Syracuse, N.Y. – Senior guard Alex Marple (Covington, Pa./Wellsboro) hit a pull-up jumper with 0.7 seconds left to give the Le Moyne College women's basketball team a 63-61 come-from-behind victory over Pace University on Tuesday night in the Northeast-10 Conference regular-season finale at Ted Grant Court.

The Dolphins finish the regular season at 16-12 overall and 10-10 in Northeast-10 play. The 10-10 mark ties the Dolphins with American International College for fourth place in the Northeast-10 Southwest Division, but the Yellow Jackets get the fourth seed in the NE-10 Championship by virtue of their sweep of the Dolphins during the season series. As the fifth seed, the Dolphins will travel to North Andover, Massachusetts to face the Northeast Division's fourth seed, Merrimack College, on Friday at 7:00 p.m. Le Moyne, which finished the regular season with the third-most wins in the program's history and the most since the 2001-02 team had 17 wins en route to an NCAA Tournament berth, won in North Andover on January 17 by a score of 65-58.

After being held scoreless for the first 33:09 of the game, Marple scored seven points over the last 6:51, including a pair of go-ahead jumpers in the paint. She added two rebounds, the second of which gave the Dolphins the ball with just under 10 seconds remaining. Junior guard Vandell Andrade (Cranston, R.I./St. Mary's-Bay View/Rhode Island College) registered her team-best sixth double-double of the season and flirted with a triple double with 15 points, a season-high 17 rebounds and a career-best eight assists, the last of which set up Marple's game-winner. Senior forward Bath-Sheba McMahon (Queens, N.Y./Grambling Laboratory (La.)/Weatherford College) recorded her third double-double of the campaign with a season-high 19 points and 10 rebounds, including eight in the second half, five of which came on the offensive end. Senior forward Emily Greer (Corry, Pa./Corry) was the first of the three Dolphins in double figures as she scored 13 of her 17 points in the first half.

Margo Hackett led Pace in the loss with 18 points, eight rebounds, five assists and three steals. Jaclyn Oskam was the only other Setter in double digits with 14 points, while adding seven rebounds, three blocks and two assists.

Trailing by four, 61-57, after a Pace three-point play with 39 seconds left, the Dolphins scored the final six points of the game for the victory. Out of a timeout, Greer took a pass from Marple on the left wing and buried her fourth three-pointer of the game while drawing a foul. She went to the foul line with 30 seconds left and converted the free throw to knot the game at 61-apiece. Hackett attempted to give the Setters the lead with 10 seconds left, but her lay-up rolled off the rim and Marple grabbed the ball, forcing a jump ball with 9.2 seconds remaining. After a Le Moyne timeout, Andrade worked the ball up court before getting it to Marple, who drove past her defender before pulling up and hitting a 15-footer for the lead with 0.7 seconds left. Pace was unable to get a shot off before the contest ended.
 
After the teams split the first 18 points of the game over 4:40, Pace ran off nine straight points to take control. Oskam and Gabrielle Rubin buried three-pointers, Rachel Dortch made a jumper and Kirsten Dodge capped the span with a free throw with 11:22 remaining.

Following two points from each team, the Dolphins scored eight consecutive points to get within one with 5:47 to go. Greer hit consecutive three-pointers and then McMahon made a lay-up.

Hackett answered with a lay-up and Oskam followed with a three-pointer to put the Setters back up by six. The teams then traded points over the final four minutes of the half as Pace took a 29-23 lead into the intermission.

Yuni Sher opened the scoring in the second half with a lay-up to put the Setters up eight, but the Dolphins responded with seven of the next eight points to get within two. McMahon made a lay-up, Andrade converted a free throw and a lay-up and then McMahon made two free throws with 15:34 remaining.

Following a Rubin three-pointer to give Pace a 37-32 lead with 14:38 left, the Dolphins scored seven straight points for their first lead of the game. McMahon started the push with a jumper, sophomore guard Ailayia Demand (Watervliet, N.Y./Watervliet) made a lay-up off an Andrade offensive rebound and then Demand buried a three-pointer from the right wing for a 39-37 edge with 13:14 to play.

The Setters answered with 12 of the next 16 points to regain a six-point advantage. Hackett had five of the points, while four others accounted for seven points.

Le Moyne countered again with a 9-2 run over two and one-half minutes to regain the lead. Andrade made two free throws, Marple nailed a three-pointer from the right corner for her first points, McMahon converted two foul shots and then Andrade gave the Dolphins the lead with 4:42 left with a coast-to-coast lay-up after grabbing a defensive rebound.

The teams then traded the lead three times over two minutes before Pace put a 5-2 spurt together to take the aforementioned four-point lead with 39 seconds left. Sher gave the Setters their final lead with a lay-up with 2:06 left and then Hackett made two foul shots with 1:20 remaining for a 58-55 edge. After Andrade made a lay-up, Oskam recorded a conventional three-point play for a 61-57 advantage.