BALTIMORE – Following a combined 44-point performance in Saturday's 77-75 victory, senior co-captain Justin Jaworski and sophomore Leo O'Boyle again carried the Lafayette men's basketball team on Sunday in the rematch, scoring 22 and 19 respectively in a 72-70 victory at Reitz Arena in Baltimore, Md.
 
Closing out the weekend sweep and moving the win streak to five games for the Maroon and White, Lafayette was in control for the majority of the game, leading by five at the halftime break and for more than 27 minutes in the contest overall. Jaworski and O'Boyle combined to go 9-for-16 from three-point range on the night (56.3%) and the Leopards went 11-for-25 from distance as a unit (44.0%) and 27-for-57 overall from the field (47.4%)
 
Freshman Kyle Jenkins and sophomore Neal Quinn joined Jaworski and O'Boyle in the double-digit scoring column with 11 and 10 points each. Quinn was impactful all over the floor, dishing out five assist and adding seven rebounds, with four on the offensive end.
 
A two-point game with less than two minutes to play, Lafayette kept that lead to the final possession as Loyola had a chance to tie or take the lead with seven seconds on the clock. Preseason All-League selection Santi Aldama's left-wing triple attempt at the buzzer fell just short and found its way out of bounds before Lafayette inbounded and closed it out.
 
The win moves the Leopards to 5-1 overall this season, while Loyola drops to 0-2 after its first weekend of competition.
 
Aldama and O'Boyle traded six-point spurts to open the game before a 6-0 run from the home side helped the Greyhounds to a 13-9 edge with 11:44 remaining in the opening half. Loyola added another pair before a 10-0 run capped by a jumper from Quinn from the foul line swung it the Leopards' way, leading 19-15 at 8:28 on the clock.
 
Aldama's layup at 7:22 paused the run at 12 straight, but another 7-2 spurt pushed the Leopard lead to double digits at 29-19 with 3:19 to play in the half. Loyola closed the gap a bit before the break as a Casmir Ochiaka put-back at the buzzer trimmed the lead to five, 35-30, into intermission.
 
Loyola erased the deficit within three minutes before Jaworski's three in transition stopped the bleeding at 16:30 to make it 40-37. Then, back-to-back triples from O'Boyle swung the momentum back Lafayette's way, forcing a timeout at the 13:02 mark with the Leopards' lead at eight, 52-44.
 
Lafayette kept Loyola at that six-to-eight-point margin throughout the next five minutes before Aldama's foul-line jumper at 7:12 made it a five-point game, 59-54, and Golden Dike's drive at 3:30 put it at four into the home stretch, 66-62, with 3:30 remaining. Loyola kept coming, making it a two-point game at 2:16 on an Aldama dunk off a broken play, forcing a Lafayette timeout at 66-64.
 
The teams traded buckets with less than a minute to go before Quinn's fifth assist found Stephens for an above-the-rim finish at 21 seconds left to make it 72-68. Wade Jackson's layup pulled Loyola within a bucket, but Aldama's left-wing three try to win it late fell short as Lafayette closed out a 72-70 final.
 
The Leopards can stay home for a while now, hosting a pair of home games next weekend with Boston U. Saturday is set for 4 p.m., while Sunday will begin at 6 p.m.