RADNOR, Pa. – The Castleton State College men's basketball team saw its season draw to a close in the first round of the NCAA National Championship, 104-87 to No. 5 Cabrini at the Nerney Field House Friday evening.
 
Castleton's season ends at 19-10, its highest win total since the 1997-98 season. Cabrini, meanwhile, advances at 27-1.
 
Mark Comstock (Rutland, Vt.) scored a team-high 22 points and senior Greg Hughes (West Rutland, Vt.) added 11 points, four assists, four steals and three rebounds. Senior Keith Schneider (Benson, Vt.) added eight points in his final contest with the Spartans.
 
Freshman Aaron Moss-Walton (Camden, N.J.) scored a game-high 23 points to go along with 14 boards off the bench to lead five Cavaliers in double-figures. Moss-Walton's 9-for-10 performance from the field was followed by 17 points apiece by Cory Lemons (Wilmington, Del.) and Fran Raferty (King of Prussia, Pa.), a dozen from AJ Williams (Wilmington, Del.) and a double-double 10-points, 11-rebounds from Goran Dulac (Levittown, Pa.).
 
After trailing early, Cabrini slowly built its lead to 24-19 at the 9:39 mark in the first half and then used a 13-0 run over the two minutes to break the game open. Moss-Walton scored the final six in the run, before a Logan White (Hartford, Vt.) jumper stopped the surge momentarily.
 
The Cavaliers pushed the lead to 57-35 by halftime and kept the lead hovering around the 20 point mark for much of the second half before a late 9-2 run sliced the deficit to 93-80 on a Comstock lay-up with 3:05 remaining. It was as close as the Spartans would come.