Garden City, N.Y. – All-Conference guards Anh-Dao Tran and Kelly Mannix combined for 39 points to lead 10th-ranked Adelphi University to an 82-70 victory over the Le Moyne College women's basketball team on Sunday afternoon in the Northeast-10 Conference Championships quarterfinals at the Center for Recreation and Sport.

Le Moyne (17-13), which fell to the Panthers by 23 points in each of the previous four meetings, now awaits word on a berth into the ECAC Championships, which will be held March 11, 14 and 15. The field for the ECAC Championships will be announced on Monday, March 9.

Senior guard Alex Marple (Covington, Pa./Wellsboro) led four Dolphins in double digits with 19 points, 10 of which she scored in the second half, while adding a game-high four assists and rebounds. The game marked the 110th of her career, which ties Regan Burns '02 and Courtney Coryea '10 for the most by a Dolphin without the use of a redshirt season. Junior guard Vandell Andrade (Cranston, R.I./St. Mary's-Bay View/Rhode Island College) registered 15 points, five rebounds and one steal. Senior forwards Emily Greer (Corry, Pa./Corry) and Bath-Sheba McMahon (Queens, N.Y./Grambling Laboratory (La.)/Weatherford College) each tallied their fifth double-doubles of the season. Greer recorded 12 points and 10 rebounds, while McMahon had 10 points and 11 rebounds for her third straight double-double. With her two three-pointers in the game, Greer set the program's record for the most three-pointers in a season with 64, eclipsing the mark of 63 set by Kim Black '93 in 1991-92 and equaled by Muffy Sadler '10 in 2009-10.

Tran, a member of the Northeast-10 Second Team, led all scorers in the contest with 20 points, 13 of which she scored in the first half, while adding four rebounds and three assists. Mannix, who joined Marple on the Northeast-10 First Team, registered 19 points, including 12 in the first half, nine rebounds and three assists. Samantha Brenner registered 14 points, while Calli Balfour, a Third Team All-Conference honoree, recorded 10 points and eight rebounds.

After Greer opened the game with the first five points to force an Adelphi timeout 1:19 into the contest, Adelphi scored eight straight points to take the lead, which it would not relinquish. Mannix bookended the run with lay-ups, while Balfour hit a jumper and Jenna Halaby made a fast-break lay-up.

Following Greer's program record-setting three-pointer with 14:32 left to get the Dolphins within 14-12, the Panthers tallied 12 of the next 16 points to open up their first double-digit lead of the game with 11:38 left. Tran buried a pair of three-pointers in the span, while three other Panthers scored two points each.

The then went back and forth over the next five and one-half minutes with Adelphi's lead bouncing between six and nine points. Five Dolphins combined for 10 points, while four Panthers combined for seven points.

After two free throws from Greer with 6:08 left made it 33-26, Adelphi rattled off 19 of the next 27 points to take its largest lead of the game. Mannix hit a pair of three-pointers in the stretch, while Tran had five points, Ashley Gomez had four and Brenner and Balfour each had two. Andrade accounted for six of Le Moyne's eight points.

Marple and junior forward Maggie Brown (Cortland, N.Y./Cortland) each had two points as the Dolphins pulled within 52-38 at halftime.

Le Moyne scored 11 of the first 15 points of the second half to trim its deficit to seven with 15:01 left. Andrade made a jumper, McMahon made a lay-up, Brown hit a jumper, McMahon converted another lay-up and then Marple buried a three-pointer to make the score 56-49.

Following a Mannix three-pointer and a Brenner lay-up to push Adelphi's lead back to 12 with 13:02 remaining, the Dolphins scored nine of the next 11 points to get within five, 63-58, with 9:39 remaining. Andrade made two free throws, senior forward Tessa Pucello (Syracuse, N.Y./Solvay) drained a three-pointer, Andrade made a lay-up and then Marple connected on two free throws.

Adelphi outscored the Dolphins 10-0 over the next six minutes to put the game away. Tran, Brenner, Halaby and Balfour each hit shots in the span, while Halaby capped the stretch with two free throws with 3:38 to go.

Le Moyne tallied 10 of the next 12 points to get within seven with 1:09 left, but could not get any closer. Marple started the spurt with a conventional three-point play, Greer and McMahon made shots, Marple converted two more free throws and then Andrade made a foul shot.

Gomez made two foul shots and Tran connected on five over the last 31 seconds after a McMahon put-back lay-up to close out the game's scoring.