A historic effort gave the Nipissing Lakers men's basketball a key win Saturday afternoon in Sudbury.

An impressive effort by the Lakers team gave them a 101-96 win over Laurentian, thanks to four players hitting double digits.

Nipissing outscored Laurentian in three of the four quarters and held leads of 27-26 after one and 50-46 at halftime.

Laurentian pushed back in the third and took a one point lead in the final quarter.

Nipissing, down one, poured it on and outscored the Vees 26-20 to come away with the victory.

Marvin Ngonadi and Marcus Lewis each had 21 points, Jaaden Lewis added 16 and Quinton Ashitei had 14 in the victory.

Nipissing hosts Carleton Friday night and Ottawa Saturday night.