ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. – The HFU men's basketball team erased a double-digit deficit, taking a lead midway through the second half before running out of gas in a 69-78 loss at Molloy on Wednesday night. 
 
Individual Highlights

• Tazir Cantey (Lindenwold, N.J./Eastern Regional) led all players with a season-high 23 points in 24 minutes off the bench
• Phil Brown Jr. (Hillside, N.J./Hudson Catholic (District of Columbia)) also set a new season-best, scoring 16 on 7-of-9 shooting
• David Robinson Jr. (Philadelphia, Pa./Chestnut Hill Academy) recorded his sixth double-double of the year, pulling down a game-high 12 rebounds and adding 12 points
  • He also led the Tigers with two blocks
• Nate Conyer (Pemberton, N.J./BCIT Medford Tech) and Aamir Hurst (Philadelphia, Pa./Neumann Goretti) matched Cantey and Robinson Jr. with a team-high two steals
• Rick'Keem Mixson (Linden, N.J./St. Mary of the Assumption (Raritan Valley CC)) paced Holy Family with four assists

 
 
Inside the Box Score

• The Tigers held a 36-24 edge in points in the paint, but the Lions made more than double the amount of 3-pointers, 9-4

 
How it Happened 
First Half

• Holy Family built its largest advantage of 7-4 when Brown Jr. made a layup 3:44 in
• Molloy scored the next six points, beginning a 12-5 flurry to go up 12-18 midway through the period
• Conyer's 3-pointer got the Tigers as close as 17-18 with 8:45 showing
• The Lions' first half lead reached as high as 31-40 in the final minute, but Cantey closed the first half scoring for a 33-40 score-line entering the locker room

 
Second Half

• Molloy scored the first four points of the second to establish the first double-digit advantage, 33-44, 1:09 out of the locker room
• HFU would hold the Lions scoreless for the next 5:04 though, scoring 11 unanswered with five each from Brown Jr. and Hurst to knot the score on a Hurst triple with 14:13 remaining
• The Tigers then took their first lead since the opening minutes, 49-48, when Cantey completed a 16-4 surge with 11:34 left
• Brown Jr.'s three-point play 43 seconds after also put Holy Family ahead by one, 52-51
• HFU would be held scoreless for nearly four and a half minutes though, allowing Molloy to re-establish a nine-point advantage, 52-61, with just 6:27 to go as the Tigers could never make it a two-possession contest again

 
Up Next
Holy Family plays at home for the first time in on over a month on Saturday, hosting Southern Connecticut State at 3 p.m.