Box Score Mahwah, NJ:  The #1 seeded Ramapo College men's basketball team, advances to the 2012-2013 New Jersey Athletic Conference Championship game after defeating the Pioneers of William Paterson University, 83-58 tonight at the Bradley Center.  With the victory the Roadrunners improve to 22-4 overall.  Ramapo will face off with the Scarlet Raiders of Rutgers Newark, #2 seed, on Friday evening at 7pm at the Bradley Center.

Senior Stephon Treadwell led all scorers with 21 points shooting 9-12 from the floor while Elgin Brown collected 17 points and John Martens netted 13.  The Roadrunners combined hitting 31-57 (54%).  Treadwell pulled down a team high 13 rebounds and Patrick O'Connell dished out a team high five assists. 

Brown got the Roadrunners on the board to open the game and William Paterson's Terik Bridgeman netted a tip-in to tie the game for the first time of many, as the Roadrunners jumped out to a 45-36 halftime lead.  Over the first five plus minutes of the half, the two teams traded baskets, until a three-point goal from Anthony LoRusso, followed by a three-point basket from Garret Thiel, put the Roadrunners ahead, 18-13 with 13:43 on the clock.  Jaques Conceicao answered with a three-pointer of his own to cut the lead to two, 16-18.  With 11:08 to go in the half, Will Sanborn netted two points, sparking a 6-0 run, to push the Roadrunners ahead, 26-18, before Julio Rosario and Lance Brown hit back-to-back threes to close the gap, 24-26, with just under nine minutes to play.  LoRusso gave Ramapo a two-point advantage with two good free throws, before two straight baskets from the Pioneers tied the game for the sixth time, 28-28.  Treadwell gave the Roadrunners a five-point, 35-30 lead with four minutes left in the half, before a jump shot from Martens with 2:03 on the clock, put Ramapo ahead, 37-30.  A final three from Rick DeStefano put the Pioneers within four points, 33-37, with 1:44 to play, before the Roadrunners closed out the half out scoring the Pioneers, 8-3, for a 45-36 halftime advantage.  Brown led the Roadrunners with 12 first half points and seven rebounds and Martens collected 11 points, as the team shot 17-35 (49%) in the half.  Conceicao recorded 13 points for the Pioneers.  The team combined hitting 13-32 (41%).

Ramapo quickly jumped out to a double-digit lead at the start of the second half, after Treadwell sunk a jump shot to take a 47-36 advantage in the opening minute.  With 17:29 on the clock, Rosario netted a two-point goal to come within 12, 40-52, before Thiel sparked a 5-0 run, capped off with an and-one play from Brown, to give Ramapo a 57-40 lead with 15:19 to play.  Thomas Goubadia hit a jump shot for the Pioneers to come within 15, 42-57, with 14:45 to play, before Ramapo spent the next three and a half minutes climbing to a 20-point, 69-49 lead, with a two-point goal from Treadwell.  Martens scored two points with 9:31 to play to go up, 71-49, and the Roadrunners took a 26-point, 79-53 lead, at 3:28, when O'Connell drained a three-point goal.  Ramapo's biggest lead came at 1:43 when Treadwell laid the ball in to go ahead, 81-53.  The Roadrunners closed out the game with two free throws from LoRusso earning the 83-58 victory in Mahwah.   Treadwell recorded a double-double with 14 points and ten rebounds as the team went 14-22 (64%) from the floor.  James McLane led the Pioneers in the second half with five points.  The team combined hitting 10-28 (36%)

Conceicao led the Pioneers with 13 points and Brown and Rosario each netted ten as the team combined hitting 23-60 (38%) from the floor.  Conceicao pulled down nine rebounds and DeStefano assisted on three baskets.

With the loss, #4 seeded William Paterson, falls to 17-10 overall.