Rindge, N.H. – Four players scored in double figures to lead Franklin Pierce University to a 79-63 victory over the Le Moyne College women's basketball team on Saturday afternoon in Northeast-10 Conference action at The Fieldhouse.

Senior guard Alex Marple (Covington, Pa./Wellsboro) led all players with 29 points, including 15 in the first half. With the output, which included a career-best 13 made free throws, she moves into 11th place on the program's career scoring chart with 1098 points. She has scored at least 25 points in five games this season and is the first Dolphin in 10 years to post a pair of games with at least 29 points. Junior guard Vandell Andrade (Cranston, R.I./St. Mary's-Bay View/Rhode Island College) pulled down a game-high 10 rebounds, while adding nine second-half points

Kara Charette led the Ravens with 18 points, including 10 in the first half, and a eight rebounds. Allison Palma and Jemma Thacker registered 13 and 11 points, respectively, off the bench, while Jessica Hurd posted 10 points, three rebounds and three assists.

After Charette and Marple, the league's second and third leading scorers, traded points to start the game's scoring, the Ravens tallied nine straight points and 15 of the next 19 to open up a double-digit lead. Hurd had five of the points, while Dyamond Gardner and Natalie Bastian each had four before Palma capped the run with a lay-up with 13:38 left.

Following 10 points from each team over the next six and one-half minutes, during which time Franklin Pierce's lead bounced between nine and 15 points, the Ravens put together a 9-2 run to push their lead to 18 with 4:13 left. Charette had four of the points, while Kate McDonald hit a three-pointer and Palma made two free throws.

Marple got the Dolphins within 16 on two occasions over the next three minutes, but Palma and Jasmyne Fogel each converted lay-ups in the final 63 seconds to give the Ravens a 42-22 lead at halftime.

Senior forward Emily Greer (Corry, Pa./Corry) got the Dolphins within 17 with a three-pointer 1:41 into the second half, but the Ravens answered with six straight points on lay-ups by Gardner, Charette and Palma.

The teams then went back and forth over the next seven minutes with Franklin Pierce's lead bouncing between 20 and 24 points.

The Ravens then used an 8-3 spurt over three and one-half minutes to open up their largest lead of the game, 69-41, with 6:14 left.

Le Moyne registered 20 of the game's last 28 points to get within 16 at the final buzzer. Senior forward Tessa Pucello (Syracuse, N.Y./Solvay) tallied eight of the points, Andrade had six, senior forward Bath-Sheba McMahon (Queens, N.Y./Grambling Laboratory (La.)/Weatherford College) added four and Marple started the jaunt with two free throws.

Le Moyne (14-7, 8-6 NE-10), which has dropped consecutive games for the first time this season, returns to action on Wednesday at Southwest Division-leading Adelphi University at 5:30 p.m.