JAMAICA, N.Y.  --- (www.YORKATHLETICS.com) York College men's basketball led from the opening jump Tuesday evening to produce a 83-70 wire-to-wire win in front of the home crowd against the SUNY Maritime Privateers (1-1) inside York College Gymnasium.  

Devine Chisholm, who was named the CUNYAC Player of the Week on Monday, scored the game's first-five points to put York ahead 53 seconds in.  Following a trey by Donald Hartley, Jr., Maritime answered with a 14-7 run to knot the game at 21-all with 12:57 showing on the first-half clock.  The Cardinals replied with a 9-0 run capped by Hartley, Jr.'s back-to-back buckets to push York's lead to nine (30-21). York went up by as many as 10 in the first half before the Privateers trimmed their deficit to five to trail 47-42 at intermission.

York scored six-straight points to open the second half to go up by 11 (53-42) on a Jaye Bookhart jumper.  Maritime would close the gap to five (65-60) with 8:12 remaining prior to York putting the game away with a 12-3 spurt to stretch the lead to a game-high 14 points (77-63) with 3:59 left. 

Hartley, Jr. scored a career-high 19 points to go with five assists, four steals and four rebounds in leading three other Cardinals in double-digit scoring.  Chisholm followed with 18 points (3-of-6 3FG), eight rebounds, seven assists (one turnover) and two steals in 40 minutes of action while Bookhart went for 15 points (7-of-11 FG) and four assists.  Mambe Koureissi added 14 points, 10 rebounds, two blocks and one steal.  Akil Vaughn also controlled the paint with three blocks and eight rebounds to go with nine points.

Brendan McGovern knocked down 5-of-15 from deep to lead Maritime with 18 points. 

York shot 48.5 percent from the field (33-of-68), 41.2 percent from three-point range (7-of-17) and 58.8 percent from the free-throw line (10-of-17) compared to Maritime hitting 37.5 percent from the floor (27-of-72), 39.4 percent from three-point range (13-of-33) and 37.5 percent from the charity stripe (3-of-8).  The Cardinals won the boards battle, 48-38, scoring 19 second-chance points off 14 offensive rebounds. York outscored Maritime 15-3 on the fast break and also converted 11 Privateer miscues into 16 points.  Both teams drew even in steals (8-8) while the Cardinals finished with a 6-4 edge in blocks as Maritime had 21 assists to York's 20.  

The Cardinals (1-1) open its road schedule Saturday (Nov. 16) with a non-conference matchup in Castine, Maine against the Marine Maritime Academy Mariners (0-0) at 1 p.m. inside Smith Gymnasium.

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