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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — The Dominican University of California men's basketball team gave itself an early Christmas present Monday night in the Conlan Center.

Devin Golston tallied a game-high 14 points and freshman Christopher Schwartz-Edmisten came off the bench to make all four of his three-point shots to match it, helping the Penguins gift-wrap a convincing 96-60 victory over Simon Fraser University, their fourth in a row. Jammall Clark, Ricky Wofford, and freshman Jonny Bates added nine points apiece as all 14 Dominican players on the roster scored in the contest.

The non-conference win boosted the Penguins' overall record to 6-3, their best start since the 2004-05 season when Dominican opened with a 7-2 mark. The Clan (5-3), who was averaging 89 points a game entering the game, was coming off a 17-point loss to defending NCAA Division II national champion Western Washington on Dec. 1 and Dominican topped that with its highest scoring output in regulation time in a game since a 99-57 win over Simpson College on Feb. 4, 2005.

“We've steadily improved and those guys are getting more comfortable with each other,” said Penguins Head Coach Booker T. Harris. “Their concentration and execution on both ends of the floor is getting better… It makes you kind nervous [because we're playing so well], we are off for a long time for the [holiday] break.”

The Penguins do not play again until Saturday, Dec. 29, when they play at NCAA Division I University of San Francisco. Game time in Memorial Gymnasium is 7:00 p.m.

Dominican closed the first half on a 29-14 run and built a 20-point lead, 56-36, on a Golston dunk off a Myles Carrillo pass with 16:19 remaining in the game. Schwartz-Edmisten then rattled off 10 consecutive points to push the Penguins' lead to 25, 66-41, with 11:31 to go and Dominican rolled from there.

The Penguins started the game fast as Wofford, by scoring or assisting, had a hand in Dominican's first eight points, but it was bench play that gave the home team its biggest boost. Clark, who had a team-high six rebounds, scored seven points in his first seven minutes and Schwartz-Edmisten netted three-pointers on his first two shots helping Dominican's subs outscored Simon Fraser's bench 28-7 in the opening 20 minutes.

Schwartz-Edmisten keyed a 7-0 by diving to the floor for a loose ball that led to a 3-point play by Clark. Golston then scored four consecutive points and set a screen from freshman Matt Hayes to hit a three-point shot.

Wofford gave the Penguins their biggest lead, 48-31, with a jumper to finish the first half with nine points and five of his game-high six assists.  Dominican ended the half shooting 61.8 percent from the floor and scoring 50 points, its most in an opening half since Feb. 2010.

In the second half, the Penguins limited the Clan to 37.5 percent shooting and Dominican improved its record to 12-0 under Harris in games in which it held its opponent to 62 or fewer points.

The Penguins resume Pacific West Conference play on Jan. 5 when they begin a three-game road trip to Hawai'i by playing UH Hilo on the Big Island. Dominican's next home game is Jan. 14 when they host BYU-Hawaii in the Conlan Center.