PURCHASE, N.Y. –The York College men's basketball team had its best shooting performance of the young season en route to defeating Purchase College, 80-68, in a non-conference road contest Wednesday night.
 
York (4-2) shot 54.5 percent from the field, by a far its highest mark of the year, including going 10-of-23 from three-point range (43.5%) in the victory.  Omar St. John and Ryan St. John each connected on four three-pointers to lead the Cardinals' shooting barrage.  Omar finished with a team-high 18 points, while adding six boards, and Ryan scored 16 points.
 
Jaron Williams chipped in a double-double (13 points and ten rebounds) and Cyril Reid added ten points and six boards. Point guard Du'Quan Lawson distributed the ball well once again, finishing with seven assists.
 
Purchase (0-7) had four players reach double figures in points, led by Michael Pelham and Creig Graves with 16 points each.
 
Despite the 12-point margin of victory, it was a close game for most of the way.  The two teams went into halftime knotted up at 31-31.  The Cardinals saw an eight-point lead dwindle away with Pelham tying the score up just before halftime with a three-pointer.
 
York held a one or two-possession lead for most of the second half until they finally began to pull away with around 11 minutes to go.  A 7-2 York run, with all seven points coming from Ryan St. John, helped push York's lead to 11 points (60-49) with 9:02 to go.  The Cardinals would go up by as many as 15 points from there and never let Purchase get closer than eight the rest of the way.
 
The Cardinals will look to keep up its winning ways when they return to action on Friday night.  York visits CUNYAC-rival City College at 8 p.m.