West Haven, Conn. – Aquillin Hayes scored 23 points to lead the University of New Haven to an 80-64 victory over the Le Moyne College women's basketball team on Tuesday night in Northeast-10 Conference action at Charger Gymnasium.
 
Seniors Alex Marple (Covington, Pa./Wellsboro) and Bath-Sheba McMahon (Queens, N.Y./Grambling Laboratory (La.)/Weatherford College) each scored 17 points in the setback for the Dolphins, while McMahon pulled down seven rebounds. With her final basket of the game, Marple passed Kim Wagoner '08 for ninth on the program's all-time scoring list with 1134 points. Additionally, she increased her season total to 424, the seventh-highest mark in a single season in the program's history and the most since Jennifer Feher '04 during the 2001-02 season. Senior forward Emily Greer (Corry, Pa./Corry) recorded her third double-double of the season with 11 points and a career-high 14 rebounds. Her previous career high of 13 rebounds came 364 days ago against the Chargers.

Hayes, the leading candidate for player of the year in the conference, registered 13 of her game-high point total in the second half, while pulling down nine rebounds and posting four steals and three assists. Bria Moore recorded 14 points and seven rebounds, Elizabeth Cruso had 11 second-half points. Briana Bradford and Lauren Hebert had 13 and 10 points off the bench, respectively.

After the teams traded points over the opening three and one-half minutes of the game, the Dolphins rattled off 17 straight points over 3:07 to take a 23-7 lead, their largest margin of the game. Greer hit three three-pointers in the streak, Marple and freshman guard Austin Stevens (Adams Center, N.Y./South Jefferson) each hit a three-pointer and McMahon added a lay-up.

The Chargers responded with 25 of the next 33 points over 11:19 to regain the lead. Moore had nine of the points, Hayes had eight, Hebert tallied four and Bradford and Rykema Stone each had two.

McMahon had five points around two free throws from Bradford to give the Dolphins a 36-34 lead at halftime.

Following back-and-forth play over the opening three minutes of the second half, the Dolphins put together an 8-1 run over three minutes to regain a seven-point edge. Junior guard Vandell Andrade (Cranston, R.I./St. Mary's-Bay View/Rhode Island College) started the spurt with a jumper, McMahon made two lay-ups and then Greer converted a lay-up for a 50-43 lead with 14:08 left.

After McMahon hit two free throws with 11:18 left to give the Dolphins a 54-51 lead, the Chargers scored eight straight points and 23 of the next 26 to blow the game open. Cruso gave New Haven the lead with back-to-back three-pointers before Hebert knocked down a jumper. Following a conventional three-point play by junior forward Maggie Brown (Cortland, N.Y./Cortland), five Chargers scored in a 15-0 run, led by five points from Hayes, as New Haven opened up a 17-point lead with 3:48 to go.

Marple recorded three-point play with 3:32 left to snap Le Moyne's scoring drought of 4:38, but Bradford made a lay-up and Sade King hit two free throws to push New Haven's lead to a game-high 18 points.

Marple drilled a three-pointer and Andrade hit a free throw after two Bradford free throws to close out the game's scoring.

Le Moyne (14-10, 8-9 NE-10), which has suffered five straight losses, returns to the hardwood on Saturday at The College of Saint Rose at 1:30 p.m.