Garden City, N.Y. – Junior Chris Ranglin scored 18 points to lead Adelphi to a 76-61 win over the Le Moyne College men's basketball team on Saturday afternoon in Northeast-10 Conference action at the Center for Recreation and Sport.

Ranglin tallied 13 of his 18 points as the Panthers built a 42-25 lead at the intermission. Cliff Brown recorded 13 points and six rebounds, while Robert Johnson scored 12 points.

Junior guard Derrek Tartt (Chicago, Ill./Oak Park Fenwick/UAlbany) led four Dolphins in double-digits with 17 points, the highest point total of his collegiate career, while adding a career-and game-high eight rebounds and three assists. Senior guard Chris Johnson (Lindenhurst, N.Y./Lindenhurst) posted 14 points off the bench, while classmate James Cormier (Trumbull, Conn./Trumbull/Proctor Academy (N.H.)) and sophomore center Jim Janson">Jim Janson (Scotia, N.Y./Scotia-Glenville) each scored 12 points.

The Panthers scored the first five points of the game on a three-pointer by guard Richard Harkins and a jumper by Ranglin as they ran out to a double-digit lead after just five minutes and 43 seconds (15-5). Ranglin accounted for seven of Adelphi's 15 points.

Following a jumper by Chris Johnson made the score 15-7 with 14:08 left, the Panthers recorded a pair of 8-0 runs around a Tartt lay-up to take a 31-9 lead and force a Le Moyne timeout with 6:46 remaining in the half. Forward Bradley Simpson had four of the eight points in the first run, while Brown had four of the eight points in the second run.

After back-and-forth play over the next 4:25 shaved a point off Le Moyne's deficit, the Dolphins scored seven straight points to get within 37-23 with 1:07 left in the half. Cormier drilled a three-pointer to snap a stretch of six minutes and 55 seconds without a field goal for the Dolphins, while Johnson and Tartt followed by making two free throws each.

Adelphi scored five of the half's final seven points to take a 17-point lead at halftime.

The Dolphins scored seven of the first 11 points of the second half to trim Adelphi's lead to 46-32 with 17:15 remaining in the game. However, the Panthers answered with the game's next 13 points over a span of five minutes and 11 seconds to put the game out of reach. Robert Johnson had five of the 13 points, while four other Panthers had two points apiece.

The teams split the game's next 22 points as the Panthers held a 70-43 advantage with 5:54 left to play. Brown had five of Adelphi's 11 points, while Janson had five points for the Dolphins.

Following Brown's three-pointer with 5:54 left, the Dolphins got three-pointers on three of their next four possessions to cut their deficit to 18 with 3:11 to go. Johnson nailed the first three-pointer, while Cormier followed with consecutive three-pointers.

After three-pointers by John Calarco and Ranglin put the Panthers up 76-54 with 1:40 to go and finished off Adelphi's scoring in the game, the Dolphins tallied the game's final seven points. Tartt and Cormier each buried a pair of free throws with 19 seconds left and Johnson closed out the game with a three-pointer with 12 seconds remaining.

Le Moyne (3-5, 2-5 NE-10), which has lost four of five meetings with the Panthers since Adelphi joined the Northeast-10 in 2009, hosts Post University in non-conference action next Saturday at 1:00 p.m.