MEADVILLE, Pa. – The Kenyon College men's basketball team got a career-best output from junior Bennett Grigull and a season-best from senior Ethan Shapiro, but their efforts Wednesday night weren't enough to counter those of Allegheny College freshman Jordan Rawls, who piled up 30 points, eight rebounds and five assists while leading the host Gators to a 90-73 win against the Lords.

Grigull ended up with 21 points, most of it chalked up at the free throw line, where he went 11-of-12. Shapiro hit a pair of three-pointers and finished 14 points. Those two were the only two to reach double-digit scoring marks for Kenyon, which fell to 4-14 overall and 3-8 in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC). Sophomore Matt Shifrin and freshman Ben Stern just missed the mark, scoring nine points apiece.

At the other end of the floor, Rawls, a 6-6 forward, went 12-of-17 from the floor, 3-of-6 from three-point territory and 3-of-3 at the free throw line. He averaged 13.8 points and 6.4 rebounds entering the game and tallied 20 points and one rebound in an 81-69 loss at Kenyon earlier this season.

Rawls was one of five Allegheny players to ring up a double-digit scoring mark as the Gators shot 51.5 percent overall (34-of-66) and 41.4 percent from three-point range (12-of-29). Evan Zabriski notched 18 points, Brendan O'Toole added 15 and both Billy Urso and Jamison Nee chipped in with 12 for Allegheny, which improved to 6-12 overall 3-8 in the NCAC.

Outside of the first few minutes of the game, Kenyon did not hold a lead. Throughout the first half, however, the Lords never trailed by more than eight points. Three-pointers from Shifrin and Phillip Crampton, combined with a layup from Grigull, got the Kenyon men back to within one point, but O'Toole hit the final basket of the half to give Allegheny a 39-36 advantage at the break.

Things started to unravel for Kenyon in the second half. The Gators returned to the floor and ripped off a 15-2 run to move ahead 54-38 with 16:20 still showing on the clock. During those few game-changing minutes, Rawls scored 11 of the Gators' 15 points. He did so by converting a three-point play, followed by a pair of three-point buckets and then a layup.

Rawls ended up scoring 17 of his 30 points in the second half and the Lords never got closer than 14 points the rest of the way. The lead got as big as 28 points before Kenyon closed things out with a 14-3 run that began and concluded with three-pointers from Stern.

The Lords have another long trip ahead of them, as they head to Crawfordsville, Indiana on Saturday to battle with the Wabash College Little Giants at 3 p.m.