WOOSTER, Ohio (Nov. 20) – Spalding University used a late second half charge to upend Saint Vincent, 67-63, on the final day of the College of Wooster/Van Wie-Rotary Invitational.
 
The loss drops the Bearcats' record to 1-4 on the young season, while Spalding improves to 2-4.
 
Freshman Ethan Dunsey scored a career-high 25 points for SVC, while classmate Dominic Jennings added 14 points and sophomore Nelson Etuk 10. Rookie Diego Martinez grabbed a career-best 10 rebounds and sophomore Osyon Jones narrowly missed the double-double with 9 points and 8 assists.
 
Saint Vincent led for the duration of the first half. Dunsey's layup with 16:18 left in the half ignited an 11-4 run that was capped off with a Jones bucket with 12:35 left to give the Bearcats a 20-10 lead.
 
Spalding answered right back with a surge of its own, outscoring SVC 12-2 over the next six minutes to tie the game at 22-all with 6:40 left in the half. The teams would share buckets over the next few minutes, before a three-pointer by Jones gave SVC a 5-point advantage, 31-26, with 1:46 left in the half. Spalding scored the final bucket of the half, a layup with 41 seconds left, to send the game into the intermission with the Bearcats up 31-28.
 
Dunsey had 12 points, on 6-of-9 shooting from the field, over the first 20 minutes, while SVC limited Spalding to just 36 percent from the field (12-for-33) in the half.
 
Etuk made a foul shot and a layup in the two minutes of the second half to up SVC's lead to 34-28, but momentum would then go the way of Spalding, which countered with an 11-2 run to take a 39-36 lead with 14:30 left in regulation.

Two buckets from Jennings and a jumper from Dunsey gave the Bearcats back the lead 42-40, with 13:04 left, before Dunsey hit three-pointers on back-to-back trips to stake SVC out to a 7-point lead, 48-41, with 10:43 remaining.
 
The Bearcat lead would eventually swell to 8, 55-47, on another Dunsey three with 7:13 to go, but again Spalding stormed back with a 12-3 run over the next three minutes to take a 59-58 lead with just over five minutes left.
 
After a driving layup by Etuk briefly gave the advantage back to SVC, 60-59, with 4:03 left, neither team would score for more than two minutes, until a Spalding three-pointer off of an offensive rebound put them in front 62-60 with 1:30 remaining. A free throw from Etuk pulled the Bearcats to within one with 1:18 to go, but Spalding then put the game away from the foul line, making five freebies over the final 50 seconds to close out the win.
 
Saint Vincent shot 46 percent from the field (26-for-57) and went 7-for-15 from behind the arc, compared to Spalding's 44 percent mark from the field and 3-for-10 showing from distance. However, Spalding out-rebounded SVC 39-29 for the game, with scoring 17 points off of 14 Saint Vincent turnovers.
 
Spalding was led on the evening by Christian Stewart's 22-point, 12-rebound double-double.
 
Following the game, tournament officials named Dunsey to the Van Wie-Rotary Invitational All-Tournament Team after averaging 14.5 points and 7.0 rebounds over SVC's two games at Wooster.
 
The Bearcats will now have a week-long respite before returning to action on Saturday, Nov. 27, when they host Presidents' Athletic Conference foe Waynesburg at 3 p.m. in the Robert S. Carey Center.