St. Petersburg, Fla. – Graduate student forward Corinne Poitevien (Bardonia, N.Y./Paramus Catholic (N.J.)) scored 16 points in the second half to lead the Le Moyne College women's basketball team to a 68-56 victory over Eckerd College on Saturday afternoon on the second day of the Eckerd College Thanksgiving Classic at the McArthur Center.

Poitevien finished the contest with a game-high 18 points, including 10 in the third quarter, while grabbing seven rebounds. Junior guard McKayla Roberts (North Syracuse, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse) recorded 11 of her 14 points in the second half and dished out eight assists (against just one turnover).

Octavia Loll led the Tritons in the loss with 15 points. Abby Whiteye and Yarden Danan each posted 11 points, while Danan had a team-best seven rebounds.

The teams went back and forth over the opening five and one-half minutes of the game, resulting in a 10-10 tie with 4:44 to go. Freshman guard Cameron Tooley (Clifton Park, N.Y./Shenendehowa) nailed a pair of three-pointers to account for six of the points.

The Dolphins then scored five straight points in a span of 46 seconds. Freshman forward Jenna Zimmerman (Adams, N.Y./South Jefferson) beat the shot clock with a jumper in the paint off a feed from Roberts, who followed with a three-pointer off a pass from Zimmerman.

The Tritons countered with five consecutive points of their own to even the score at 15 at the end of the first quarter. Loll accounted for all five points with a lay-up and three free throws.

After Tooley gave the Dolphins a 20-17 lead with 5:48 left in the second quarter with a three-pointer, Eckerd scored six straight points to take a three-point lead of its own with 3:34 remaining. Whiteye, Armi Anttila and Haeli Howard each made shots in the paint for the Tritons.

Following mini spurts by each team, freshman guard Erin Fouracre (Loudonville, N.Y./South Colonie) drained a three-pointer with 1:46 left to give the Dolphins a 28-27 lead, which they took into halftime.

The Tritons scored the first six points of the second half and eight of the first 10 to take a 36-30 lead with 7:28 left in the third. Chelsea Johnson and Loll made three-pointers for a 33-28 lead. Following two free throws by Poitevien, Danan drained a three-pointer of her own.

Following alternating free throws from Roberts and Johnson, the Dolphins rattled off 19 of the next 22 points to take control of the game. Zimmerman, Fouracre and Poitevien each made a shot to knot the score at 38 with 4:29 to go. Whiteye made a free throw to put the Tritons back in front, but Fouracre countered with a lay-up and Poitevien followed with a jumper in the paint. Whiteye made two more free throws before the Dolphins closed out the quarter with nine straight points. Roberts recorded a conventional three-point play and then Poitevien recorded a pair of baskets around a lay-up by Zimmerman.

Eckerd scored seven of the first nine points in the fourth quarter to cut its deficit in half. Three Tritons scored in the span, which was capped by a three-pointer by Danan.

Poitevien answered with a jumper and Roberts followed with a three-pointer to give the Dolphins a 10-point lead again.

Eckerd tallied six of the next eight points to get within 60-54 with 3:51 left, but the Dolphins scored eight of the last 10 to put the game away. Roberts and senior guard Madison Purcell (Clifton Park, N.Y./Catholic Central) drilled three-pointers around two free throw by Loll before Zimmerman finished off the game's scoring with two foul shots.

Le Moyne (4-1) returns to Northeast-10 Conference action on Wednesday at The College of Saint Rose at 5:30 p.m.