WAYNESBURG, Pa. – The Kenyon men's basketball team (1-11) earned its first win of the season on Thursday night as it defeated Waynesburg University 88-73 at Rudy Marisa Fieldhouse.
 
Carter Powell scored a game-high 21 points while Ugnius Zilinskas tallied 17 points. Both of those marks were also career-bests.  Additionally, freshmen Elijah Davis and Christian Watanabe contributed 16 and 10 points, respectively. As a team, the Lords shot 40 percent from three-point range and a season-best 46.3 percent from the field.
 
Kenyon's three-point shooting paired with Waynesburg's poor handling of the basketball allowed the Lords to get ahead midway through the first half and never look back.
 
With the score knotted up at 2-2 almost five minutes in, back-to-back three-balls from Powell and Davis pushed Kenyon ahead, 8-2.
 
The two teams tussled a bit after that before a Watanabe and-one conversion at 12:45 moved Kenyon's lead to 13-7. Over the remainder of the first stanza, Waynesburg was never able to pull the deficit to within a single possession.
 
That was in large part due to the Yellow Jackets' turnover woes. At the end of the half, the home team had as many turnovers (13) as made shots.
 
Powell paced the Lords with 13 first-half points while Zilinskas added 12. Those two also combined to hit 4-for-5 from three-point range and helped the team close the half with a 7-0 run to take a 43-30 lead into the locker room.
 
In the second half, the Lords maintained their double-digit lead and extended it to as many as 21 points. That came after Powell scored a layup at 12:31 to push the score to 63-42.
 
Kenyon's offense was efficient again hitting half of its 32 attempts from the field.
 
The Lords will try and notch win number two on Saturday when they host Allegheny College at 4 p.m. in an NCAC contest at Tomsich Arena.