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Easton, Mass. - The Adelphi University women's basketball team succumbed to a 48-point second half outburst by #15 Stonehill College, falling 82-69 at Merkert Gymnasium on Tuesday. The Panthers, losers of six straight and still seeking to match last year's Northeast-10 Conference win total, are 9-9 overall and 6-8 in league play, while the Skyhawks improve to 16-2 overall and 12-2 in the NE-10.
Adelphi built an early lead and held a 37-34 advantage at halftime, but the hosts shot 50 percent from the field to the Panthers' chilly 28.6 percent second half mark and posted 48 posts in the last 20 minutes to run away with the victory.
Junior
Jessica Kitrys scored a game-high 27 points on 9-17 shooting, sinking 9-10 free throws and finishing within a point of her career high mark.
Sade Jackson and
Kelly Mannix each chipped in 12 points, while Jackson dished out five assists to close within nine assists of tying Adelphi's single record of 158 set by Jeanne Miller in 1990.
For Stonehill, Mary Louise Dixon posted 23 points, 13 of which came from the foul line, and earned a double-double with 13 rebounds. Asia Ewing and Tori Faieta each tallied 15 points and joined Dixon in the double-double column with 10 and 11 rebounds, respectively. The Skyhawks pulled down 44 rebounds to Adelphi's 31 including 30 boards on the defensive end.
The Panthers marched out to a 10-3 lead in the first three minutes of play on two buckets each for Jackson and
Jenna Halaby, but Stonehill answered with a 12-2 run to work a 15-12 advantage. The teams traded the lead several times with neither team able to move ahead by more than four points at a time, and a Kitrys layup with 36 seconds left put Adelphi up by three at the half.
Adelphi held a narrow lead for the first five minutes of the second half, but the Skyhawks used a 12-0 run to seize a lead they would never surrender. The Panthers crept within a bucket several times, pulling within two (51-49) on a Mannix 3-pointer with 12:14 to play, within one (54-53) on a Kitrys layup at the 10:56 mark, and within one twice more on pairs of free throws by Jackson and Kitrys. Despite the unrelenting Adelphi attack, Stonehill held off the visitors and sped away with a double digit lead in the final five minutes.
The Panthers will aim to get back in the win column on Saturday when they host Saint Anselm College in NE-10 action at 1:30 p.m.
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