NORTON, MA- The Wheaton College men's basketball team yielded just five second-half field goals to Connecticut College but saw the Camels shoot 20-of-25 from the charity stripe during their 67-53 victory over the Lyons on Tuesday evening in Emerson Gymnasium. Wheaton slipped to 3-3 after winning four of the prior five meetings, while the Camels are 3-4.

Sophomore Anthony Weeks (Fitchburg, MA/Worcester Academy) led Wheaton with 11 points, hitting 6-of-8 free-throw tries, while junior Anthony Coppola (Watertown, MA/Watertown) had 10, moving into seventh in program history with 1,089 in his career. Freshman Brian Johnson (Roxbury, MA/Brimmer and May School) snagged six rebounds.

Sophomore Demetrius Porter (Virginia Beach, VA/Salisbury School) notched 19 points and six rebounds for Connecticut College, while junior Dean Lampe (Hamilton, MA/Brooks School) added 13 points and six caroms. Sophomore Brian Mahoney (Quincy, MA/Boston College) turned in 12 points, while senior Shavar Bernier (Dover, NH/Bridgton Academy) contributed 10 points, five boards and four assists.

The Camels led by as many as 14 points midway through the second half before Lyon sophomore Bruno Naylor (Los Angeles, CA/Northfield Mount Hermon School) hit consecutive hoops, making it 49-42 with 7:23 remaining. Wheaton came within seven points on four other occasions but no closer despite holding the visitors to 5-of-12 shooting in the second stanza, including 1-of-6 from three-point range after the Camels shot 8-of-12 from deep in the first period. However, Connecticut College scored 20 of its 31 second-half points on free throws.

Porter scored the first six points of the game by 17:03 of the first stanza, and the Camels made it 16-8 before the Lyons rallied. A 10-0 run that took 3:03 to elapse put the hosts ahead by an 18-16 count with 7:48 left, as Weeks scored the final five points. However, Connecticut College knocked down three-pointers on four of its next five possessions to grab a 28-18 advantage by 4:46, with Mahoney hitting the first and last treys during the 12-0 run.

Wheaton countered with five straight points, as a pair of Weeks free throws at 3:46 made it 28-23, but the visitors carried a 36-26 advantage into halftime. The Lyons committed only seven turnovers in the opening half while shooting 8-of-10 from the charity stripe and holding the Camels without a free-throw try, but the visitors shot 51.9 percent.

Coppola hit a three at 19:20 of the second half to bring the Lyons within 36-29 before a low-scoring next four-plus minutes ensued, with the Camels leading 41-29 by 14:54. Freshman P.J. Walters (Hempstead, NY/Saint Dominic) broke Wheaton's scoreless drought with a lay-up at 13:48 and added two free throws to make it 41-33 at 13:18, but the Camels soon led by 14.

Wheaton begins a five-game stretch during which it takes on four 2009 NCAA Tournament qualifiers when it travels to Elms College on Thursday for a 7:00 p.m. contest.