Canton, NY – Jordan Stewart led four players in double figures finishing with a season-high 18 points on just eight shot attempts as the SUNY Canton men's basketball team earned an 80-73 win v. Paul Smith's College on Tuesday evening in the Roos House.
 
Both teams struggled shooting early combining to go 8-for-34 from the field but the Roos used a key 10-2 run near the end of the first half to open up a 42-31 lead and took a 42-35 lead into intermission.
 
Brandon Adkisson led Canton with 10 points, while Victor Bakre, Danny Santana and Adrian Williams posted seven points each. Shane Stone led all players with 13 points for the Bobcats.
 
The Roos extended their lead to as many as 15 following a pair of Stewart free throws with 7:33 remaining as they held off any Bobcat comeback bid pulling away for the 80-73 win.  
Stewart paced Canton with 18 points hitting nine of his 10 free-throw attempts and four of his eight attempts from the field including a 3-for-4 effort on two-pointers in just 18 minutes. Bakre added 14 points, while Adkisson tallied a season-best 12 points and five assists. Ibu Smith chipped in 10 points and eight rebounds off the bench, Santana added nine points and Williams totaled eight points and a team-high nine boards.
 
Shane Stone led Paul Smith's with a game-high 22 points, while Adam Seguin and Max Peguero added 17 and 13 points, respectively. SUNY Canton turned 22 Bobcat turnovers into 31 points and the Roo reserves outscored Paul Smith's bench, 42-12.  
The men's basketball team is back in action on Saturday when it hosts The Sage Colleges at 3 p.m. in the Roos House. Stay up to date with the latest news directly from the SUNY Canton Athletics department by "liking" us on Facebook and "following" our Twitter, Instagram and YouTube accounts.
 

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SUNY Canton is Northern New York's premier college for career-driven bachelor's degrees, associate degrees and professional certificate programs. The college delivers quality hands-on programs in engineering technology, health, management and public service and recently received number one rankings in library resources, library services and tutoring services in the SUNY Student Opinion Survey. The college's faculty members are noted for their professional real-world experience in addition to outstanding academic credentials. SUNY Canton OnLine offers hundreds of flexible and convenient courses as well as 13 exclusively online degrees. The college's 15 athletic teams compete at the NCAA Division III level and are joining the North Atlantic Conference beginning in the 2018-19 academic year.