Garden City, N.Y. – Leonie Edringer and Jess Camarda combined for 47 points to lead Adelphi University to a 77-63 win over the Le Moyne College women's basketball team in Northeast-10 Conference action on Wednesday evening at the Center for Recreation and Sport.

Senior guard McKayla Roberts (North Syracuse, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse) led the Dolphins in the loss with 18 points, including seven in the first quarter and nine in the fourth quarter. Sophomore forward Emma Brinker (East Aurora, N.Y./East Aurora) was the only other Dolphin in double figures with 10 points, six of which came in the first quarter.

Edringer tallied a game-best 24 points, including 10 in each of the third and fourth quarters, while grabbing a nine rebounds. Camarda registered 23 points, including eight in the second quarter and 10 in the third. Julia Strachan came off the bench to score 14 points, including eight in the first quarter.

The Dolphins scored 10 of the game's first 13 points over the initial 4:18 to force an Adelphi timeout. Brinker had the first six points off three passes from Roberts, who followed with a jumper. Sophomore forward Jenna Zimmerman (Adams, N.Y./South Jefferson) capped the opening run with a lay-up at the 5:42 mark.

After the Dolphins took a 12-4 lead on a pair of free throws with 5:03 left, the Panthers scored 12 of the last 17 points to pull within 17-16 at the end of the quarter. Emma Cuccurullo started the run with a three-pointer, Strachan scored eight consecutive points and then Katie Murphy closed out the quarter with a foul shot.

Adelphi (8-0, 2-0 NE10) scored the first four points of the second quarter for its first lead of the contest, but the Dolphins countered with five in a row to take the lead back.

Following two more lead changes, which resulted in the Dolphins leading 26-25 with 2:39 left on a three-pointer by Zimmerman, the Panthers scored eight straight points to take the lead for good. Camarda hit a three-pointer for the lead and then scored five points at the 1:03 mark as she recorded a conventional three-point play and added two more free throws following a Le Moyne technical foul.

Zimmerman got the Dolphins back within five with 23 seconds left, but Edringer converted a jumper with six seconds left to put the Panthers up 35-28 at halftime.

After the teams alternated baskets to start the third quarter, the Panthers ran off a 13-2 streak to take a 53-34 lead with 4:49 to play. Edringer had six points in the stretch, Camarda had five and Murphy made a jumper.

The Dolphins got within 17 on a pair of occasions, but Camarda made a three-pointer with 1:13 to give Adelphi its first 20-point lead of the game.

Edringer made a lay-up with 49 seconds left to put the Panthers up 60-40 after three quarters of play.

Le Moyne scored 12 of the first 14 points of the fourth quarter to cut its deficit in half with 4:39 to go at 62-52. Roberts made a pair of three-pointers, senior forward Colleen Corcoran (Beverly, Mass./Bishop Fenwick) scored four points and freshman guard Lytoya Baker (Rochester, N.Y./Bishop Kearney) started the run with a put-back lay-up.

After the teams traded baskets over the next three and one-half minutes, Roberts made three free throws with 56 seconds left to get the Dolphins within eight (68-60), but that's as close as they would get.

The Panthers went 9-of-10 from the foul line over the final 54 seconds to seal the victory.
 
Le Moyne (4-4, 1-2 NE10), which has lost eight of its last nine games at Adelphi, is back in action at home on Saturday against Southern Connecticut State University at 1:00 p.m.