Box Score BRISTOL, R.I.--Sophomore Mike Gelineau notched his first career double-double with 22 points and a career-high 10 rebounds to lead all players in both categories to lead the Western New England men's basketball team to a 66-44 thumping of host Roger Williams in Commonwealth Coast Conference action at the RWU Campus Recreation Center on Thursday evening. This game was rescheduled from Wednesday due to the winter storm affecting the region.

The visiting Golden Bears won their third consecutive game to improve to 5-2 on the road this season. With the win, WNE draws even with the Hawks--who have lost three in a row--at 5-6 in the CCC standings for a fifth-place tie. Both teams are also 7-11 overall.

Senior Musa Elsir (5 rebounds) added 15 points and graduate student Nick DeFeo (5 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals) had 12 for the Golden Bears, who held the RWU offense to a .259 shooting percentage from the field and outrebounded the Hawks, 52-43.

Jaylen Jennings was the only Hawk in double-digits with 12 points and he also had a team-leading eight rebounds.

Roger Williams opened the game with a 5-0 lead, thanks to a layup by Jennings and a three-pointer by Josh McCourt (5 points). However, the Golden Bears answered with seven straight points, capped by an Elsir trey to put WNE up by two.

Both teams traded baskets back and forth before junior Zack Askew (8 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 blocked shots) converted a traditional three-point play to give the Golden Bears a 12-10 lead. His points would help jump-start a 13-2 run to build WNE's advantage to ten.

The Hawks managed to cut into the deficit, with McCourt laying in a shot to make it a 22-27 game, with 1 minute and 44 seconds left in the half, but the Golden Bears closed out the period with six straight points to go into halftime up 33-22.

In the second half, WNE maintained its double-digit advantage for most of the period. The Hawks briefly brought the game back within single digits, with a three-pointer by Conor O'Brien pulling RWU within eight (34-42) with 14:37 to play.

Yet the Golden Bears countered with eight straight points in just over a minute to double their advantage. From there, the Hawks never came closer than 12 with WNE cruising to its biggest margin of victory on the road since crushing New England College, 88-58, on Feb. 6, 2010.

Western New England returns home to the Alumni Healthful Living Center on Saturday against CCC foe Curry, starting at 3 p.m. The game is part of festivities for the 16th annual Girls & Women in Sports Day hosted by the Golden Bears. On the same afternoon, Roger Williams heads to Nichols in Dudley, Mass.

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(Editor's note: The Roger Williams University Athletic Communications Office contributed to this game recap.)