Garden City, N.Y. - The No. 14 Adelphi University softball team is at the top of the heap once again, winning the 2023 NE10 regular-season title Thursday with a pair of victories over the College of Saint Rose at Janet L. Ficke Field.

Following Tuesday's first-round action, the Panthers will welcome the remaining tournament field to Long Island for a second-consecutive year.

With a single-elimination format, the 2023 NE10 Championship is set to come to Janet L. Ficke Field from May 4-6. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for senior citizens and youth under the age of eighteen. All NE10 students with a valid ID will be admitted for free.

Last May, Adelphi -- for the second time in its history -- raised the NE10 Championship trophy on its own field, after Ashley Lombardi's walk-off heroics in the 10th inning of a 2-0 win against Saint Anselm College.

Game 1: Adelphi 1, Saint Rose 0 - F/9
In a game that went nine innings and lasted over two hours, Lindsey Hibbs' masterful season continued to display itself.

Hibbs brought a perfect game into extra innings, retiring 21 in a row with twenty strikeouts to tie her career-high from a perfect outing at UNC Pembroke on Feb. 22.

Entering tomorrow's regular-season finale, Hibbs stands on the doorstep of breaking the school and conference's single-season strikeout records.

While she lost the perfecto in the ninth, Hibbs' 25 strikeouts are fourth-most all-time by a pitcher in NCAA Division II single-game history.

With the game set to head to a tenth inning, Jaden Farhat kept the ghost runner off the field with a two-out, walk-off line drive over the wall in left-center.

Game 2: Adelphi 6, Saint Rose 0
While she couldn't match the strikeout count, Tierney Fitzgerald was just as efficient in the circle for the 'Cats in Game 2.

Fitzgerald threw her first complete game as a Panther, working on a one-hitter until the seventh and striking out an Adelphi career-high eight batters along the way.

Brianna Fischer continues to build on a stellar freshman campaign, driving in the game's first run with a sacrifice fly in the first and sparking a five-run fifth with an RBI single to left.

The Brown and Gold batted around in the fifth, with four consecutive hitters producing RBI hits -- capped by a two-RBI single off the bat of Angelina Kellogg -- who nearly cleared the fence on a double in the second.

Fitzgerald induced a groundout from pinch-hitter Isabella Milazzo -- who started Game 1 in the circle for Saint Rose -- to end the game, cementing Adelphi's status as regular-season champions for the eighth year in a row.

Head Coach Carla Campagna and the Panthers salute their seniors and close out the regular season tomorrow (Apr. 28) with a 12 noon doubleheader against Le Moyne College.