Garden City, N.Y. - In the first of four games over the next week, the Adelphi University women's basketball team used a dominant offensive display to take down the Firebirds of the University of the District of Columbia at the Center for Recreation and Sport, 90-62.

Four of Adelphi's five starters scored in double figures for the contest, while 11 of the 12 players who saw minutes put in at least one basket. Simone Hobdy tied a season and career-high with a game-leading 20 points on 9-14 shooting, while adding five steals, three rebounds and three assists.

Niajah Morgan and Emily Miccile each chipped in 14, doing work in opposite halves, with the junior captain scoring 12 in the first half and the freshman forward adding nine in the second.

Rounding out Adelphi's scoring quartet was Natalie Fekula, who chipped in 11 points and a team-high eight rebounds. The Panthers' fifth starter, Jess Camarda, facilitated the squad's highest-scoring game of the season thus far with eight of the team's 21 assists, while freshman Morgan Staab posted a season-best six points and five rebounds in 13 minutes of bench action.

Adelphi (4-2) had not reached the 90-point plateau since the NCAA switched its women's basketball format to four quarters from two halves ahead of the 2015-16 season. The Panthers scored 90 points or more three times in the 2014-15 season, with the last coming in a 93-74 victory over Merrimack College on Jan. 24, 2015.

Adelphi trailed just twice in the contest, at 3-0 and 5-3 in the first quarter, and took the lead for good on a Morgan bucket (16-14) with 3:09 on the clock in the first period.

Morgan had her most effective minutes of the game from that point until the first quarter buzzer, scoring all 10 of Adelphi's points to help build a 24-15 at the close of the first 10 minutes.

The Panthers opened the second period on a 10-0 run, anchored by six points from Hobdy and buckets from both Fekula and Mali Klorczyk, building a double-figure lead which would hardly shrink for the remainder of the contest. The Brown and Gold led by as much as 36 late in the fourth quarter, as Courtney Thrun and Fallyn Stephens scored for two and three, respectively, before the game ended.

The Brown and Gold have a quick turnaround for more non-conference action this week, as they host the Devils of the University of the Sciences at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 28. The Devils were ranked No. 18 in the latest edition of the WBCA Division II Women's Basketball Coaches' Poll.

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Adelphi University joined the Northeast-10 Conference in the fall of 2009, and in the past eight seasons, has collected 25 regular season conference titles, 26 tournament championships, 33 individual crowns and captured the Northeast-10 Presidents' Cup four times (2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017), while winning six NCAA Division II National Championships.

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