JOHNSON, Vt. – Johnson State College received huge lifts from seniors Andy Bousono (Philadelphia, Penn./Nueva Esperanza) and Cody Camisa (Colchester, Vt./Colchester) to help key a come-from-behind win over visiting Maine Maritime Academy on Saturday 71-70 in North Atlantic Conference (NAC) men's basketball action at Carter Gymnasium.  With the duo playing their final game in front of the Johnson faithful, Bousono canned five 3-pointers and Camisa came up with a shot block as game clock approached zero and preserve the win that now has JSC at 9-16 overall, 7-11 NAC.  Maine Maritime ends their regular-season at 4-20, 3-15 NAC.

Bousono's 15 points led Johnson on the afternoon while also adding four assists and two steals.  Freshman guard Asim Khan (Torrance, Calif./Torrance) scored 14 points, dealt out four assists, and collected four steals and junior forward Bryan Hickey (Barre, Vt./Spaulding) supplied 12 points and a team-high six rebounds.

The Mariners were paced by freshman center Logan Poirier (Winterport, Maine/Hampden Academy) were recorded game-high's of 17 points and nine rebounds.  Senior forward Andy Ball (Hermon, Maine/Hermon) hit 3-of-5 3-pointers en route to a 15-point, five-assist, four-rebound night and senior guard Paul Campbell (Camden, Maine/Camden Hills) added 14 points, nine boards, and six assists.

Maine Maritime ran out to an early 17-point lead following a lay in by sophomore wing Tyler Chiasson (Dixfield, Maine/Dirigo) to make the count 28-11 with 9:33 left to play in the first half.  The Badgers, behind the hot hand of Bousono, would rally and shrink the gap to four points by halftime at 44-40.  Bousono drilled three consecutive 3-point attempts in a two minute span to key the surge for Johnson.

MMA would keep the hosts at bay for the until three minute mark when junior guard Lester Alexander (Burlington, Vt./Burlington) converted a lay-up and was fouled making the score 66-65 Badgers with Alexander connecting on the free to give JSC the two-point lead, their first since the opening minutes of the game.

Johnson would get the lead to five but back to back buckets by Ball and Jason Hatch (Islesboro, Maine/Islesboro) got MMA back to within one.  A Mariner stop gave the visitors the ball and a chance to win with under :20 seconds to play.  A Campbell miss that bounced off a Johnson had out of bounds game the Mariners the ball back with :08 to play.  The ball wasn't entered, passed to the top to Ball who had Camisa isolated in space.  Ball took a hard dribble left and rose for the jumper but simultaneously Camisa did the same getting a piece of the shot attempt as the ball fell well short as the buzzer sounded sending Carter Gym into a frenzy.

Both teams shot the ball well throughout the contest with Johnson going 10-20 (50%) from the 3-point line and 25-55 (46%) from the field.  Maine Maritime topped that with a 56% (29-52) effort from the field and 7-of-13 (54%) from the arc.

Johnson will enter the NAC tournament as the #7 seed and will play at #2 Husson University on Tuesday night.