Syracuse, N.Y. – Three Dolphins each scored 14 points as the Le Moyne College women's basketball team registered its third straight win, 66-56, over the University of New Haven on Saturday afternoon in Northeast-10 Conference action at Ted Grant Court.
Graduate student forward
Corinne Poitevien (Bardonia, N.Y./Paramus Catholic (N.J.)) tallied her third double-double of the season with 14 points, including 12 in the second half, and 12 rebounds, including seven on the offensive end. Junior guard
McKayla Roberts (North Syracuse, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse) recorded 14 points and dished out seven assists. Redshirt sophomore guard
Liz Millea (Cooperstown, N.Y./Cooperstown) was the third Dolphin with 14 points, 11 of which came in the first half. Senior guard
Madison Purcell (Clifton Park, N.Y./Catholic Central) netted seven of her 11 points in the second half.
Micah Wormack led the Chargers in the loss with 13 points, including seven in the first half. Camryn DeBose turned in 12 points, including eight in the second half, and four rebounds.
After Purcell made a jumper to get the Dolphins within 6-5 with 5:23 left in the first quarter, the Chargers scored four straight points and seven of the next nine to take their largest lead of the game with 1:24 to go in the period. Wormack capped the streak with a conventional three-point play.
Roberts ended the scoring in the quarter with her second three-pointer of the period to get the Dolphins within 13-10.
Le Moyne scored five of the first seven points in the second quarter to tie the score for the first time. Purcell made a lay-up and then Millea drained her first of four three-pointers in the game.
The teams then exchanged the lead seven times over the final seven minutes of the quarter as the Dolphins took a 25-23 lead into halftime. Millea drilled two more three-pointers as she scored six of the team's final 10 points.
After the teams went back and forth over the opening 3:13 of the third quarter, which resulted in the Dolphins holding a 32-29 lead, the Dolphins rattled off a 9-1 run as part of scoring 17 of the last 22 points in the period. Poitevien scored the first four points, freshman guard
Cameron Tooley (Clifton Park, N.Y./Shenendehowa) tallied five straight points and then Purcell drained a pair of three-pointers around a lay-up by freshman forward
Emma Brinker (East Aurora, N.Y./East Aurora).
Following a lay-up by Katia Oge to start the scoring in the fourth quarter, Millea buried another three-pointer and Poitevien made a lay-up to give the Dolphins their largest lead of the game, 54-36, with 8:10 to play.
New Haven responded with an 11-2 run to get within single digits, but could not get any closer than nine. Wormack made a put-back lay-up, Sydney Richard connected on a pair of three-pointers to force a Le Moyne timeout and DeBose capped the streak with a three-pointer with 6:14 to go.
Le Moyne countered with six straight points to regain control of the game. Poitevien made a lay-up off a feed from Roberts, who then drilled a three-pointer and converted an ensuing free throw to push her team's lead to 15 with 4:31 remaining.
Le Moyne's lead was either 11 or 13 over the next four minutes before DeBose ended the game's scoring with a three-pointer.
Le Moyne (7-2, 4-2 NE10), which has won seven of its first nine games for the first time since the 2013-14 season, which was also the last time the Dolphins went 4-2 to start NE10 play, returns to the hardwood on Wednesday, December 19 against Daemen College at 1:00 p.m.