Garden City, N.Y. – Kelly Mannix scored 25 points to lead ninth-ranked Adelphi University to an 87-64 victory over the Le Moyne College women's basketball team on Wednesday evening in Northeast-10 Conference action at the Center for Recreation and Sport.

Junior guard Vandell Andrade (Cranston, R.I./St. Mary's-Bay View/Rhode Island College) led the Dolphins in the setback with her fourth double-double of the season. She registered 19 points and grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds, while posting three steals. Senior Tessa Pucello (Syracuse, N.Y./Solvay) netted 11 points off the bench, while senior guard Alex Marple (Covington, Pa./Wellsboro) tallied 10 points and two assists.

Mannix, the fifth-leading scorer in the conference, netted 16 of her points in the second half as part of Adelphi's 55-point half. Ashley Gomez came off the bench to record 18 points (14 in the second half) and grab a team-best eight rebounds. Calli Balfour flirted with a triple-double with 11 points, nine assists and eight rebounds, while also posting five steals.

The Dolphins jumped out to a five-point lead just over two and one-half minutes into the game. Andrade scored the first five points, Marple made a lay-up and then senior forward Bath-Sheba McMahon (Queens, N.Y./Grambling Laboratory (La.)/Weatherford College) scored inside.

After calling timeout, Adelphi rattled off eight of the next nine points for its first lead of the contest. Mannix hit a pair of three-pointers before Anh-Dao Tran recorded a fast-break lay-up off a steal.

Following a timeout of its own with 14:24 left, Le Moyne recorded a 15-3 run to take its largest lead of the game. Pucello hit consecutive three-pointers and a lay-up, senior forward Emily Greer (Corry, Pa./Corry) buried a three-pointer, freshman guard Austin Stevens (Adams Center, N.Y./South Jefferson) made a lay-up and then sophomore guard Ailayia Demand (Watervliet, N.Y./Watervliet) hit a jumper at the 10:41 mark to force an Adelphi timeout.

The Panthers responded with nine of the next 11 points as part of a 14-5 run that spanned nine minutes. Mannix started the streak with a three-pointer, Balfour contributed five points and Tran capped it by finishing off a pass from Balfour with a fast-break lay-up to get the Panthers within 30-29 and force a Le Moyne timeout with 1:25 to go in the half.

The Dolphins scored six straight points, including a three-pointer from Pucello, to push their lead back to seven, but Tara Flynn nailed a three-pointer with just over two seconds left to get Adelphi within 36-32 at halftime.

After McMahon started the scoring in the second half with a lay-up, the Panthers scored seven consecutive points to take the lead. Jenna Halaby scored the first four points before Samantha Brenner recorded a conventional three-point play.

Following back-and-forth play over the next two minutes resulted in a tie at 44-apiece with 14:55 remaining, the Panthers scored nine straight points and 19 of the next 23 to blow the game open. Mannix had the first seven points and 10 total in the stretch, while Gomez had the other nine points.

Marple hit a three-pointer with just over eight minutes left to get the Dolphins within 12, but Adelphi responded with 12 of the next 16 points to take its first 20-point lead of the night. Tran and Gomez hit consecutive three-pointers to start the streak, Sierra Clark scored four straight and then Mannix converted a fast-break lay-up.

Junior guard Lauren Salzbrenner (Sheboygan, Wis./Sheboygan North) and Greer hit three-pointers around a Mannix lay-up to get the Dolphins within 16, but the Panthers closed out the game with 10 of the last 13 points. Four different Panthers accounted for the 10 points, including four from Balfour.
 
Le Moyne (14-8, 8-7 NE-10), which holds a one-game lead over American International for fourth place in the NE-10 Southwest Division standings with five games to go, returns home to take on Southern Connecticut State University on Saturday at 12:00 p.m.