Nov. 24, 2009

Box Score

Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi University men's basketball team played host to Northeast-10 conference foe the College of St. Rose in their home opener on Tuesday, November 24. The Panthers opened the game with a 12-3 run and never looked back, holding St. Rose to 37 percent shooting for the game, collecting a 68-49 victory. With the win Adelphi improves to 4-0 overall and 2-0 in the NE-10, while St. Rose falls to 1-3 overall and remains win less in conference play at 0-3.

Richard Byrd led the way for Adelphi, scoring a team-high 16 points and grabbing a team-high eight misses, while Chris Diasparra joined Byrd in double figures with 14 points. Casey Cosgrove also had a strong all-around game, scoring nine points, handing out six assists and collecting three misses to go along with three steals.

Adelphi opened the game on a 12-3 run that was capped by a David Akinyooye jumper at the 15 minute mark. St. Rose clawed back within four, 12-8, but the Panthers used a 15-5 run that was opened with two Steffon Farley free throws and closed with a Diasparra triple to push the bulge to 15, 28-13 with 8:28 on the clock.

Diasparra would give Adelphi their biggest lead of the half on a jumper that made the count, 39-20, before a Jermaine Clark three clipped Adelphi's edge to 39-23 at the half.

St. Rose got as close as 10 in the second frame, when Andre Pope buried a three pointer to make the score 45-35 with 15 minutes remaining. However, that was as close as the Golden Knights would get as Adelphi used a 15-4 run to take a 21-point advantage, 60-39, on a Cosgrove triple with 7:50 remaining to put the game out of reach.

Adelphi returns to action on Sunday, November 29 when they travel to Worcester, Massachusetts for a 3:30 pm meeting with Assumption.