Feb. 13, 2007

Box Score

Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi men's basketball team shot 67 percent in the second half and outscored visiting Queens College, 58-43, to erase a three-point halftime deficit and come away with a 96-84 victory. The win stretches Adelphi's current win streak to three games and raises their overall mark to 13-10, while improving their conference record to 10-6. The loss drops Queens to 11-12 overall and 8-8 in the East Coast Conference.

Queens took control early in the first half, sprinting out to a 5-2 lead on back-to-back Hassan Washington buckets. Adelphi responded by taking the lead twice in the early going before a Queens, 10-4 spurt gave the Knights an 18-13 advantage with 13:23 left in the first half.

The Knights widened their margin to seven at the 8:18 mark on a Lance Hazel three-pointer only to watch it shrink to two points, 28-26, with 6:59 to playing the first half, thanks to an Adelphi 5-0 run that included four straight points from Alvin Vivican. However, Queens would pull away again, outscoring Adelphi 13-7, over the next four and a half minutes to take a commanding 41-33 lead with 1:23 remaining in the first half.

A Mike Mosby lay-up with 1:12 on the clock pulled the Panthers within six and a Kimani Blaize deep three-pointer as time expired made the margin just three points, 41-38, at the half.

Adelphi and Queens opened the second half trading baskets until a Donnell Cummings lay-up with 15:25 left in the game gave the Panthers their first lead since 17:03 in the first half, 51-50. From there it was all Adelphi as the Panthers out scored Queens, 20-4, over the next six minutes to put the game away, 71-54.

Hazel led the way for Queens with 25 points and 13 rebounds, while Bradd Wierzbicki chipped in 21 points. Washington also reached double figures, scoring 16 points.

Blaize paced the Panther attack with a career-high 29 points and added five assists, while teammates Mosby, Cummings and Anthony Noble scored 19, 16 and 14 points.

The Panthers return to action on Thursday, February 15 when they play host to Dowling College at 7:30 pm.