JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Saint Peter's guard Wesley Jenkins matched a career-high with 27 points after he knocked down a career-best seven 3-pointers to help lift Saint Peter's to a 76-52 win over Canisius College Sunday afternoon in the Yanitelli Center. The win improves the Peacocks to 2-5 on the year and 1-1 in MAAC play, while the Golden Griffins have now dropped two straight and stand at 3-5 overall and 0-2 in conference action.

For the game, the host Peacocks shot 49 percent (24-for-49) from the field, with 11 of those makes coming from behind the 3-point arc. Saint Peter's shot 52.4 percent (11-for-21) from long range, led by Jenkins, who had five 3-pointers in the first half.

“When a team shoots like that from behind the 3-point line, you have to play a perfect game in order to beat them,” Canisius head coach Tom Parrotta said. “We've done it in the past to teams ? where you just shoots lights out - and it really zaps a team when you defend and defend, only to have a 24-foot shot go through the basket. Our defensively philosophy is to control the inside and make teams beat us with contested shots from the outside. To their credit, both teams we played this weekend were able to do that.”

For the Griffs, Frank Turner scored a team-high 10 points to go with six rebounds and four assists in the loss. Greg Logins posted nine points and six rebounds while Chris Gadley and Julius Coles added eight points apiece in the loss.

Saint Peter's used an 11-0 run over 2:20 to break the game open midway through the first half. During that run, which started with a tip-in by Saint Peter's guard Nick Leon, Jenkins drained back-to-back 3-pointers, with the second one coming as the shot clock ticked under five seconds. For the first half, the Peacocks shot 52 percent from the floor and 57.1 percent from 3-point land, while the Griffs shot 33.3 percent from the field and 30.8 percent from behind the arc.

“They were scoring three points here and three points there, and we were coming up with empty possession,” Parrotta said. “It's hard to win on the road, but when a team shoots that high of a percentage from behind the 3-point line, it makes it that much more difficult.”

Canisius will return to action Saturday, Dec. 13, at Albany in a return game of last year's ESPNU BracketBuster series. Tipoff in the state's capital is set for 7 p.m.

Game Notes: This was the first afternoon game of the season for the Griffs... Frank Turner played in his 70^th career game as a Griff on Sunday, which is every game under Tom Parrotta... Turner's 10 points gives him 873 in his career, which ranks 37^th all-time in school history... Tomas Vazquez Simmons' block in the first half was the 90^th in his career and the 50^th against a MAAC opponent... Despite the loss, Canisius still leads the all-time series with Saint Peter's by a 35-25 count.