Purchase College's Elijah Lott scored 27 points and the Panthers posted a 97-76 non-conference win over the Hamilton College Continentals on Saturday afternoon.

Hamilton (7-1 overall) suffered its first setback of the season while Purchase moved to 3-4 overall. The Panthers shot 52.9 percent from the field, including a season-high 50 percent (6 of 12) from 3-point range.

Kena Gilmour '20 paced the Continentals with 20 points and added two steals. Eric Anderson '22 scored a personal-best 14 points on 5 of 7 shooting from the floor with two 3-pointers. Spencer Kendall '21 contributed eight points and Nick Osarenren '22 totaled seven points, five rebounds and two steals.

Lott has scored 20 or more points in each of the Panthers' seven games this season. The junior guard also totaled nine assists, nine rebounds and three steals. Maxx Miller dropped in 17 points, collected seven rebounds and grabbed four steals. Jorge Perdomo helped with 15 points, Elijah Harris had 14 points and Kyle Menard scored 11.

Purchase held a 15-point cushion with 8:34 left in the first half before Kendall sparked a 5-0 run with a dunk off a feed from Conner Rood '23. Kendall drew a foul on the next possession and hit 1 of 2 free throws to cut the deficit to 12 points at 34-22, and Gilmour's slam dunk at 7:10 made it a 10-point game. Lott halted Hamilton's streak with two free throws at 7:02, but Gilmour immediately responded with a layup, drawn foul and made free throw. Back-to-back 3-pointers by Gilmour at 5:20 and Anderson at 5:02 sliced Hamilton's deficit to three points at 38-35. Anderson hit both of his free throws with 1:14 remaining for a one-point deficit, and Osarenren tied the score at 47-47 with a layup, got fouled and concluded the three-point play on the charity stripe with 35 seconds left.

The teams went point-for-point in the opening minutes of the second half. Kendall gave Hamilton its first and only lead at 55-54 with 16:24 remaining when he grabbed an offensive board and banked the ball in. The Panthers retaliated with a 12-2 run and gained their double-digit lead back at 69-58. Purchase took their largest lead of 23 points at 97-74 on a Miller layup and free throw with 59 seconds to go.

Hamilton quickly returns home for a non-conference game against Johnson & Wales University on Sunday, Dec. 8 at 4 p.m. The contest marks just the second time this season that the Continentals will play at Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.