NEWARK --- (www.YORKATHLETICS.com) York College men's basketball produced a trio of double-digits scorers to open play Friday evening at the John K. Adams Tip-Off Classic against the host Rutgers University-Newark Scarlet Raiders (1-0), but were unable to keep pace en route to falling 82-70 from The Golden Dome in Newark.

The Cardinals jumped ahead 59 seconds in with a pull-up jumper by Donald Hartley Jr. to break the scoring ice.  Rutgers-Newark responded with a 24-6 run to take a 16-point lead (24-8) with 9:35 showing on the first-half clock.  York chipped away at the early deficit to score 32 of the game's next 46 points to hold a brief 40-38 lead with 1:11 left.  Quran Dublin (10 points), Devine Chisholm (nine points) and Hartley Jr. (seven points) combined for 26 points to ignite the Cardinals during the scoring spree as the team shot 10-of-16 from the field during that stretch.  Quincy Rutherford ended York's 32-14 spurt with a three-pointer with 43 seconds remaining to push the Scarlet Raiders in front before taking a 42-40 lead into intermission.  

York got off to the slow start in the second-half, shooting 1-of-5 from the floor with three turnovers as Rutgers-Newark capitalized with a 12-4 run to build a 10-point lead (54-44) with 15:02 left.  The Cardinals made a push with an 11-3 spurt to pull within two (62-60) on a Dublin triple at the 6:59 mark.  Rutgers-Newark answered with a game-changing 20-5 run that started with a Quincy Rutherford three-pointer at 6:41 and ended with a driving layup by Abe Kromah to extend the lead to a game-high 17 points (82-65) with 56 seconds remaining.  

Chisholm led the way for York with a 19-point effort.  Dublin followed with 18 points (4-of-10 3FG), five rebounds and three steals while Hartley Jr. netted 16 points (5-of-10 FG).  Olawale Kila came off the bench to grab nine of his career-high 13 rebounds during the first-half as Guillermo Hernandez added 11 rebounds and two blocks.  Mert Zor contributed three steals.  

Rutherford paced Rutgers-Newark to victory with a game-high 25 points (4-of-8 3FG) and added nine rebounds and four assists to his stat line.  Kromah produced 18 points and three rebounds while Russsell Ayala's six assists captained the Scarlet Raider offense.

York outrebounded the Scarlet Raiders by eight (42-34) while Rutgers-Newark got at the Cardinals defensively by forcing 21 turnovers, and also held the edge in steals (11-7) and blocks (4-2).  Rutgers-Newark outplayed York in assists (20-7), points in the paint (30-14), fast-break points (15-11), bench scoring (16-10) and points off turnovers (17-14).  The Cardinals finished the evening shooting 43.1 percent from the field (22-of-51), 42.1 percent from three-point territory (8-of-19) and 60 percent from the free-throw line (18-of-30), compared to Rutgers-Newark knocking down 42.6 percent from the floor (29-of-68), 46.2 percent from beyond the arc (12-of-26) and 57.1 percent from the charity stripe (12-of-21).  

The Cardinals (1-0) return to the court on Saturday (Nov. 13) for the consolation game of the John K. Adams Tip-Off Classic against the Eureka College Red Devils (0-2) at 1 p.m. inside The Golden Dome.

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