North Andover, Mass. – Merrimack College had four players in double figures en route to a 68-48 victory over the Le Moyne College women's basketball team on Saturday afternoon in Northeast-10 Conference action at Bert Hammel Court.

Junior forward Joanna Dobrovosky (Skaneateles, N.Y./Skaneateles) and freshman guard Liz Millea (Cooperstown, N.Y./Cooperstown) led the Dolphins in the loss with nine points each.

Lexi Martin and Hannah Neild led the Warriors in the victory with 16 points and four rebounds each. My'Asia Alston registered 14 points, four assists and four steals, while Denia Davis-Stewart posted a double-double of 13 points and 10 rebounds to go along with three blocked shots.

The Warriors open the game with the first four points and held a nine-point lead (13-4) less than six minutes into the contest. Five Warriors accounted for the 13 points, including four of the first six from Martin.

Dobrovosky got the Dolphins within 13-6 with a lay-up, but the Warriors closed out the first quarter with an 11-4 run to double their lead. Davis-Stewart scored the first seven points, Alyssa Torres followed with a lay-up and Alston capped the quarter's scoring with a lay-up with five seconds left for a 24-10 lead.

After the teams traded baskets in the first minute of the second quarter, Merrimack tallied 13 of the next 15 points to take its first 25-point lead of the game. Six Warriors scored in the stretch, led by three-pointers from Neild and Torres.

Junior forward Courtney Webster (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks East) beat the buzzer to get the Dolphins within 39-16 at halftime.

The teams alternated points in the third quarter for the first seven minutes before Martin scored four points in a span of 75 seconds to give Merrimack its largest lead of the game, 51-23, with 1:57 left in the quarter.

Millea and Neild traded three-pointers in the last 97 seconds of the period as the Warriors took a 54-26 lead into the final quarter.

The Dolphins, who overcame a 23-point deficit to defeat the Warriors in the first round of the 2015 Northeast-10 Conference Championship (61-58), tallied the first 14 points of the fourth quarter to cut their deficit in half. Junior forward Corinne Poitevien (Bardonia, N.Y./Paramus Catholic (N.J.)) and freshman forward Colleen Corcoran (Beverly, Mass./Bishop Fenwick) each scored four points in the span, while Millea and classmate McKayla Roberts (North Syracuse, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse) each drained three-pointers.

Merrimack responded with seven straight points and 14 of the next 17 to put the game away. Martin had six of the 14 points, while Neild added five.

Corcoran (2) and Millea (3) combined for the game's final five points.


Le Moyne (9-7, 5-5 NE10) returns home to face Saint Michael's College on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.