NEW CONCORD, Ohio – Six Kenyon College players recorded double-digit scoring totals Sunday and Cooper Handelsman set a program record for assists as the Lords basketball team rolled to a 91-75 non-conference win over the host Muskingum College Muskies. The win was the first for the Lords (1-3) this season.

Junior guard Tim Connolly led scoring attack for Kenyon with a career-high 26 points. He was 6-of-10 from the floor including a 3-of-6 showing from long range. He added an 11-of-12 performance from the line and surpassed his previous career-best point total of 24 set back in the season-opener at Westminster.

Junior center Brien Comey got his shooting touch back and dropped in 15 points for Kenyon. He was 5-of-5 at the free throw line, where the Lords, as a team, were 31-of-38 (81.6 percent). Handelsman scored 14 points, Jonathan Amador had 11, and both John Bray and Alexander Powell added 10. Additionally, Handelsman racked up a single-game Kenyon record 13 assists, topping the previous record of 12 set by Shaka Smart in the during the 1998-99 season.

The Lords didn't just shoot well from the line, they were 25-of-48 (52.1 percent) from the floor and 10-of-22 (45.5 percent) from three-point range. Powell matched Connolly's total of three three-pointers, while Amador and Dan Voigt each added a pair of triples.

At the beginning of the game, Muskingum took charge by carving out leads of 6-0 and 8-3. The Lords did not take long to respond. Back-to-back three-pointers from Connolly and Powell tied the game up at 12-12 with 14:33 showing on the clock. Powell then sank another three-pointer at the 12:08 mark to give Kenyon its first lead of the game. It was a lead the Lords would never relinquish.

Kenyon went up by as many as 11 points before heading into the break with a 41-31 lead.

In the second half, the Lords pushed their advantage out to as many as 20 points on two different occasions. Muskingum (1-2) narrowed its deficit down to eight points with a little more than four minutes to play, but an 11-2 Kenyon run put the game away.

The Lords now have a lengthy break and will play next on December 3 at home versus Oberlin College.