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Emily Miccile and Natalie Fekula
Chris Bergmann
50
Merrimack MERW 15-12
66
Winner Adelphi ADE 14-15
Merrimack MERW
15-12
50
Final
66
Adelphi ADE
14-15
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Merrimack MERW 5 12 20 13 50
Adelphi ADE 21 10 19 16 66

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Fekula Caps CRS Career in Style, Leads Women's Basketball to NE10 Quarterfinals

Garden City, N.Y. - In her last game inside the Center for Recreation and Sports, senior forward Natalie Fekula put in a career performance to lead the Adelphi University women's basketball team to a 66-50 win over Merrimack in the first round of the Northeast-10 Conference tournament. 

Fekula scored a career-best 16 points and hauled in 19 rebounds - also a career-high - to post her third double-double of the season and send the Panthers, the fourth-seeded team out of the Southwest Division, into a quarterfinal meeting at Northeast Division champions Stonehill College at 3 p.m. on Sunday. 

Fekula was joined in double figures for Adelphi (14-15) by Simone Hobdy, who scored 10 of her 16 points to help the Panthers to a 31-17 lead at halftime in a game in which they never trailed. Niajah Morgan chipped in 12 points, seven rebounds and three assists, while the first-year duo of Emily Miccile and Katie Murphy combined for 16 points and nine rebounds.

Adelphi ran out to a 13-0 lead in the first quarter, a run in which Hobdy scored six, as Merrimack missed its first 11 shots from the floor and the Panthers made five of their first six. Two threes from Fekula and Jess Camarda also helped Adelphi finish the first quarter strongly, as the Brown and Gold scored nine of the last 12 points to lead 22-5 after one.

The Panthers' lead from there stood in the high teens for much of the contest, but the Warriors (15-12), who were the fifth-seeded team out of the Northeast, made a push at the start of the third period. A 13-7 scoring run over the first 6:25 of the third period cut Adelphi's lead to eight at 38-30, but the Panthers responded in a big way by scoring 12 of the next 14 to wrestle back momentum.

In that run, Hobdy scored six, and Adelphi led by less than 10 for only one possession from then on.

Looking ahead to Sunday's conference quarterfinal, the Skyhawks are currently ranked No. 7 in this week's D2SIDA Top 25 Media Poll and 18th in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Division II poll and hold a record of 24-2. Stonehill defeated Adelphi, 73-55, in the lone regular-season meeting between the two teams this year, and the Skyhawks have won 15 straight games. 
About Adelphi Athletics
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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