Garden City, N.Y. – Junior forward Connor Mahoney (Hanover, Mass./BC High/Brooks School) scored a career-high 24 points to lead the Le Moyne College men's basketball team to a 75-68 win at Adelphi University on Wednesday evening in Northeast-10 Conference play at the Center for Recreation and Sport.

Mahoney, one of five Dolphin starters to score in double digits, tallied 19 of his game-high point total in the second half on 7-of-11 shooting from the field, while adding seven rebounds and two steals. Sophomore forward Stan Buczek (Port Jervis, N.Y./Burke Catholic) recorded 14 points and five rebounds, while junior guard Qwadere Lovell (Mount Vernon, N.Y./Mount Vernon) registered 12 points, eight assists and seven rebounds in going the distance. Senior forward Ryan Romich (Groton, Mass./Groton-Dunstable/Vermont Academy) and freshman guard Russell Sangster (Rockville, Md./Bullis School) each scored 10 points, while Romich grabbed a game-high nine rebounds and tied a career high with five blocked shots.

The Panthers, who have lost 12 straight games to fall to 4-17 on the season, placed three players in double figures. Anthony Libroia and Damon Coleman each scored 16 points, while Libroia had five assists and five rebounds and Coleman dished out four assists. Michael Coffey, a high school teammate of Buczek's, registered 12 points.

Adelphi opened the game with the first nine points and 13 of the first 15 to take its largest lead of the game at the 13:56 mark. Coffey, Coleman and Libroia each hit three-pointers before Sangster got the Dolphins on the scoreboard with a lay-up. Duane Morgan and Libroia followed with baskets in the paint to force a Le Moyne timeout.

The Dolphins, who clinched a berth in the Northeast-10 Conference Championships with the victory, answered with a 10-4 run over 4:18 to trim their deficit to five. Mahoney started the spurt with a three-pointer, freshman guard Tanner Hyland (South Portland, Maine/South Portland/Bridgton Academy) followed with a jumper, Buczek made a lay-up and free throw on separate possessions and then Lovell nailed a jumper.

Following a Le Moyne timeout, the Panthers scored five straight points to regain their double-digit advantage. Kyle McLeggan buried a three-pointer and Coleman followed with a jumper for a 22-12 lead with 7:51 left in the half.

Le Moyne tallied 13 of the next 17 points, including the seven straight on the backend, to pull within one, 26-25, with 2:34 left in the half. Romich, Lovell and Sangster each made a basket before Buczek had five consecutive points. Sangster capped the streak with a pair of free throws.

The teams traded baskets over the final 2:20 of the half as Adelphi took a 32-29 lead into the intermission.

The Dolphins opened the second half with the first six points and 10 of the first 13 to take their first lead of the game. Mahoney scored the first six before Buczek and Lovell each registered lay-ups.

Adelphi responded by wrapping a 5-0 run and a 4-0 spurt around a 5-0 burst by the Dolphins to knot the game at 44-apiece with 13:43 left. In the 5-0 run, Coleman hit a three-pointer and Ryan DeNicola made a lay-up, while Coffey recorded a four-point play for the other four points. Hyland made a three-pointer and Romich dunked the ball for the Dolphins.

After Adelphi took a 50-49 lead with 11:49 to go on a McLeggan three-pointer, the Dolphins used a pair of 8-2 runs around a Justin Jenkins three-pointer to take their biggest lead of the game, 65-57, with 3:43 to play. Four Dolphins scored in the first 8-2 streak, while Romich had four of the eight in the second run, which was capped by a Sangster fast-break lay-up.

The Panthers got back-to-back baskets from Coffey and Jenkins to get within four, but Mahoney nailed a pair of three-pointers around two Libroia free throws to push Le Moyne's margin back to eight.

The teams traded points over the final 50 seconds to deliver the final score.

Le Moyne (14-8, 8-7 NE-10), which has won back-to-back games on the road for the first time since the first week of December, returns home to face Southern Connecticut State University on Saturday at 2:00 p.m.