its largest lead of the game, 12 points (43-31), but Semona went on a 7-0 run by himself to bring Stonehill back within five, 43-38.
• Dancler and Owens continued to keep the Skyhawks from retaking the lead, answering every run Stonehill could put together but McGill's 13th point of the second half on a stepback jumper made it a one possession game, 71-68, with under six minutes to play.
• Dancler knocked down his fifth three of the game to make the score 76-71 but from that moment on, it was all Stonehill. The Skyhawks went on a 12-1 run, forcing the Dolphins to miss their next six shot attempts capped off by a three-pointer from junior Ethan Meuser (Shavertown, Pa.) that made the score 81-77 in favor of the Skyhawks with 33 seconds left.
• Semona went 4-4 from the free throw line to put the game on ice in the final 30 seconds, securing Stonehill's 85-79 win on senior day.

NOTEWORTHY

• Stonehill improves to 19-26 all time against Le Moyne, snapping a three-game losing streak against the Dolphins as the Skyhawks earned their first win over their former NE10 foe at the Division I level.
• McGill made his seventh career start in his 83rd career appearance, setting new career highs in points (13), field goals made (5), field goal attempts (5), rebounds (7), and minutes played (34). He also matched his career-high of two assists for the ninth time in his career.
• Semona scored 20+ points for the eighth time this season, a team-best mark as he remains the team's leading scorer at 13.2 points per game. Semona also matched his career high of five three-pointers made. He now ranks ninth in the NEC in scoring.
• Sophomore Todd Brogna (Southborough, Mass.) has now recorded at least six rebounds in 13 of the last 15 games as he leads the team and ranks fourth in the NEC at 6.7 per game.
• Saturday's game marked the fourth time this season Stonehill made at least 50% of its three point attempts (12-24). The Skyhawks are now 3-1 when reaching that mark.
• Stonehill made 27 free throws on 31 attempts against the Dolphins, the most made free throws by a Skyhawk team since January 19, 2022, in a 78-68 loss at Pace (29-36).

UP NEXT

• The fifth-seeded Stonehill men's basketball team (15-16, 7-9 NEC) will make its first-ever appearance in the Northeast Conference Championship Tournament on Wednesday, March 5 at 7 p.m. when the Skyhawks travel to Hackensack, N.J. to take on the fourth-seeded FDU Knights (12-19, 8-8 NEC) at the Bogota Savings Bank Center.

 
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