ORANGEBURG, N.Y. - Sophomore Nick Davidson (Lumberton, N.J.) netted a last second bucket just before the buzzer to drive the Bears past Dominican College, 78-76 Tuesday evening at the Hennessy Center in Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) North Division play.

Bloomfield won their fifth straight game and improved to 9-10 on the season with an 8-4 mark in league play as they sit atop the North Division standings. The Chargers dropped to 6-13 overall and 5-5 in conference action.

Davidson poured in a team-high 21 points, going 6-for-11 from the field and 8-for-10 from the line. Classmate Ignacio Diez (Madrid, Spain) notched his second double-double of the season with 13 points (3-6 FG, 1-2 3-FG, 6-6 FT) and 12 boards. Claude Blue (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Rakwan Kelly (Newark, N.J.) each registered 10 points for the Bears. Blue added six boards, three assists, three blocks and a steal while Kelly grabbed seven rebounds to go along with two steals and an assist. Freshman, Safee Abdus-Sabur (Newark, N.J.) chipped in nine points off the bench and snagged five boards.
 
Sean O'Reilly led Dominican with a game-high 23 points, while Kristopher Hargraves added 14.
 
Diez opened the game with the Bears first six points as the teams traded buckets across a seven-minute span until Bloomfield took a 12-11 lead. The visitors scored their next ten points from the line and bolstered their largest advantage of the half after an Ahmid Williams (Monroe, N.J.) 3-pointer put them up 10 (25-15) with 8:28 remaining in the opening half. The Chargers whittled their deficit down to two, 28-26, powered by eight consecutive points from O'Reilly. Hargraves sank two free throws to close out scoring for the half and put the home team up 39-37 as the squads headed into the break.
 
Blue quickly erased the Chargers advantage with back-to-back buckets to start the second half but Dominican answered with a 3-pointer to reclaim the lead. Davidson put the Bears on top, 47-46, at the 16:11 minute mark but two technical free throws gave the home team the advantage right back.   
 
The margin would hover between six and one over the next seven-plus minutes with neither team able to pull away from the other. Down by five with 4:36 on the clock, Bloomfield went on a 6-0 run fueled by consecutive buckets from sophomore, Juan Brown (Annapolis, M.D.) and posted a 70-69 edge. But Dominican would not go away as free throws from each team knotted the score at 72-72 with just over two minutes to go.
The Chargers seized control when Hargraves buried a layup down low but Diez respond with a trip to the line and netted two free throws to even the score at 74 all. After a Dominican time out with forty seconds on the clock the home team forced a Bloomfield foul and went ahead by two on the made opportunities from the line. Diez returned the favor on the Bears side of the ball as he drew a foul and sank two free throws to even the match at 76-76 with 15 seconds to go. With five tics on the clock, Hargraves turned the ball over out of bounds setting up the last second heroics for Bloomfield. Coming out of a Bears timeout, Brown drove the ball to the basket for the win and Davidson found himself in position for the put back before time expired.  
 
Dominican outshot Bloomfield, 44.8 percent (26-58) to 42.1 percent (24-57), and drained 42.1 percent (8-19) to 30.0 percent (3-10) from beyond the arc. The Bears made up the difference as they shot better at the line, 75 percent (27-36) to 66.7 percent (16-24) and won the glass (42-34), but the teams were deadlocked in the paint, 30-30 and in turnovers, 11-11.
 
The Bears sit in sole possession of first place in the CACC North Division heading into the ESPN3 College Basketball Game of the Week Saturday afternoon. Bloomfield, winners of four of their last five games by two points or less, get set to take on the Rams on their 'Road Trip to Philly' at 4:00 pm LIVE on ESPN3. Philly U enters the contest riding their own 7-game win streak in what is sure to be an exciting battle.
 
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