Mansfield, Pa. – Senior guard Ailayia Demand (Watervliet, N.Y./Watervliet) tallied 15 points to lead the Le Moyne College women's basketball team to a 73-67 come-from-behind overtime win over Mansfield University on Monday evening in non-conference action at Decker Gymnasium.

Demand scored all of her points after halftime, with five of them coming in the overtime period, while adding four assists and four steals. Freshman guard Liz Millea (Cooperstown, N.Y./Cooperstown) came off the bench to record 13 points, including eight in the first half. Juniors Joanna Dobrovosky (Skaneateles, N.Y./Skaneateles) and Ellie Leszyk (Horseheads, N.Y./Horseheads) each posted 10 points, while Dobrovosky added six points and a pair of blocks.

Tianna Jackson led all players in the game with 19 points, including 13 after halftime, while dishing out five assists. Brielle Kelly recorded a double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds. Mary Kate Rumbaugh turned in 11 points and three steals.

The Dolphins the opened the game with four of the first six points in a low-scoring first quarter. The Mountaineers scored the next six points, led by three points from Rumbaugh. Millea got the Dolphins within one at the end of the quarter with a three-pointer with 29 seconds remaining.

Mansfield registered seven of the first nine points of the second quarter to take a 15-9 lead. Melanie Taylor hit a three-pointer before Micaiah Battle converted two foul shots and Kelly made a lay-up.

Le Moyne answered with 12 of the next 16 points to take a two-point advantage. Dobrovosky had four of the points, Leszyk buried a three-pointer, freshman forward Colleen Corcoran (Beverly, Mass./Bishop Fenwick) made a fast-break lay-up and Millea capped the streak with a three-pointer with 4:52 left in the half.

After five points from each team over the next two and one-half minutes, Mansfield closed out the half with a 6-2 run to take a 30-28 lead into halftime. Battle and Jackson drained three-pointers in the spurt around a jumper by Corcoran.

Mansfield took its largest lead of the game with the first six points of the third quarter. Melanie Taylor made a three-pointer and then Kelly registered a conventional three-point play.

The Dolphins got back within two with 5:17 left in the quarter with 12 of the next 18 points. Dobrovosky made a lay-up and then Demand and Leszyk recorded five straight points each.

Following four points from each team, Jackson hit a three-pointer and Jackson made two free throws for a 51-44 lead with 15 seconds left in the period. Junior forward Courtney Webster (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks East) made a lay-up at the buzzer to get the Dolphins within 51-46 heading in the final quarter.

After Mansfield pushed its lead to eight on a pair of occasions over the opening six minutes of the fourth quarter, the last of which came at 59-51 with 4:14 to play, the Dolphins started their comeback. Millea ignited the 12-3 run with a three-pointer and then Dobrovosky answered a Jackson free throw with a lay-up. Following a lay-up by Alyssa Mullins for a 62-56 Mansfield lead, Demand drained a three-pointer and converted two foul shots to get the Dolphins within one. Freshman guard McKayla Roberts (North Syracuse, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse) then converted a lay-up with 1:17 remaining to give the Dolphins a 63-62 edge.

Jackson tied the score at 63 with 1:08 to play, but neither team was able to get another shot off, sending the game to overtime.

Le Moyne took control of the overtime session with the first six points of the period. Roberts gave the Dolphins the lead with a jumper, Demand followed with a free throw and then Roberts connected on a three-pointer from the right wing.

Demand closed out the victory with four free throws around a Jackson lay-up in the final 41 seconds.

Le Moyne (7-4), which snapped a three-game losing streak, returns from a 10-day break at Queens College on Friday, December 30 at 4:00 p.m.