(Loch Sheldrake, NY) - Freshman Joe Zayer (West Nyack, NY/Clarkstown South HS) scored a team-high 21 points to go with five rebounds and five assists, and sophomore Miles Haughton (Mamaroneck, NY/Mamaroneck HS) notched a double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds, but the Westchester Community College Men's Basketball team closed out the 2018 portion of their schedule with an 84-67 loss to Sullivan Community College on Thursday night at SUNY Sullivan. With the loss, the Vikings enter 2019 with an 8-4 overall record, a 3-2 ledger in Mid-Hudson Conference play, and a 2-2 mark against NJCAA Region XV competition.

The game was a tale of two halves as Sullivan (8-3, 2-0 Mid-Hudson Conference, 2-0 Region XV) stormed out to a fast 10-4 lead, before Westchester chipped away at the deficit. With eight minutes remaining in the opening half, a Fabian Johnson (New York, NY/Our Savior Lutheran) tied the game at 19-19, and two minutes later, a Zayer three-pointer gave the Vikings their first lead of the game, 26-24. Sullivan took a 33-31 lead as the final seconds ticked down in the first half, but a buzzer-beating lay-up by sophomore Jon Brennan (Irvington, NY/Iona Prep) tied the game at 33 heading into halftime.

However, after a Haughton dunk tied the game at 35 early in the second half, the Generals went on a big run to take a 14-point lead, and force the Vikings to play catch-up for the rest of the game. Westchester brought it back to as close as a 10-point deficit, but that was as close as the Vikings would get.

Also having a big game for Westchester was sophomore Maurice Hollis (Bronx, NY/Tuckahoe HS), who capped off a tremendous week with a 10-point effort, while freshman Robert Pope (Bronx, NY/Lehman HS) added 10 rebounds.

Westchester Community College now enters the holiday break, and will continue play after the New Year when they travel to Lackawanna Community College on Saturday, Jan. 5 at 3:00 p.m. The game will be the fourth of Westchester's six-game road trip. WCC returns home on Tuesday, Jan. 15 for a 7:00 p.m. game against Raritan Valley Community College.