Box Score ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. - In the end, the 25th and last game was a microcosm of the 2012-13 season for the Bard College men's basketball team.

They struggled shooting early and fell behind.

They rallied in the second half and got close.

They went silent in the final few minutes and lost.

Bard cut a 16-point second-half deficit to two with 3:38 remaining the game, but Berkeley College of New Jersey outscored Bard 13-3 from there, earning an 82-70 victory in the first-ever meeting between the teams on Friday night.

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It was an 8-0 run by the Knights over the final 2:03 that ended Bard's season on a disappointing note. But the game had its moments, and the crowd was into it.

Bard shot 1-of-13 from three-point range in the first half and trailed by nine, 36-27, at halftime. Both teams shot 40 percent, but the Raptors had eight turnovers. Then, in the first four minutes of the second half, Berkeley extended the lead to 46-30, and it didn't look good for the home team.

Then the three-pointers started to fall. The Raptors made 5-of-7 over a six-minute stretch, and with 10:05 left in the game, Berkeley's lead was just 57-53.

So the Knights turned to their leading scorer, freshman Isaac Robinson (Trenton, NJ), who sat the first 30 minutes for disciplinary reasons. In his first 30 seconds on the floor, he made a jumper, blocked and shot and grabbed a rebound. Still, Bard kept pushing and got even closer after Robinson entered the game.

A three-pointer by Ben Kane with 7:49 left cut Berkeley's lead to 61-58. Robinson hit a jumper, then after another Bard turnover, hit another. The bulge grew to nine.

Bard made another charge. A three-pointer by Lamar Powell ... an old-fashioned three-point play from Siondueh Burnette ... and a three-pointer by Jeremy Arnstein cut the lead to 69-67 with 3:38 left.

The Raptors went 1-for-9 from the field after that point and turned it over once: Game over.

Berkeley got 25 points, seven rebounds and four steals from freshman Dukens Germain (Maplewood, NJ). Robinson finished with 10 points and four rebounds in 10 minutes.

Burnette had 15 points, 16 rebounds and two blocks to lead Bard. Powell added 13 points, Kane 11, and freshman Brandon Cunningham chipped in with 10.

Bard senior co-captains Jeremy Arnstein and Frank Stortini played their final game. Arnstein had eight points and six assists; Stortini had two points, eight rebounds and five assists.