Garden City, N.Y. -- The Adelphi University field hockey team scored its third straight Northeast-10 Conference victory on Saturday afternoon, as three first-half goals powered them past the American International College Yellow Jackets, 3-1. 

The Panthers (6-3, 3-1 NE-10) handed the ninth-ranked Yellow Jackets (8-3, 4-1 NE-10) their first loss to an NE-10 opponent this season, avenging a 4-1 loss from non-conference play earlier this year.

Just 6:05 into the contest, freshman Elissa Frein scored her team-leading eighth goal of the season following pressure from the Adelphi attack on the Yellow Jackets' end of the field. On the third penalty corner of the early going for the Brown and Gold, AIC keeper Taylor Ross saved a pair of shots off the sticks of Samantha Nizich and Elizabeth Mercuri before Frein beat her to the right in the vacated cage to make it 1-0. 

After a pair of saves from Amanda Gargiulo down the other end, the Panthers made it a 2-0 game on their next offensive opportunity, as Lena Pollich fired a pass from the top of the circle past two AIC defenders to a wide open Mercuri for the goal. AIC got a goal back at the 21:08 mark in the half, as Jenny Holmquist took a Katelynn Leclerc pass into the vacated cage following a save to make it a one goal contest.

However, the Panther offense wasn't done in the opening half, as Emily Power returned to the starting lineup to score her fourth goal of the season with 10:28 remaining in the opener. The sophomore forward took a Mercuri pass into the cage after Taylor Ross vacated to stop a Jamie Ahrens shot to end the scoring in the first half, 3-1.

The first-half scoring proved to be all the offense either side would muster in the contest, as the two sides came up with just three shots apiece in the second half. The Yellow Jackets' best chance to score came just over two minutes into the second half, as consecutive shots from Chelsea Davis were stopped by Gargiulo and a defensive save off the stick of Rachel Colvin.

The Panthers return to action on Wednesday, Oct. 5 when they play host to Long Island rival LIU Post, the No. 1 team in the latest edition of the NFHCA Division II national rankings, at 7 pm.

NOTES
- Colvin, the 2015 NE-10 Defensive Player of the Year, was credited with her second defensive save of the season. 
- The Panthers kicked off a stretch where five of their next six games will be played at Motamed Field. 

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Adelphi University joined the Northeast-10 Conference in the fall of 2009 and in the past seven seasons, has collected 18 regular season conference titles, 22 tournament championships, 29 individual crowns and captured the Northeast-10 Presidents' Cup three times (2013, 2014, and 2016), while winning five NCAA Division II National Championships.

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