Box Score BEVERLY, Mass.--Sophomore Mike Gelineau led four Golden Bears in double figures with a game-high 21 points, but Endicott College prevailed in a three-point display by both teams in an 89-77 victory over Western New England University on Saturday at the MacDonald Gymnasium. The visiting Golden Bears head into next week's Commonwealth Coast Conference Men's Basketball Championship Tournament with an 8-17 overall record and 6-12 in the CCC standings, while the Gulls finish the regular season at 20-5 and 16-2 for second place while riding an 11-game win streak.

Besides Gelineau, senior co-captain Musa Elsir scored 16 points and graduate co-captain Nick DeFeo had 14 and junior Zack Askew chipped in 10 for Western New England which shot a respectable 47.4 percent (27-57) from the field. Askew was two rebounds shy of a double-double.

Endicott fared slightly better shooting the basketball with a .524 percentage (33-63) as sophomore Kamahl Walker led a balanced offense with 20 points and four assists. John Henault added 15 and sophomore Drew Sawyer, senior Andre Makris, sophomore Max Motroni all contributed 11.

The teams combined for 26 three-pointers with Endicott making a season-high 15 of 30 attempts for 50.0 percent and WNE hitting on 11 for 24 at 45.8. The Gulls are the conference's second-leading three-point shooting team, including eight of which came in the second half.

Western New England committed a second-season-low six turnovers and outscored the Gulls in the paint, 24-16. Endicott, however, won the glass (34-27 rebounds) and had a stronger bench with 46 points to 14 for WNE.

Western New England trailed 41-35 at halftime but in the second found its shooting stroke by converting 8-of-14 three-point attempts including three for both Elsir and DeFeo.

Two free throws by junior Luis Agrait (4 assists) and a DeFeo trey put WNE in front 63-59 after falling behind by eight points, 43-35, to begin the second half.

The Gulls were able to overcome a four-point deficit with 12 minutes and 3 seconds remaining to build a lead as large as 14 points at the 6:17 mark. During a 6:38 stretch, Endicott orchestrated an 18-0 run that featured three-point baskets by three different players including two by Motroni and one apiece by Makris and Sawyer.

Walker drained two of his three three-point jumpers down the stretch to help maintain Endicott's double-digit lead for the final 7:29.

Western New England will next play on Tuesday (7 p.m.) in the CCC Quarterfinals at....Endicott.

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(Editor's note: Endicott Sports Information contributed to this game recap.)