LORETTO, Pa. – The Saint Francis men's basketball team made a season-high 13 three pointers, including eight from senior Ben Millaud-Meunier (Montreal, Quebec/Vanier), as the Red Flash downed Robert Morris, 90-78, Saturday night at DeGol Arena. Malik Harmon (Queens, N.Y./Christ the King) scored a season-high 22 points while tying his career high with four three pointers.
 
Saint Francis (10-11, 6-4) built a big lead in the first half by hitting five of those three pointers in the first 10 minutes of the game. Millaud-Meunier made three of those five in the first six minutes, and Harmon's second of that stretch gave the Flash a 21-12 lead with 10:18 left. A layup from Ronnie Drinnon (Jamestown, Ohio/Greenview) at 9:06 gave the Flash its first double-digit lead of the game at 23-13.
 
"The zone that Robert Morris plays, you have to make shots," head coach Rob Krimmel said. "You can't rely on just threes, but you have to make shots.  Fortunately, we have a couple guys that can do that.  Ben and Malik got us off to a great start.  Those are shots they've made their whole career."
 
After Robert Morris cut the lead to 23-16, the Flash went on a 13-1 run over nearly six minutes to push its advantage to 36-17 with 4:13 left in the half. Georgios Angelou (Halkida, Greece/Lykeio Kanithou) helped launch that streak with a four-point play to make it 29-16. Millaud-Meunier had another three in this stretch, and layups from Greg Brown (Odenton, Md./Archbishop Spalding) and Drinnon capped the run.
 
Even though the run was done, Harmon wasn't. He scored seven more points in the final 1:43 of the half to give him 13 through the first 20 minutes. He joined Millaud-Meunier (12) and Drinnon (10) in double figures in the first half alone. Saint Francis carried a 43-23 lead into halftime.
 
Millaud-Meunier pushed the Red Flash lead to a game-high 25 with a trifecta of three pointers in a span of less than two minutes early in the second half. The final of those made it 54-29 SFU with 14:02 left. His eighth three pointer moved into a tie for third place on the school's single-game three-point chart, and it came in style. He took a feed from Isaiah Blackmon (Charlotte, N.C./West Charlotte) and buried the shot as he was fouled. The four-point play gave SFU a 68-46 lead with 7:55 to play.
 
The momentum shifted back to Robert Morris following that sequence. The Colonials went on a 10-0 run in less than two minutes to knock the lead back down to 12 points with 5:50 left. Robert Morris cut it to single digits on a Steven Whitley layup to make it 81-72 with 2:15 left. It got as close as seven points with 1:21 to play, but the Red Flash went 7-of-8 from the free throw line down the stretch to hold Robert Morris at a three-possession game. SFU went 21-for-29 (72.4 percent) from the line in the second half and 23-of-32 (71.9 percent) for the game.
 
Millaud-Meunier came just one three pointer shy of tying the school's single-game three-point record of nine, accomplished twice by John Hilvert within nine days of each other in February 1989. Drinnon finished with 16 points and a game-high 12 rebounds. That's his 10th double-double of the season.
 
"I have a lot of respect for Andy [Toole] and Robert Morris' program," Krimmel said. "It's a great opportunity for two schools in Western PA to battle and I'm proud of the way our guys competed tonight."