BRIDGEWATER, Va. - The Bridgewater College men's basketball team knocked off Washington and Lee 91-83 on Tuesday night in the program's home opener.

The Basics 
 
Final Score: Bridgewater 91, Washington and Lee 83
Records: Bridgewater 2-1 (1-0 ODAC); Washington and Lee 2-1 (0-1 ODAC)
 
How it Happened 

• BC opened the game as Will Dunlap swung it around the perimeter to Alec Topper and the senior knocked down a three to put BC in front. On brand Robert DiSibio responded for WLU with a trifecta of his own to level the game. A pair of triples from Jordan Cooper and Aaron Oates pushed the Eagles advantage to 9-3 before a free throw from DiSibio got the Generals back on the board. A long ball from RK Law and a topper layup pushed the gap to 14-4 before the Generals burned a timeout. WLU finally ended their field goal drought of over five minutes, but three consecutive three pointers capped off by Landon Hawes silenced the WLU offense to put the Eagles ahead 23-10 eight minutes in.  
• Washington and Lee responded with a quick 4-2 scoring spirt that was disrupted by another triple and layup from Topper to push the lead out to 14. A DiSibio response was matched by a Cooper three pointer. The two sides traded makes down the stretch of the first half but a pair of BC trifectas from Law and Woody Machado gave the Eagles a 47-30 edge at the break.
• The visitors opened the second half on a 6-0 run and extended it to a 10-4 scoring spree to ge the Bridgewater lead back down to 11 before another Law triple opened the game back up. The Generals responded with a three pointer of their own before Aaron Oates knocked down his own jumper from beyond the arc. DiSibio tried to take over for WLU and got the lead down to 10 before Law nailed another three-pointer to extended the lead back out. BC extended the lead out to as much as 73-56 with nine minutes left after a Khalil Ward layup off the pass from Machado.
• After the Ward make, the Generals slowly closed in riding the momentum from DiSibio. WLU went on a 16-4 run behind 10 from the Sandy Hook, Conn. native to make it just a five-point game with under four minutes to go. Right on cue Law hit again from three to put the brakes on the Generals attack for just a moment as DiSibio found the hoop. After the basket from the Generals leading scorer, Oates went to work down low with a make on the offensive end and then poked a ball free from DiSibio on the defensive end leading to a Topper trifecta on the other end to put BC back in front by double digits at 85-74 with 83 seconds left. Some good clock management from WLU allowed them to slowly close the gap back down to six with 22 seconds left before two clutch makes by Hawes at the charity stripe sealed the deal.

Match Notes 

• Law led BC with 24 points behind six three pointers and going four-of-four from the charity stripe. His only non-three-point basket came on a buzzer beater to end the opening half. The six long balls also register as the first such game since Liam Caswell knocked down seven against Guilford last season.
• As scouted DiSibio and Jack d'Entremont led the Generals. DiSibio dropped 36 points while d'Entremont tallied 23 points and an impressive 21 rebounds.
• Topper stretched his streak to three straight games with a double-double to open the season behind 20 points and 10 rebounds. The Monroe, N.C. native is the only player in the ODAC to do so and is one of only 16 players in Division II with multiple such games this season.
• Bridgewater saw production from all of the roster as seven Eagles knocked down a three pointer for a total of 18 as a team, the most since the Eagles knocked down 15 in a loss to Guilford in the ODAC Quarterfinals last season.
• The Eagles also picked up their first win over Washington and Lee under head coach Steve Enright.

Up Next 
 
The Eagles return home this weekend as they host the Carlyle Whitelow invitational on Saturday and Sunday. BC clashes with Penn Tech on Saturday at 6 p.m.