Garden City, N.Y. - The 2019-20 season marked our 10th year in the NE10, and to celebrate that milestone, the Adelphi University Department of Athletics is looking back on some of its most iconic moments and accomplishments with the conference.

In 2016, the Adelphi men's soccer team experienced a number of firsts.

It earned its first national ranking since its 2013 return to Division II status. The Panthers also had their first NE10 Player, Defensive Player and Coach of the Year.

Coming off a year in which it fell a win shy of its first NE10 crown, Adelphi won a program-record 19 games and posted an unbeaten 12-0-1 mark against conference opponents in the regular season.

A season-opening loss to LIU Post was the only blemish on the team's 2016 resumé for over two months.

In what became a school-record 21-game unbeaten streak (longest since 1975), the Panthers did not concede a goal over their first seven games.

In fact, Adelphi chalked up a shutout in a school-record 14 of its 22 matches that season. The team's .640 shutout percentage was the second-highest of any squad in Division II. Spenser Powell's .868 save percentage was unmatched by any other goalkeeper in the country.

A combined four of those clean sheets came in the NE10 and NCAA postseason tournaments.

After running away with its first-ever NE10 regular-season title, Adelphi allowed a combined two shots on goal in shutouts of Southern Connecticut State and Franklin Pierce in the NE10 quarterfinal and semifinal rounds, respectively.

The Panthers were returning to the NE10 Tournament final.

Still in search of its first conference championship, the NE10 Tournament's Most Outstanding Player, Joseph Sanchez, brought Adelphi back from a 1-0 second-half deficit with a pair of goals to defeat Le Moyne for NE10 supremacy, 2-1.

In the NCAA Tournament, the Panthers reached the East Region final for the first time, but had to get past a familiar opponent in LIU Post.

The Pioneers had Adelphi's number recently -- a 3-0-1 record in four meetings since 2013 -- and home-field advantage.

Adelphi's offense exploded though, scoring four goals (two in each half) and outshooting its opposition 17-9 to land on the doorstep of the Final Four.

The Panthers were regional champions for the first time since 1975, when the team captured its only national championship.

Head Coach Carlo Acquista's squad met No. 4 Charleston (W. Va.) -- the Atlantic Region champion -- in the national quarterfinals.

Despite falling into an early 2-0 hole, Adelphi evened the score in thrilling fashion with two goals in the final 10 minutes of regulation.

The match headed into a penalty-kick shootout to decide the advancing team. Of the two squads, Charleston converted on all five of its opportunities, ultimately ending Adelphi's season.

Since their historic 2016 campaign, the Panthers have won four straight NE10 regular-season championships and captured two NE10 Tournament titles (2016, 2018).

Adelphi won another NCAA Division II East Region Championship and returned to the national quarterfinals in 2018, but fell to West Chester, 2-0.