PHILADELPHIA – The Holy Family University men's basketball team opened its home schedule with a 73-52 victory over College of Staten on Wednesday night at the Campus Center.
 
Individual Highlights

• David Robinson Jr. (Philadelphia, Pa./Chestnut Hill Academy) led all players with 16 points, 10 rebounds and a career-best three blocks for his third career double-double
• Eric Esposito (Langhorne, Pa./Conwell Egan) stuffed the stat sheet with 13 points, six boards, five assists, a game-high three steals and two rejections
• Those five dimes were one behind Jake McGonigle's (Ocean City, N.J./Wildwood Catholic) game-high six
• Malik Archer (Philadelphia, Pa./Mathematics,Civics & Science Charter School (Beaver County CC)) made it three Tigers in double-figures with 12 points
• Aamir Hurst (Philadelphia, Pa./Neumann Goretti) and Tazir Cantey (Lindenwold, N.J./Eastern Regional) both scored eight in their home debuts, with Jeremiah Alexander (Bensalem, Pa./Bensalem (Bloomfield College)) adding five
  • Evan Esposito (Langhorne, Pa./Neshaminy) also made his home debut
• Rick'Keem Mixson (Linden, N.J./St. Mary of the Assumption (Raritan Valley CC)) was second on HFU with seven rebounds

 
Inside the Box Score

• Holy Family limited CSI to just 27.1 percent shooting (19-of-70), including making just 3-of-26 3-point attempts (11.5 percent)
• The Tigers meanwhile made 13-of-31 (41.9) from beyond the arc
• HFU had double the amount of assists as the Dolphins, 17-8, while holding a 12-2 edge in fastbreak points

 
How it Happened 
First Half

• Holy Family scored the first nine, and 12 of the first 14, points to establish a first-half-high 12-point advantage when Esposito hit a jumper just 5:14 into the contest
• 12 straight points gave CSI its lone leads, 17-19 and 17-21, the latter coming 5:32 to play in the half
• The Tigers would respond with seven unanswered, beginning with back-to-back Archer 3-ponters, to take the lead for good less than a minute and a half later
• The Dolphins momentarily pulled within one, 23-24, but HFU closed the half with the final seven points, five of which were by Espostio as his 3-pointer made the score 31-23 entering the locker room

Second Half

• Robinson Jr.'s layup 12 seconds out of the break re-established a double-digit advantage, which only lasted 21 seconds as CSI got as closed as five twice, the second time at 30-35 with 17:50 to go
• The Dolphins were also within six, 35-41, three minutes later, but they could never make it a single-possession game
• Hurst's triple with 11:57 to play made it a double-digit game for good, 51-40, as he followed Alexander's 3-pointer with yet another to cap nine in a row with 9:18 left

 
Up Next
Holy Family returns to the road on Saturday, traveling to Queens for a 12 p.m. tip.