EASTON, Pa. – Junior Neal Quinn notched his sixth double-double of the season Monday night, but the Lafayette College men's basketball team could not match up against Colgate, falling 72-61 inside Kirby Sports Center.
 
Quinn scored in double-figures for the 13^th-straight contest with a team-high 15 points and matched his career high with 13 rebounds. He also dished out seven assists and recorded three denials.
 
Colgate got off to a fast start, opening up a 10-point lead by the game's first media timeout. The Leopards began to chip away and cut it to just a three-point game at the 7:44 in the first mark when senior Tyrone Perry connected on a 3-pointer.
 
The visitors would outscore Lafayette 10-2 over the half's final seven minutes to take an eight-point lead into the break.
 
Both sides came out firing in the second half, combining for points on the first six possessions of the frame. Colgate would reach its largest lead of the night at the 15:08 mark at 50-33. The Leopards would show life when junior Leo O'Boyle and freshman CJ Fulton hit back-to-back 3-pointers to make it an 11-point game with under 13 minutes left.
 
Sophomore Jon Brantley would make it a single-digit game when he hit a fall-away 3-pointer in the corner to make it 54-45 with nine minutes to play, but the Raiders would answer with a 3-pointer of their own to control the momentum.
 
Lafayette could not pull within single-digits for the remainder of the game, but did get it within 10 points again when Perry hit sophomore Kyle Jenkins for a transition alley-oop.
 
O'Boyle and Jenkins would each reach double-figures with 13 and 12 points, respectively, while Jenkins also grabbed six rebounds and dished out three assists.
 
Colgate's Jack Ferguson scored a game-high 19 points, including going 9-of-9 from the free-throw line while three other teammates joined him in double-figures.
 
Lafayette stays right at Kirby Sports Center for the remainder of the week, hosting American on Wednesday at 7 p.m. before Bucknell comes to College Hill on Saturday.
 
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