Staff report

PHILADELPHIA — Livingstone’s men’s basketball team had to settle for winning two out of three on its five-day northern road trip.

After finding success at Virginia Union and Bowie State, the Blue Bears played a flat first half at Lincoln on Monday, got down by 19 and couldn’t fight all the way back.

Lincoln (6-7, 3-1) led 43-24 at halftime and won the CIAA game 79-68 behind 24 points by Freddie Young Jr.

Detionne Leach, a 6-foot-5 senior forward from Newport News, Va., scored 17 for the Blue Bears (4-7, 2-2) on 7-for-12 shooting.

Pharoah Lassiter and Nathan Montaque scored 11 each. Omarion Broadnax got 10 with 5-for-6 accuracy.

Livingstone shot a decent 45.9 percent, but made only three 3-pointers and turned it over 18 times in Rivero Hall.

The game completed pre-Christmas action for the Blue Bears.

Livingstone     24    44    — 68

Lincoln             43     36    — 79

LC — Leach 17, Lassiter 11, Montaque 11, Broadnax 10, Tiller 7, Allen 5, Shaw 3, Nipper 2, Street 2.