NORTHFIELD, Vt. – Sophomores Zygimantas Sirvydas (Silale, Lithuania) and Ryan Booth (Northfield, Vt.) scored 14 and 11 points, respectively, but the Norwich University men's basketball team dropped a 91-56 Great Northeast Athletic Conference contest to Lasell College on Thursday night.

With the win, Lasell picked up its fifth straight win and are 3-0 in the league and are 5-3 on the year, while Norwich falls to 0-2 in the conference and 2-6 overall.

Booth, who poured in seven points in the first half, shot 4-of-6 from the floor, including a pair of shots from beyond the arc and made his only free throw attempt. Sirvydas shot just 2-of-4 from the field and made both shots from the line, pulled down a rebound and collected a pair of assists on the night.

Three players scored double digits with senior Logan Liberty (Duxbury, Vt. posting a team-high 19 points and pulled down seven rebounds and a block with a pair of assists for Lasell. Classmate Richard O'Brien (Manchster, N.H.) contributed 17 points, while Pat Marchand (Cranston, R.I.) added 12 points to go with the five rebounds, two assists, two steals and two blocks.

Lasell jumped out to a 11-0 lead in the first seven minutes of the game before the Cadets got on the board on a Mike Hogervorst (Leiden, Netherlands) layup at the 13:04 mark. The Lasers managed to accumulate the points by penetrating the paint with back door passes for the easy layups throughout the half. Norwich struggled to hit the net, shooting just 31 percent from the floor in the stanza and made just 2-of-11 from beyond the arc with all four free throw attempts made, while the Lasers extended the lead to 37-24 at the half after hitting 53.1 percent from the floor and 2-of-5 from the three-point range.

The second half was all Lasell as the Lasers improved their marks by shooting 64.7 percent in the stanza that saw seven treys doing the most damage. Norwich strived to get into the contest but the Lasers pounded the boards with 19 rebounds to the Cadets' 10 with 11 points coming on second chances. Lasell closed out the contest with a 40 point lead for the 91-56 final score and its third conference win of the season.

The Cadets will take a break for the holidays and will return to action on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2016 on the road against New England College.