West Haven, Conn. – Aquillin Hayes recorded a double-double to lead the University of New Haven to a 69-54 win over the Le Moyne College women's basketball team on Wednesday night in Northeast-10 Conference play at Charger Gymnasium.

Sophomore forward Maggie Brown (Cortland, N.Y./Cortland) led the Dolphins in the loss with 14 points, 11 of which came in the second half, while grabbing a team-best six rebounds. Junior forward Tessa Pucello (Syracuse, N.Y./Solvay) came off the bench to record 10 points.

Hayes tied Brown for the most points in the game, while pulling down 10 rebounds, including seven in the second half. Elizabeth Cruso and Briana Bradford each had 11 second-half points, while Bria Moore tallied 10 points and eight rebounds. Ayana Duncanson grabbed 10 rebounds (8 in the first half), scored six points and blocked two shots.

New Haven opened the game with 12 of the first 14 points over the opening 9:51 of play. Five different Chargers made baskets in the stretch, including a pair from Rykema Stone.

After going almost eight minutes without a point, the Dolphins posted an 8-3 run over a span of 51 seconds to cut their deficit to five. Junior forward Bath-Sheba McMahon (Queens, N.Y./Grambling Laboratory (La.)/Weatherford College) started the run with a conventional three-point play, sophomore forward Lauren Price (Humble, Texas/Atascocita) followed with a jumper and then Pucello buried a three-pointer.

Following back-to-back lay-ups by junior forward Emily Greer (Corry, Pa./Corry) that got the Dolphins within 20-14 with 3:59 left in the half, the Chargers ended the half with nine of the last 10 points. Moore hit a three-pointer, Duncanson made a lay-up, Stone converted a jumper and then Hayes closed out the scoring with a lay-up to make the score 29-15 at halftime.

The teams opened the second half by splitting the first 20 points over a stretch of 5:28. Brown led the Dolphins in the span with five points, while Hayes had four for the Chargers.

After a Hayes lay-up with 14:32 left gave New Haven a 39-25 advantage, the Dolphins scored eight straight points to get within six with 12:06 left, but could not cut into their deficit any further. McMahon started the run with a jumper and Brown followed with three straight lay-ups.

New Haven answered with a 7-0 run to regain control of the game. Duncanson began the spurt with a leaner in the paint and then Bradford nailed a three-pointer and made a lay-up to push the margin back to 13 with 9:27 remaining.

The Dolphins were able to trim New Haven's lead to eight on a pair of occasions with less than three minutes left, the last of which came on a lay-up by graduate student guard Kayla Stroman">Kayla Stroman (Syracuse, N.Y./Christian Brothers Academy/Niagara) with 2:14 left, but the Chargers went 15-of-16 from the foul line over the final 2:23 to put the game away. Bradford and Cruso were each 6-of-6, while Hayes went 3-for-4.

Le Moyne (3-1, 0-1 NE-10), which dropped to 1-5 against New Haven in West Haven since the Chargers joined the NE-10 prior to the 2008-09 season, returns to action on Saturday at The College of Saint Rose at 1:30 p.m.