Box Score OSWEGO, N.Y. – The Manhattanville men's basketball team dropped its first game of the 2013-14 season on Friday afternoon, falling by a 78-69 score to Neumann in game one of the 2013 Max Ziel Tournament, hosted by SUNY Oswego at Max Ziel Gymnasium.
 
Senior Jack Bramswig (Pleasantville, N.Y./Pleasantville) led Manhattanville (0-1) offensively, scoring 21 points on 10-of-12 shooting and also grabbing a team-best 12 rebounds. Classmate Colin Campbell (Miami, Fla./LaSalle) and junior Connor Quigley (Pelham, N.Y./Pelham Memorial) were both in double figures as well with 14 and 12 points, respectively.
 
Mark Blount matched Bramswig for the game lead with 21 points and also added 16 rebounds for Neumann (1-0), which also got double-figure efforts from Kevin Green (18 points), Deshawn Loman (11 points) and Reggie Coleman (10 points).
 
Sophomore Andrew Winter (Queens, N.Y./St. Francis Prep) got the year started with a layup on the first possession of the game, but Neumann followed with nine of the next 11 points to take a 9-4 lead with 15:57 to go in the half. After a three-point play from Winter and a Quigley three put the Valiants up 10-9, the Knights went on a 15-8 run over the next six minutes that gave them a 25-17 lead with 9:14 remaining in the half.
 
Down by nine points soon after, Manhattanville came back with a quick 8-0 run to get back into the game, as a three from sophomore Anthony Maestre (Bronx, N.Y./Mount St. Michael Academy) was followed by a dunk by Bramswig and another Quigley three to make it 28-27 with 7:07 left. But the Valiants could not gain the lead for the remainder of the frame, and Neumann closed on a 7-2 run to take a 46-38 lead into the half.
 
Winter led the Valiants with nine points on 3-of-5 shooting and five rebounds at the break, followed by Bramswig with eight points and four boards.
 
Neumann outscored Manhattanville 8-2 coming out of the break to open up a 54-40 lead less than three minutes into the second half, and the Knights eventually built up their lead to as many as 21 at 69-48 on a Blount layup with 9:25 remaining. Manhattanville nearly halved the lead thanks to a 12-2 run sparked by four points each from Campbell and Bramswig that made it 71-60 with 2:32 left, but the Valiants ran out of time down the stretch.
 
Manhattanville finished the day shooting 45.8 percent (27 for 59) from the field, while Neumann was only slightly better at 48.3 percent (29 for 60).
 
Manhattanville will return to action tomorrow, when the Valiants face off with Lancaster Bible in the consolation round beginning at 2 p.m.