Box Score RICHMOND, Ind. – The Kenyon College men's basketball team returned to action for the first time in more than two weeks and put together a balanced scoring attack that led to a Sunday afternoon 74-68 non-conference victory over the host Earlham College Quakers.

Five Kenyon players, led by junior Julian Pavlin, reached double-digit scoring marks. Pavlin directed a sustained march to the free throw line for the Lords and wrapped up the game with a team-best 15 points. He was 6-of-7 at the line, where the Kenyon men ended up sinking a season-best 23 shots in 28 attempts (82.1 percent). Before entering the game, the Lords were shooting 64.7 percent at the line.

Kenyon sophomore Cooper Handelsman was 6-of-8 at the line late in the game and finished with 10 points and three steals. Fellow sophomore John Bray dropped in 14 points, junior Ikenna Nwadibia added 13, and sophomore Jonathan Amador rounded out the Lords' double-digit scorers with a dozen points.

 Nwadibia's stat line also included a team-best nine rebounds. Junior Brian Lebowitz struggled in the scoring department, but contributed to the Lords' cause with eight rebounds. He was also one of five Kenyon players that had two or more steals. As a team, Kenyon came up with 13 steals and forced Earlham into 22 turnovers, resulting in 21 points at the other end of the floor for the Lords.

Kenyon (6-5) opened up an early lead and within the game's first nine minutes the Lords had one of their largest leads at nine points (22-13). Earlham charged back, however, and put together an 11-0 run that gave the Quakers a 24-22 advantage with 9:12 left in the first half. From that point, neither team held more than a four-point lead and Kenyon went into the intermission with a 38-34 lead.

 The Lords pushed their lead out to eight early in the second half and maintained an advantage for nearly the entire second half. Earlham (1-10) did put a final scare into Kenyon by taking a 58-57 lead with 4:13 remaining, but the Lords sank 14 of their final 17 free throw attempts to seal the deal. It was during that stretch run that Handelsman went 6-of-8 at the line.