ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The Golden Flyers fell to RPI 60-54 in another close game this weekend in the Championship round of the Mike Daley Memorial Tournament. Tyler Putney and Jaylen Savage were named to the All-Tournament Team.
 
Nazareth's opening weekend brings a 1-1 record as the Golden Flyers look ahead to its next tournament.
 
Two players for Nazareth were in the double figures including Jaylen Savage with 19 and Luke Insley with 12. Insley also led the team in assists with five.
 
The game was low-scoring to start, neither team breaking double-digits until midway through the first half. Leading to the second half, the game was very back-and-forth with the Golden Flyers and Engineers exchanging buckets. With two and a half minutes to go in the first, Tyler Putney dropped in a free throw to put Nazareth up one. A three from Putney and another from Zach McFarland, as well as a good lay from RPI brought the Golden Flyers to a 26-21 lead heading into halftime.
 
In under five minutes of second-half play, RPI was able to string together a few good runs to take the lead. The two teams then battled back and forth, taking leads from each other for the next eight-or-so minutes of play. RPI was finally able to get a two-possession advantage over Nazareth with 7:25 left to play. Though the Golden Flyers battled through the end, they were not able to recover from the deficit and dropped the game 60-54.
 
The Golden Flyers will play again on Thursday, November 21, at 6 p.m. against RIT at the University of Rochester in the first round of Mark's Pizzeria Crosstown Challenge.