NASHUA, N.H.– Trailing by as many as 12 points with nine minutes remaining in the second half, host Daniel Webster outscored Dean 21-8 over the next seven minutes, taking the lead for good on an Angelo Adon jumper with 2:42 left and the Eagles went on to hold off the Bulldogs, 84-79 Thursday night at Vagge Gymnasium.

Marquise Caudill (Windsor, Conn.) led DWC (5-1) with a game-high 20 points.  He also added eight rebounds and was 10 of 11 at the line while Adon (Silver Spring, Md.) finished with 17 points off the bench. Jaquan Harrison (Windsor) picked up a double of 13 points and game-best 12 boards off the bench and blocked a game-high four shots.

 DWC was also helped by nine points from Antwaun Boyd while Ray Farmer (Nashua) flirted with a double double finishing with nine points and eight boards.

The hosts, who led by three at the half, shot an unconscious 70-percent in the second half (14-20) and earned key advantages in total rebounds (43-40), assists (19-12), and blocks (6-3) helping negate 14 Bulldog steals. DWC also earned a 40-26 scoring advantage in the paint though they allowed an almost costly 19 second chance points for Dean.

Dean (7-5, 2-5 NCAA), which is in a transitional season before joining the NCAA and NECC next year, was paced by 17 points from Dayvon Russel, who added six caroms and four steals, while Jacee Hamelin posted 15 points off the bench.

DWC helped hold the Bulldogs' talented top sniper Naquwan Solomon to 13 points, though the rookie forward filled the stat sheet with seven boards, three assists, three blocks and two steals. Both Kendall Hamilton and Aziz Gilliam chipped in with 12 points apiece.

The Bulldogs, who ultimately hurt themselves with a rough second half at the line (13-23), still came out firing in the second period taking the lead on a Hamilton three which helped ignite a steady 21-9 stretch that consumed nearly six minutes with the lead twice reaching 11, the second coming on a Josh Croskey jumper for a 60-49 game with 12:19 left.

 DWC whittled the deficit to five thanks to a Mikol Blake Green put back and later a Jared Harrington trey but Dean answered with another 7-0 Hamelin run (4-4 at the line, one trey) to give the Bulldogs their largest lead at 67-55 with exactly nine minutes on the clock.

 From there, it was all Eagles. DWC converted on eight of its final nine shots went a combined 11 for 12 at the line, and saw Harrison block two shots over that final nine minutes. Dean, meanwhile was 3 of 11 from the floor and 2 of 11 at the line over that same stretch.

 Despite the massive momentum switch, Dean still lead by three (75-72) after a Hamelin three with 3:55 left but Farmer answered inside and after a Dean miss, Adon knocked home a soft 10-footer for DWC's first lead of the half at 76-75 with 2:42 to go.

 A thunderous dunk from Caudill off a nifty pass from Harrington pushed the lead to three with 1:56 to go and Farmer knocked down two freebies for an 80-75 game at the 1:11 mark.

 John Lambert helped stem the bleeding for a moment going inside for Dean with 41 ticks to go but Caudill helped provide some distance with two at the charity stripe with 36 seconds left for an 82-79 lead.

 Russell would draw a three-shot foul hitting two with 20 seconds to go for Dean, but Tommy Organ iced things with two more at the line with 10 seconds left. 

The Eagles visit Gordon on Saturday in a nonleague tilt at 3:00 p.m. Dean visits Rivier on Saturday at 1:00 p.m.