CHESTERTOWN, Md.—No. 25 Swarthmore College Men's Basketball won the first Centennial Conference game of the 2017-18 season, topping the Washington College Shoremen 79-70 on the road.

Swarthmore's Cam Wiley scored a game-high 18 points while shooting 7-for-13 from the floor. He added four rebounds, three assists and three steals. The Garnet had three other players score double-digit points. Zack Yonda scored seven of his 17 points from the free-throw line.

Nate Shafer added 11 points and had nine rebounds. Zac O'Dell tallied 10 points and had eight rebounds and four blocks.

The Garnet finished 30-for-57 from the floor for a 52.6 percent mark and kept the hosts to a 37.5 percent rate.

Swarthmore trailed by a basket or two for nearly all of the first half. A layup by Wiley with 2:14 to play in the half followed by a layup by Walsh with 1:43 gave the Garnet a 35-33 lead.

The Garnet got a defensive stop on Washington's final possession of the half with a block from Shafer. On the other end, Shafer kept the possession alive, tipping an offensive rebound out to Conor Harkins on the arc. Harkins quickly passed to Jim Lammers on the left wing and Lammers knocked down a 3-pointer as the buzzer sounded to end the half.

The Garnet took the five-point lead into the second half and stretched it to 12 with 8:30 to play. The Shoremen came back to within five points with less than four minutes to play, but Swarthmore prevented them from getting any closer than that.

The Garnet return to Tarble Pavilion on Sunday for their next game, a 3 p.m. date with Misericordia University.