Box Score Thanks to a couple different pairs of hot hands, Colorado College emerged from the ranks of the winless on Sunday.

Junior guard Ryan Milne scored 23 points while sophomore forward Chris Lesnansky contributed 22, fueling CC to an 85-69 home-court victory over Benedictine University at Reid Arena.

After three losses to start the season, games in which the Tigers averaged less than 60 points per contest, the offensive explosion was a welcome change.

They shot a season-high 46 percent from the field, including 13-for-25 from three-point range, where Milne picked up 18 of his points with half a dozen long-distance buckets. Lesnansky, meanwhile, picked up nearly half of his total from the free-throw line, sinking 10 of 14 charity tosses while surpassing the 20-point plateau for the third time in four outings.

He added eight rebounds, two fewer than senior forward Ian Rewoldt's game-high 10. Rewoldt chipped in with 15 points in addition to dominating the boards.

Benedictine, also 1-3, got 17 points from Michael Woolf and 14 from Raphael Oglesby. The visitors from the Chicago area shot 53 percent from the floor but launched only 49 attempts compared to CC's 56. 

The Eagles led early on, scoring the first five points of the game before matching that advantage on a three-pointer by Jamison Montgomery that put them up, 26-21, with 5:39 left in the opening half. Colorado College, however, went on a 13-5 run and surged ahead to stay, at 32-31, when freshman Justin Berardino answered from the arc 90 seconds before intermission.

The Tigers out-gunned Benedictine, 51-38, in the second half when Milne dished out five of his seven assists.