Syracuse, N.Y. – The Le Moyne College women's basketball clinched the second seed in the Southwest Division with a 55-42 victory over Pace University in Northeast-10 Conference action on Tuesday night at Ted Grant Court.
 
The Dolphins open play in the NE10 Championships on Sunday with a quarterfinal game at 2:00 p.m. against Bentley University, the third seed from the Northeast Division. The Dolphins and Falcons met in the NE10 title game last season, with the Dolphins winning 67-45.
 
Senior guard McKayla Roberts (North Syracuse, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse) led four Dolphins in double figures with 14 points, including six in the fourth quarter, while adding five rebounds and four assists. The game played is the 114th of Roberts' career, the most by a Dolphin without using a redshirt season (passing current volunteer assistant coach Corinne Poitevien's mark of 113). She also surpassed 4000 career minutes played with her fourth of the game. Sophomores Jenna Zimmerman (Adams, N.Y./South Jefferson) and Erin Fouracre (Loudonville, N.Y./Colonie Central) each recorded 12 points, while Zimmerman registered six rebounds and three blocks. With her third rebound of the game, Zimmerman became just the fourth Dolphin sophomore to grab at least 200 rebounds and the first to do so since Courtney Coryea '10 M'11 in 2007-08. Redshirt junior guard Liz Millea (Cooperstown, N.Y./Cooperstown) tallied 10 points, including eight in the second quarter.

Lauren Schetter led the Setters in the loss with 15 points, including 11 in the second quarter. Jackie DelliSanti led all players in the contest with 12 rebounds, including five offensive, while scoring nine points.

After DelliSanti started the game's scoring, the Dolphins scored seven straight points and 15 of the next 17 points to take control of the game. Fouracre drained two three-pointers in the span, while Zimmerman made a pair of lay-ups.

Italee Brown-Smikle closed out the scoring in the opening quarter with a three-pointer with 26 seconds left to get the Setters within 15-7 after 10 minutes of play.

The Dolphins doubled their lead with the first eight points of the second quarter. Millea had four of the points, while Fouracre made a lay-up and Zimmerman converted two foul shots.

Schetter scored six consecutive points to get the Setters within 23-13 with 2:55 left, but the Dolphins countered with a 9-3 spurt over 2:09 to push their lead back to 16. Roberts scored the first five points, while Millea posted the final four.

Schetter hit a three-pointer from the right wing as time expired in the half to get Pace within 32-19 at halftime.

Pace scored the first five points of the third quarter to cut its deficit to eight, while Le Moyne answered with a 6-2 spurt, including two lay-ups from Zimmerman off passes from Roberts, to push its margin back to 12.

The Setters used another 5-0 spurt to get within 38-31 with 3:35 left, but that's as close as they would get the remainder of the game.

Le Moyne scored the last four points of the quarter, including a right-wing three-pointer from Roberts, to take a 42-31 lead after three quarters.

The Dolphins tallied the first eight points of the fourth quarter to take their largest lead of the game at 50-31 with 5:56 to play. Roberts buried a pair of three-pointers around two free throws from senior forward Colleen Corcoran (Beverly, Mass./Bishop Fenwick), who appeared in her 110th career game, tied for the sixth-most in the program's history.

Pace answered with 11 of the next 12 points to get within single digits. Kelsey Quain scored the first five points and then Lauren Hackett knocked down a pair of three-pointers.

Fouracre made four free throws in the final 58 seconds to deliver the final score.