LEXINGTON, Va. — Senior forward William Brueggeman (Houston, Texas/Strake Jesuit College Prep) scored his 1,000th career point, and senior forward Curtis Mitchell (Chevy Chase, Md./Georgetown Prep) tied the school single-game record in blocks with seven, as the Washington and Lee men's basketball team defeated Emory & Henry on Tuesday, 98-85, at Holekamp Gym.
 
The Generals (2-1, 2-1 ODAC) trailed by 11 with 9:18 remaining in the first half, after senior guard Robert Holliday, Jr., made a layup to put the Wasps (0-5, 0-5 ODAC) up 34-23. Brueggeman answered with back-to-back triples to pull W&L to within five (34-29).
 
The margin was at six (42-36) after a triple by first-year forward Jack d'Entremont (Bryn Mawr, Pa./Radnor) with 4:39 on the clock, and then a three-pointer by Brueggeman and a jumper by sophomore guard Cheick Toure (Silver Spring, Md./Sandy Spring Friends School) sandwiched around an E&H bucket cut the lead to three, 44-41, with 2:35 remaining in the half.
 
The Blue and White trailed by four with two minutes to go in the stanza, but a jumper by junior guard Mark Lamendola (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mount Lebanon), a three-pointer by Brueggeman and a layup by Mitchell gave the Generals a 50-47 advantage with 33 seconds on the clock. A late jumper by Holliday then trimmed the W&L lead to one at halftime.
 
The Generals scored the first nine points of the second half to extend the lead to double digits. The spread was still 10 at the 11:35 mark, but then a 6-1 spurt, capped on a layup by sophomore guard Richie Manigault (Stewartsville, N.J./Phillipsburg) stretched the advantage to 15 with 9:12 left in the contest.
 
W&L slowly extended the lead, and then Brueggeman recorded his 1,000th point and the 28th of the night on a three-pointer in front of his own bench to give the Blue and White an 88-70 margin with 5:26 on the clock. The Wasps made a late push over the closing minutes, but never cut the lead below eight, as the Generals pulled out the 13-point victory.
 
Brueggeman registered his 28 points on 10-of-19 from the field and 5-of-8 from three. He also had eight rebounds, two steals and two assists. Mitchell stuffed the stat sheet in the contest. Along with the seven blocks, he had 12 points, 13 rebounds and five assists.
 
This is the fourth time in program history a player has notched seven blocks. The last player before Mitchell to achieve the feat was J.D. Ey '13 on December 20, 2011.
 
Manigault finished with 15 points, and Lamendola had 10 points. Sophomore guard Jack Lewis (Rockville, Md./Sidwell Friends), the team's other starter, just missed double-digits with nine points and five rebounds.
 
W&L shot 55.1 percent (38-of-69) from the field and 42.9 percent (9-of-21) from long range. E&H made 32-of-74 shots (43.2 percent) from the floor and 10-of-22 (45.5 percent) from beyond the arc.
 
Junior guard Micah Banks led the Wasps with 22 points, seven rebounds and four assists, while Holliday added 19 points and 11 rebounds.  
 
The Generals return to action on Friday with a game at Shenandoah at 7:00 pm.