Box Score GAMBIER, Ohio  – Wednesday night featured a conglomerate of sizable figures battling it out for post supremacy. The Kenyon College men's basketball team found themselves on the winning end of that bout, led by sophomore center Brien Comey. Comey had a career day in all categories and was a key part of a team effort that prevented Oberlin College's main offensive threats from having a big day. Behind stout defense and contributions up and down the roster, Kenyon defeated the Yeomen 72-64 to keep them in the top half of the North Coast Athletic Conference standings.

From the opening tip, all eyes were on the six-foot, nine-inch sophomore center from Oberlin, Randy Ollie. A rotation of Comey, John Bray, and Brian Lebowitz were called upon early to quell Ollie as a scoring threat. Comey stood out among the rest and was a chief reason why Ollie was held to just two points in the first half. Meanwhile, the Kenyon sophomore went off for nine points in 12 minutes on the floor, matching his previous career high before halftime. Comey finished with a game-high 19 points on 7-of-14 shooting from the field and went a perfect 5-for-5 from the charity stripe.

Lebowitz provided a second entertaining matchup that developed as the game went on. He and Oberlin's Matthew Walker went toe-to-toe for much of the game with each having their share of successes. Matthew played well in the opening minutes of the second half, helping the Yeomen (5-13, 2-9 NCAC) build a five-point lead, their largest of the game. However, Lebowitz began shining brighter by shooting 50 percent from the field and scoring eight of his 12 points in the second half. He also blocked three Oberlin shot attempts and dished out five assists.

Walker tied teammate Geoff Simpson for the team lead with 10 points on 4-of-6 shooting from the field and added four rebounds. Eight of Simpson's 10 points came from the free throw line while he struggled from field goal range, hitting just one of his eight attempts.

Bray was also in on the mix of Lords ruling the painted area. While he played just 14 minutes off of the bench, he accounted for six points on a 3-for-5 shooting night from the field while adding a block. Between Bray and Comey, Ollie scored just four points total, though collected nine rebounds and four blocked shots.

Kenyon (8-9, 5-5 NCAC) had remnants of déjà vu of its previous meeting with Oberlin when it saw a seven-point lead turn into a one-point halftime shortage. Down 19-13 midway through the first half, Zach Moo Young started a six-point turnaround, cashing in off of a feed by Emmanuel Lewis. Lewis then went on to score the next four points with layups in back-to-back possessions to tie the game. While the Yeomen held the lead for the rest of the half and for the first nine minutes of the second, Kenyon began wearing down Oberlin's interior defense and whittled away to take back the lead for good.

Tim Connolly resurfaced for the Lords after a career-high 18 points versus Wittenberg last week and hit a big three-point shot to tie the game, 49-49, signaling the Lords' comeback. After both teams wrestled for the lead over the next three possessions, Connolly came back and nailed another deep ball from the right wing to help Kenyon jump out to a four-point lead, 58-54. Lebowitz then earned a three-point play by draining a layup and then hitting the complimentary free throw shot stemming from a foul, blowing the lead up to seven points. The lead grew to as many as nine, more than enough to ride on to a victory.

Not only did Kenyon keep Oberlin's big men at bay, but it also kept the team to just a 15.4 percent three-point shooting mark for the game. While the Yeomen dominated the free throw battle, hitting 24-of-28 trips to the stripe, Kenyon boasted a victory for rebounds by holding a plus-14 margin over their guests. That margin tied for the widest margin they held over an opponent this season which they accomplished twice.

Connolly went 3-for-4 from three-point land, accounting for five of Kenyon's three-balls and a 50 percent success rate from long range. He ended the night with 13 points.

The Lords have a rough a patch of road games coming after being forced to reschedule their earlier appointment at Hiram College. Kenyon will head to Allegheny College this Saturday (1 p.m.) to begin their three-game adventure on the road. The following the day, the Lords will travel to Hiram for a 2 p.m. tipoff. Wednesday will mark the end of the road trip with the toughest leg resting in Wooster, Ohio where the nationally ranked Fighting Scots will host the Lords on February 5.