Box Score

Garden City, N.Y. – The #7 Adelphi men's basketball team's season ended with a 67-57 loss to the #10 Golden Knights of the College of Saint Rose on Friday night at the Center for Recreation and Sports in the opening round of the Northeast-10 Tournament. The Panthers 2013 campaign comes to a close with a 14-15 overall record, while Saint Rose improves to 14-13 overall and will travel to face the #2 Assumption College Greyhounds in the quarterfinals.
 
The Panthers were led by a trio of seniors playing their last game in a Panther uniform. Chris Ranglin led the team with 14 points and fell just short of a double-double with nine rebounds. Cliff Brown and John Calarco each chipped in with 13 points in the losing effort. The Brown and Gold won the battle on the boards, out-rebounding the visitors 41-40 which included an impressive 17 offensive grabs.
 
For the Golden Knights, Andre Pope led all scorers with 23 points while Tyler Sayre added 16 behind a 7-8 shooting performance from the field. Dominykas Milka grabbed a game him nine boards to go along with his eight points while Kareem Thomas did his part with eight points as well. As a team, St. Rose shot 46.2 percent from the floor, connecting on 24 of 52 attempts.
 
A two-point jumper from Brown at the 18:33 mark in the opening half was Adelphi's only field goal in the first nine minutes of action. They missed nine straight attempts from the floor while St. Rose pushed out to an 18-2 lead. It was not until the 11:23 mark when the Panthers saw their second field goal which was scored by Ranglin to make it an 18-4 affair.
 
The Brown and Gold pulled within 11 with the clock showing 10:18 as a result of a converted three-point play by Calarco but would get no closer in the half. St. Rose built an 18 point cushion in the latter stages of the half and would head into halftime with a 34-16 lead on the Panthers.
 
After a made free throw from Pope and a jumper by Milka, the Panthers found themselves down by 19 points in the early stages of the final frame. Over the next 2:26, Ranglin accounted for six of Adelphi's 10 points and held the Albany based squad to just a single free throw, cutting the deficit to 10 at 38-28. Using the momentum from the 10-1 run, back to back layups from Calarco and Bradley Simpson brought Adelphi to within seven points.
 
After a St. Rose timeout, six straight points from Sayre brought the visitors' lead back to double figures, 49-36, with 8:29 remaining.
 
Efforts from Kareem Thomas and Pope blossomed the point differential to 16 once again with 6:27 to go. An 11-4 run for the Brown and Gold, capped by a trey from Anthony Libroia, pulled Adelphi back within 10, 61-51 with 3:02 to go.
 
However, as time ran down, the Panthers would get no closer and see their season end with a 57-67 loss.