GENEVA, NY (January 23, 2016) — The Vassar College men's basketball team fell on the road, 77-52, to Hobart College on Saturday. 

With the loss, the Brewers drop to 7-9 overall and 3-4 in conference play, while the Statesmen improve to 8-8 and 4-3 in the Liberty League. 

Just one day after the Vassar men beat Rochester Institute of Technology, 74-63, the Brewers were unable to tame the Statesmen.

Senior Erikson Wasyl (Durham, CT/Coginchaug) and sophomore Jesse Browne (Barrington, RI/Deerfield Academy) led the Brewers with 14 and 11 points, respectively. Wasyl has scored in double figures in all but one game this season, and Browne has totaled at least 11 points for three games in a row now. The duo also accounted for all seven of Vassar's 3-pointers.

The Brewers were held to 31 percent scoring from the floor and 29 percent from 3-point range, but they outscored the Statesmen 9-7 from the charity stripe. 

Hobart shot 48 percent from the floor and 39 percent from three. Four Statesmen starters scored in double figures, including Jamal Lucas and Colin Dougherty, who added 16 points apiece. The pair also combined for five of the team's six steals. 

The difference came down to turnovers, as the Statesmen scored 26 points off the Brewers' 11 giveaways, while Vassar scored eight off of Hobart's seven. 

The Brewers never led as the Statesmen opened the game by scoring the first 21 points. Wasyl put the Brewers on the board with a trey with 11:46 left in the first half, but the Statesmen stretched their lead to 25 before Wasyl drained another three.

Vassar cut the margin to 11, as Hobart took a 38-27 lead into the break. The Brewers kept chipping away to get within seven early in the second half, but that was the closest they would come to closing the deficit completely.

The Statesmen scored 10 unanswered to make it 48-31, and later took their largest lead, 67-40, with 5:20 to play.

Vassar travels to Bard College for an 8 p.m. game on Tuesday before returning to Poughkeepsie for four games at the Athletics and Fitness Center.