Garden City, N.Y. – Niajah Morgan led five players in double figures as top-seeded Adelphi University rallied for a 67-57 victory over the Le Moyne College women's basketball team in the Northeast-10 Conference Championships semifinals on Thursday night at the Center for Recreation and Sport.

Le Moyne finishes its season with a 15-13 record after appearing in the conference semifinals for the second time in the program's 21 years in the conference.

Adelphi, which improves to 25-4, advances to the NE10 championship game for the third time in four years. The Panthers will host Bentley University, the Northeast Division's top seed, on Sunday at 1:00 p.m.

Senior guard Ailayia Demand (Watervliet, N.Y./Watervliet) led the Dolphins offensively in her final collegiate game with 13 points, seven of which came in the third quarter, while adding four assists. Junior forward Joanna Dobrovosky (Skaneateles, N.Y./Skaneateles) and freshman guard McKayla Roberts (North Syracuse, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse) each tallied 11, with Dobrovosky scoring 10 of her points in the first quarter.

Morgan registered a game-best 19 points, nine of which she scored in the second quarter. Simone Hobdy and Calli Balfour each recorded double-doubles in the comeback victory. Hobdy scored 14 points and a grabbed a game-high 14 rebounds, while Balfour posted 10 points, 12 rebounds (seven offensive), five steals and four assists. Sierra Clark turned in 13 points and nine rebounds, while Sierra Schrader tallied 11 points.

After Hobdy started the game's scoring, the Dolphins rattled off nine straight points. Roberts made a three-pointer and Dobrovosky, junior forward Nicole Riddick (Albany, N.Y./Colonie/UMass Lowell) and Demand followed with lay-ups in a span of 1:16.

Following back-and-forth action that was capped by Morgan's first three-pointer of the game to get the Panthers within 17-9 with 2:52 left in the opening quarter, the Dolphins scored the final eight points of the period. Dobrovosky scored the first six points and then Riddick made a lay-up to give the Dolphins a 25-9 lead.

After a three-point play by Hobdy got the Panthers within 31-17 with 6:32 left in the second quarter, freshman guard Liz Millea (Cooperstown, N.Y./Cooperstown) drained a three-pointer and made a lay-up to give the Dolphins a 19-point lead with 5:40 to go in the half.

Adelphi answered with 12 straight points and 16 of the last 17 points of the half to get within 37-33 at halftime. Morgan and Schrader knocked down three-pointers, Hobdy made two free throws, Balfour converted a fast-break lay-up and then Hobdy made a jumper. Following a Dobrovosky free throw, Morgan nailed another three-pointer and Hobdy completed the half's scoring with a foul shot.

Riddick started the scoring in the second half with a lay-up, but the Panthers responded with eight consecutive points to take the lead. Morgan and Clark each accounted for four points.

Following baskets by Demand and Morgan, the Dolphins got five straight points from Demand and a put-back lay-up by freshman forward Colleen Corcoran (Beverly, Mass./Bishop Fenwick) to take a 48-43 lead.

Clark countered with five points over three possessions to knot the score at 48 at the end of the third quarter.

Demand made a free throw 16 seconds into the fourth quarter, but that would be Le Moyne's last lead of the game. Balfour made a jumper three and one-half minutes later to give her team the lead and Clark followed with a lay-up.

After Demand got the Dolphins back within one with a lay-up, Schrader hit three-pointers 1:51 apart to put the Panthers up by seven, 58-51, with 1:34 remaining.

Roberts answered with a three-pointer, but Adelphi scored the next five points. Hobdy made two free throws with 34 seconds left, Balfour followed with a fast-break lay-up and Morgan made a free throw with 16 seconds left. Roberts nailed another three-pointer one second later, but the Panthers closed out the game with two free throws from Schrader and a lay-up by Balfour.