With the victory the Panthers remain unbeaten at 4-0.
Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi University men's basketball team played host to Northeast-10 conference foe the College of St. Rose in their home opener on Tuesday, November 24. The Panthers opened the game with a 12-3 run and never looked back, holding St. Rose to 37 percent shooting for the game, collecting a 68-49 victory. With the win Adelphi improves to 4-0 overall and 2-0 in the NE-10, while St. Rose falls to 1-3 overall and remains win less in conference play at 0-3.
Richard Byrd led the way for Adelphi, scoring a team-high 16 points and grabbing a team-high eight misses, while Chris Diasparra joined Byrd in double figures with 14 points. Casey Cosgrove also had a strong all-around game, scoring nine points, handing out six assists and collecting three misses to go along with three steals.
Adelphi opened the game on a 12-3 run that was capped by a David Akinyooye jumper at the 15 minute mark. St. Rose clawed back within four, 12-8, but the Panthers used a 15-5 run that was opened with two Steffon Farley free throws and closed with a Diasparra triple to push the bulge to 15, 28-13 with 8:28 on the clock.
Diasparra would give Adelphi their biggest lead of the half on a jumper that made the count, 39-20, before a Jermaine Clark three clipped Adelphi's edge to 39-23 at the half.
St. Rose got as close as 10 in the second frame, when Andre Pope buried a three pointer to make the score 45-35 with 15 minutes remaining. However, that was as close as the Golden Knights would get as Adelphi used a 15-4 run to take a 21-point advantage, 60-39, on a Cosgrove triple with 7:50 remaining to put the game out of reach.
Adelphi returns to action on Sunday, November 29 when they travel to Worcester, Massachusetts for a 3:30 pm meeting with Assumption.
The men's basketball is off to their best start since my senior year as student and fan of panthers basketball in 2001 and this is team so special and everybody connect with each other and they are so hungry right now and to win each game and bring trophy like northeast-10 tournament champions and ncaa northeast- regional back to garden city where it belongs and going to elite eight in springfield,massasuchetts and we are in our first season in the northeast-10 and doing very well right now and we have perfect overall record and northeast-10 record and our next two homes are away at powerhouse and defending conference tournament champions assumption college on nov 29th and on dec 2nd we play at south connecticut university in west haven,ct and going to be a very tough away and believe the team will come out victorious in those two games.
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