Denver, Colo. – Emily Keesling registered seven points to lead top-ranked and top-seeded Adelphi University to a 13-4 win over the second-ranked and second-seeded Le Moyne College women's lacrosse team on Thursday afternoon in the NCAA Semifinals at Metropolitan State University of Denver's Regency Athletic Complex.

The Dolphins finish the season with a record of 18-3. The 18 wins are tied with the 2011 and 2015 teams for the most in the program's history. Each of the three seasons were ended by Adelphi in the NCAA Semifinals.
 
Adelphi opened the game's scoring with the first six goals over the opening 15 and one-half minutes. Northeast-10 Conference Player of the Year and likely national player of the year Jacqueline Jahelka found the back of the net just 48 seconds into the game off a pass from Keesling. Just 30 seconds later, Keesling registered her first goal of the day. Michele Scannell put the Panthers up 3-0 with 26:00 remaining in the first half. Rachel Aitkens then scored three goals in a span of 6:42. She converted a free-position shot with 21:13 left, finished off a pass from Keesling 56 seconds later and then tallied Adelphi's sixth goal with 14:31 remaining after taking another pass from Keesling.

Le Moyne broke through with 12:20 left in the first half as sophomore attacker Jacqueline Pardee (Camillus, N.Y./West Genesee) scored from the right edge of the crease after collecting a pass from senior attacker Maggie Monnat (Baldwinsville, N.Y./C.W. Baker).

The Panthers tallied the final three goals of the half to take a 9-1 lead into the intermission. Chelsea Abreu netted her team's seventh goal by making a free-position shot with 7:33 left. Scannell followed with a free-position goal of her own with 3:01 left, while Jahelka found the back of the net with 25 seconds remaining off a pass from Danielle Montano.

The teams traded goals over the opening 12:08 of the second half. The Panthers started the scoring just 56 seconds into the stanza as Scannell finished off a pass from Keesling. Freshman attacker Bryanna Fazio (Watertown, N.Y./General Brown) answered back with 24:55 left with her Le Moyne freshman-record 56th goal of the season. Rachel O'Brien pushed Adelphi's lead back to nine with 20:22 left off a pass from Keesling, while junior attacker Alexis Garbarino (Endwell, N.Y./Maine-Endwell) tallied her 11th goal of the season with 18:29 left. Kate Beier capped the back-and-forth action with 17:52 remaining after receiving a pass from Scannell.

Keesling finished off Adelphi's scoring in the game by converting a free-position shot with 15:41 remaining.

Garbarino delivered the final score by scoring with 23 seconds left after taking a feed from Monnat.

Senior goalkeeper Ryan Cortese (Brewerton, N.Y./Paul V. Moore) turned away three shots in the setback for the Dolphins. With today's two assists, Monnat finishes her career with 235 points, the third-most in the program's 23-year history and just seven off the program's top mark, while her program-record 132 career assists are 28 more than the next closest total. Adelphi goalkeeper Taylor Hayes recorded eight saves, including six in the second half, to record her 21st victory of the season.