Flushing, N.Y. – MacKenzie Rowland registered a double-double to lead Queens College to a 70-56 victory over the Le Moyne College women's basketball team on Friday afternoon in non-conference action at FitzGerald Gymnasium.

Junior guard Ellie Leszyk (Horseheads, N.Y./Horseheads) tied her career high with 13 points, while adding a career-best five rebounds and three steals. Sophomore guard Madison Purcell (Clifton Park, N.Y./Catholic Central) came off the bench to tie her career high with 12 points, all of which came in the second half. Junior forward Joanna Dobrovosky (Skaneateles, N.Y./Skaneateles) also tallied 12 points, with six coming in each half.

Rowland, a fifth-year senior, led the Knights with 28 points, including 17 in the first half, and 15 rebounds, including nine in the second half. Madison Rowland, a true senior, recorded 15 points, eight rebounds and four blocks. Merrick Rowland, a junior, came off the bench to post four points, three rebounds and two steals. The three Rowlands are the younger sisters of former Dolphin Morgan Rowland '12, who tallied 506 points and grabbed 167 rebounds in three seasons at Le Moyne. Central New York natives Melissa Fumano (West Genesee '14) and Beth Bonin (Cicero-North Syracuse '16) tallied eight and six points, respectively, in the win for the Knights.

After the teams split the first 16 points of the game over 3:19, the Knights tallied 15 of the last 21 points of the first quarter. Fumano started the run with a jumper, MacKenzie Rowland tallied eight of the points and Bonin closed out the scoring in the quarter with a three-pointer with six seconds left for a 23-14 advantage.

Queens extended its lead by recording a 15-9 scoring advantage in the second quarter for a 38-23 halftime lead. The Knights scored the first four points of the quarter before the Dolphins responded with five straight points to get back within eight. MacKenzie Rowland tallied five of the points and Madison Rowland had four as the Knights tallied nine of the game's next 11 points.

After Queens pushed out to a 19-point lead with eight of the first 12 points of the third quarter, the Dolphins rattled off a 17-6 run to get back within single digits, 52-44, at the end of the quarter. Leszyk started the comeback with a three-pointer, Purcell converted five free throws in the span, junior forward Nicole Riddick (Albany, N.Y./Colonie/UMass Lowell) drained a three-pointer and then freshman forward Colleen Corcoran (Beverly, Mass./Bishop Fenwick) completed the run with a conventional three-point play.

After the teams traded baskets to start the final quarter, Queens put the game away with a 9-0 run. Madison Rowland had five of the points in the span. The Dolphins were able to get within 13 (68-55) on a three-pointer by Purcell with 1:30 remaining, but Le Moyne's only other point the remainder of the game came on a free throw by Leszyk with 21 seconds left.

Le Moyne (7-5), which finishes non-conference play with a 4-2 record, returns to Northeast-10 Conference action on Wednesday against Stonehill College at 5:00 p.m.