Garden City, N.Y. - On Friday, the top-seeded Adelphi University women's tennis team saw its quest for a conference title end in a 4-3 loss to No. 4 seed Le Moyne College in the semifinals of the 2019 Northeast-10 Conference Championship at the Adelphi Tennis Courts in Garden City.

With the score tied 3-3, Le Moyne's Marta Perez defeated Adelphi's Lea Baschanow in straight sets (7-6, 6-2) in the decisive fifth-singles match.

The Panthers (9-4) started out strong on the day, winning the team doubles point to jump out to a 1-0 lead. After Amanda Franstedt and Nicole Stay cruised to a 6-0 victory at No. 2 doubles, the tandem of Barbie Quagliardi and Nicole Kielan secured the first point of the match for the hosts with a 6-4 win in the top-doubles flight.

It was in singles where it all fell apart for Adelphi. The Panthers led in each of the six singles matches, but were unable to put the Dolphins (13-3) away.

In top singles, Quagliardi, the NE10 Player of the Year, suffered her first singles loss to a conference opponent since Sept. 22. She fell 6-4, 6-0 to Le Moyne's top-singles player, Birdem Oz.

Despite leading for much of the two sets she played, Kielan came out on the short end of a 7-5, 7-6 loss to Marta Nunez at No. 2 singles. Franstedt won her opening set, but dropped the next two in a 6-3, 4-6, 4-6 defeat at the hands of Francesca Lilligren in third singles.

Stay and Julia Kielan accounted for the two singles victories for Adelphi. Stay breezed to a 6-0, 6-4 win at No. 4 singles, which, at the time, gave the Panthers a 2-1 lead. Kielan evened the match at 3-3 with a 6-2, 6-1 victory in No. 6 singles.

The Panthers will return to action in the spring against University of the District of Columbia on Saturday, Apr. 11 at the Adelphi Tennis Courts. They will also await their fate for a possible at-large bid to the NCAA Division II Championship in May.