Syracuse, N.Y. – Senior guard McKayla Roberts (North Syracuse, N.Y./Cicero-North Syracuse) drained a left-wing three-pointer with 8.1 seconds remaining to give the Le Moyne College women's basketball team the lead en route to a 54-51 victory over Bentley University in the quarterfinals of the Northeast-10 Conference Championships on Sunday afternoon at Ted Grant Court.

With the victory, the Dolphins advance to the NE10 semifinals for the fourth straight year, the longest active streak in the conference, and will take on the Northeast Division's top seed, Stonehill College, on Thursday at 7:00 p.m. in Easton, Massachusetts. The Dolphins and Skyhawks met in the 2018 NE10 semifinals in Easton, with Stonehill prevailing 58-55.

Roberts finished with a game-high 24 points, 10 of which came in the fourth quarter, while adding four rebounds and three assists. With the game played, Roberts ties Courtney Coryea '10 M'11 and Corinne Poitevien '18 M'19 for the most games played in the program's history with 115. Redshirt junior guard Liz Millea (Cooperstown, N.Y./Cooperstown) recorded seven of her 13 points in the third quarter. Forwards Jenna Zimmerman (Adams, N.Y./South Jefferson) and Colleen Corcoran (Beverly, Mass./Bishop Fenwick) each grabbed nine rebounds, while Zimmerman scored eight points and Corcoran had seven in her 111th career game, tied with Alex Marple '15 for the fifth-most in the program's history.

Monica Viapiano led the Falcons in the loss with 18 points, including 10 points in the first quarter and six in the second quarter, while adding six rebounds. Megan Lewis posted 11 points and grabbed a team-high seven rebounds.

After the teams traded baskets to start the game, Roberts and Millea made jump shots to give the Dolphins their largest lead of the game, 8-4, with 6:05 left in the opening quarter.

Bentley countered with 10 straight points to open up a six-point lead. Viapiano scored five of the points in the span, while Katie Meriggioli hit a jumper and Kari Brekke capped the streak with a three-pointer.

Roberts and Millea combined for the next four points, while Viapiano closed the scoring in the quarter with a free throw for a 15-12 lead after 10 minutes.

After Lewis started the scoring in the second quarter, Roberts made a three-pointer and a lay-up to knot the score at 17.

Bentley answered with nine consecutive points for its largest lead of the game. Viapiano scored the first four points, Lewis made a three-pointer and then Viapiano made a lay-up for a 26-17 lead with 4:30 left in the half.

The Dolphins responded with eight straight points to get back within a point. Roberts recorded a conventional three-point play, Zimmerman buried a three-pointer and Corcoran converted a lay-up to make it 26-25 with 52 seconds left.

Maddy Springfield ended the half's scoring with a three-pointer with 43 seconds left to put the Falcons up 29-25 at the intermission.

Lewis made a three-pointer to start the third quarter's scoring, while Roberts and Millea answered with lay-ups to get the Dolphins within 32-29 with 5:37 left.

Bentley answered with eight of the next 10 points to take another nine-point lead. Meriggioli scored six of the points around a lay-up by Viapiano, her only points of the second half.

Millea and Zimmerman each drilled three-pointers in the final 55 seconds of the quarter to get the Dolphins within 40-37 after 30 minutes of play.

Kolleen Bouchard made a lay-up and Lewis followed with a three-pointer to push Bentley's lead back to eight, 45-37, with 8:50 to play.

Le Moyne countered with seven consecutive points to cut its deficit to one. Roberts made back-to-back lay-ups before Corcoran drained a three-pointer from the top-of-the key.

Brekke recorded a conventional three-point play and buried a three-pointer around a trifecta by Roberts to give Bentley a 51-47 lead with 4:18 to play, but the Falcons would not score the rest of the game.

Millea answered with a lay-up on the next possession to get the Dolphins within 51-49 with 4:08 left, but those were the final points until Roberts' three-pointer.

In the interim, the Dolphins missed two shots and had two turnovers, while Bentley had four turnovers and a missed lay-up.

After Bentley committed a foul with 13 seconds left, Roberts drilled a three-pointer from the deep left wing with 8.1 seconds left off a pass from the top-of-the-key by sophomore guard Erin Fouracre (Loudonville, N.Y./Colonie Central).

Following a Le Moyne foul with 6.1 seconds left, Viapiano was whistled for pushing off Zimmerman on the ensuing in-bounds pass, giving the ball back to the Dolphins.

Two fouls later, Corcoran went to the foul line with 2.6 seconds left and converted both free throws for the three-point advantage.

Brekke was able to get off a three-pointer from the left wing as time expired, but the shot clanged off the rim.