Pleasantville, N.Y. – Kai Smith hit five of his team's 12 three-pointers to lead Pace to an 84-59 win over the Le Moyne College men's basketball team on Wednesday night in the Northeast-10 Conference opener for both teams at the Goldstein Fitness Center.

Smith finished the contest with a game-high 17 points, 12 of which came in the first half, while dishing out four assists. Adrian Mills recorded 15 points, four rebounds, three assists and three steals, while Keon Williams came off the bench to post 15 points and a team-high five rebounds.

Sophomore Brian Zapisek (Manlius, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius) led the Dolphins in scoring with 12 points, including eight in the second half, while adding a career-high 10 rebounds for the first double-double of his career.

After Zapisek had a put-back lay-up on the first possession of the game, the Setters scored seven straight points. Jonathan Merceus scored the first four on a pair of lay-ups followed by a three-pointer from Smith.

Zapisek snapped the run with two free throws, but Pace answered with 15 of the next 19 points for a 22-8 lead at the 11:30 mark. Smith had a three-pointer on each end of the stretch, while Williams had two baskets, Kevin Clark drilled a shot from three-point range and Delroy Daley converted a pair of free throws.

Following a put-back lay-up by sophomore guard Chris Secky (Bemus Point, N.Y./Maple Grove), the Setters rattled off nine consecutive points for their first 20-point lead of the night. Daley started the streak with a conventional three-point play, while Mills followed with conventional three-point plays on back-to-back possessions.

The Dolphins scored seven of the next 10 points to trim their deficit to 17, but Pace recorded a 13-3 run to take its largest lead of the stanza at 47-20. Clark and Denzel Primus-Devonish began the stretch with consecutive three-pointers, while Daley contributed four points.

Le Moyne got five points in the final 48 seconds of the half as sophomore Nate Champion (Logansport, Ind./Logansport) made a lay-up and junior Gamal Mohamed (North Plainfield, N.J./Immaculata) drilled a three-pointer to go into the intermission trailing 47-25.

After the Dolphins scored the first five points of the second half on a three-pointer by Zapisek and a lay-up by junior guard Derrek Tartt (Chicago, Ill./Oak Park Fenwick/UAlbany), Pace ran off 19 of the next 25 points to push its lead above 30 for the first time. Merceus ignited the run with a conventional three-point play and two free throws around a three-pointer by Ahmad George, Mills drilled a pair of three-pointers around a jumper by Williams and Smith capped the streak with his fifth three-pointer of the contest at the 12:00 mark.

Le Moyne scored 15 of the next 21 points to cut its deficit to 21 with 5:37 remaining, but that's as close as it would get. Tartt had six points in the span, while sophomore center Jim Janson (Scotia, N.Y./Scotia-Glenville) had two lay-ups, senior guard James Cormier (Trumbull, Conn./Trumbull/Proctor Academy (N.H.)) knocked down a three-pointer from the top of the key and freshman forward Ryan Romich">Ryan Romich (Groton, Mass./Groton-Dunstable/Vermont Academy) had a lay-up to begin the streak.

The Setters scored 12 of the game's last 20 points to deliver the final score. Five different Setters scored in the stretch, led by four points from Williams, while Zapisek had Le Moyne's last four points after baskets by Romich and Mohamed.

Le Moyne (0-1, 0-1 NE-10) plays the first of its four non-conference games on Saturday at Mercy at 3:00 p.m.