Manchester, N.H. - The Adelphi University women's basketball team headed up north for its first road contest of 2018 on Saturday afternoon, but saw its three-game win streak snapped by the host Hawks of Saint Anselm College, 67-56.

For the second straight game, Adelphi (8-8, 4-4 NE10) was anchored by junior guard Niajah Morgan, who tied a season-high with 17 points, adding six rebounds, three assists and three steals. Sophomore Fallyn Stephens also tallied double figures with 10, while freshman point guard Katie Murphy added five points, five assists and three steals.

The Hawks were anchored in large part by the first-half double-double from 6-6 sophomore forward Shannon Ryan, a transfer from Boston College. Ryan recorded 11 points, 11 rebounds and three blocks over the first 20 minutes, finishing the contest with 16 points, 19 boards and four blocks. On the perimeter, Ali Gannon sank four three pointers en route to 14 points, while Clairee Putnam took care of her opportunities at the free throw line, going a perfect 10-for-10 to contribute to her game-high 18 points.

The first half was one of runs, and Saint Anselm (9-7, 5-4 NE10) wrestled early control of the game with a 12-0 streak in the first quarter after Adelphi scored the first five points of the game. Trailing by five at the start of the second, the Brown and Gold authored an 11-2 run of its own, in which Morgan totaled seven straight points, to take the lead back at 23-19 and force a Saint Anselm timeout with 6:40 on the clock.

Out of the break, however, the Hawks regained control, using another 13-0 run over the next four-plus minutes to restore its lead, and led by a half-high 10 at 35-25 with eight seconds on the clock. With Natalie Fekula on the bench with foul trouble, freshman forward Maeve MacNeill was pressed into season-high action, and the 6-3 big drained a three from Katie Murphy at the buzzer to put Adelphi in the locker room trailing by seven.

After scoring nine of the first 11 points of the third on buckets from Morgan, Fekula and five points from Stephens, Adelphi made it a one-possession game twice, but a 15-5 run over the final 6:37 of the third period by Saint Anselm kept Adelphi at arms length for the rest of the game.

The Panthers took care of the basketball over the contest, turning it over just eight times compared to Saint Anselm's 16 for a 20-6 advantage in points off turnovers, but the hosts' 47-34 advantage in rebounding - thanks in large part to the size advantage for Ryan in the paint - saw them have a 12-4 advantage in second-chance points.

The Panthers next travel to North Andover, Mass. for a 5:30 p.m. Northeast-10 Conference at Merrimack College on Jan. 9. 

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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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