Dec. 14, 2005

Box Score

Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi men's basketball team extended their win streak to three games by holding visiting NYIT to just 33 percent shooting for the game and forcing 22 turnovers. With the 72-48 win the Panthers improved to 6-3 overall and 4-1 in conference play, while NYIT slipped to 1-6 overall and 1-3 in NYCAC action.

Adelphi and NYIT exchanged the lead seven times in the first 15 minutes of a tightly contested early battle. The Bears crept out to a four-point lead twice only to see Adelphi reel them back in.

With 5:48 to play in the half the game was knotted at 22 apiece until Adelphi closed the half with a 12-3 run to enter the locker room with a hard fought nine-point cushion. Donnell Cummings (South Ozone Park, N.Y.) and Jamaal Wagner (Jamaica, N.Y.) accounted for eight of Adelphi 12 points during the run, giving the Panthers a 34-25 lead at the half.

Adelphi blew the game wide-open in the first six and a half minutes of the second half. The Panthers used five straight three-pointers, including getting three from Kimani Blaize (Brooklyn, N.Y.) to take a 49-30 lead with 13:35 to play.

The Panthers kept the pressure on, creating a lead of 30 points on two occasions, the last coming with 3:25 to play on a jumper by Sean Corrigan (Hicksville, N.Y.) that gave Adelphi a 68-38 lead.

Alex Kvitnitsky (Tel-Aviv, Israel) was the only Bear in double-figures with 14 points. Teammate Jermain Stokes pulled down a game-high 12 rebounds.

Cummings led the Panthers with 17 points on 7-9 shooting, including 3-4 from beyond the arc, he also chipped in six rebounds. Blaize and Wagner were also in double-figures with 12 and 10 points respectively.

The Panthers return to action on Saturday, December 17 when they play host to Assumption at 3:00 pm in Woodruff Hall.