Garden City, N.Y. – Jessica Kitrys scored 29 points to lead 18th-ranked Adelphi University to an 82-59 win over the Le Moyne College women's basketball team on Saturday afternoon in Northeast-10 Conference action at the Center for Recreation and Sport.

Junior forward Bath-Sheba McMahon (Queens, N.Y./Grambling Laboratory (La.)/Weatherford College) led the Dolphins in the loss with 18 points in 12 minutes off the bench, including 14 points in eight minutes in the second half, while grabbing three rebounds and blocking a shot. Sophomore forward Maggie Brown (Cortland, N.Y./Cortland) was the only other Dolphin to reach double-digits, finishing with 13 points, nine of which came in the first half, while pulling down a team-best six rebounds.

Kitrys, an All-Northeast-10 Conference Second Team selection last year, tallied 21 of her points in the first half on 10-of-12 shooting from the field. She finished the game 13-of-17 and grabbed seven rebounds. Calli Balfour recorded 13 points and five rebounds, while Kelly Mannix posted 10 points and a game-high nine rebounds. Sade Jackson, an All-NE-10 Third Team selection last year, registered seven points, seven rebounds and seven assists (three below her Division II-leading average of 10 per game).

After the teams split the first 10 points of the contest, the Panthers tallied nine of the next 11 to take the lead. Kitrys had the first four (off passes from Jackson), Jackson had a conventional three-point play and then Mannix made a lay-up off a feed from Jackson.

Following a jumper by junior guard Alex Marple (Covington, Pa./Wellsboro) and a three-pointer by graduate student guard Kayla Stroman (Syracuse, N.Y./Christian Brothers Academy/Niagara) to pull the Dolphins within 16-12 with 12:19 left in the first half, Adelphi posted a 12-4 run over a span of 3:44 to take a 12-point lead. Kitrys had eight of the points, while Jackson and Jenny Halaby each made shots.

Le Moyne responded with a 10-3 spurt to close within five with 4:04 to go in the half. McMahon started the run with a lay-up, Brown scored five points and senior guard Maddy McKnight (Springfield, Pa./Springfield) capped the jaunt with a put-back lay-up.

Adelphi (12-0, 6-0 NE-10), one of only nine unbeaten teams remaining in the country, closed out the half with 13 of the last 16 points to take a 44-29 lead into halftime. Kitrys led the run with six points, Mannix hit a three-pointer and Balfour and Tara Flynn made jump shots.

Following a 5-0 spurt by the Dolphins on a lay-up by Brown and a three-point play by McKnight to start the second half, the Panthers registered a 12-2 run to take their first 20-point lead of the game. Balfour had four of the points, while four other Panthers each had two points.

Le Moyne scored five straight points and seven of the next nine to pull within 58-43 with 10:41 left, but Adelphi answered with 10 consecutive points and 13 of the next 15 to put the game away. In Le Moyne's run, junior forward Tessa Pucello">Tessa Pucello (Syracuse, N.Y./Solvay), Marple and Brown scored, while Kitrys had the first four points and Lauren Nuss had the last six (on two three-pointers) in Adelphi's response.

The Dolphins countered with seven in a row to cut their deficit to 19 with 5:22 left, but could not get any closer. McMahon had all seven points in the span for Le Moyne.

Adelphi, which was selected to win the Northeast-10 Conference Southwest Division in the preseason coaches' poll, closed out the game with 11 of the last 18 points. Five different Panthers accounted for the 11 points, led by three from Ashley Gomez, while McMahon had five of Le Moyne's seven and Stroman had the other two.

Le Moyne (8-4, 4-2 NE-10), which sits in third place through the first half of Southwest Division play, returns to action at home on Wednesday against top-ranked Bentley University (12-0) at 5:00 p.m.