Staten Island, NY - The College of Staten Island Men's Basketball team saw a second-half comeback attempt come up short as they dropped tonight's matchup with the Adelphi University Panthers, 84-69. The Dolphins fall to 0-5 on the season while the Panthers moved to 4-1 with the victory. 

KEY MOMENTS

The Panthers scored ten points in the first two minutes of the game and took a 10-3 lead with just over eighteen minutes to play in the first half. The Dolphins got as close as 15-10 on the first of seven made three-pointers by Bryce Waterman four and a half minutes later, but the Panthers' lead would only grow for the remainder of the half. Twenty-three points was the largest lead of the half for Adelphi, and they went into the locker room ahead by twenty. That lead grew to twenty-five early in the second half, but the Dolphins surged right back into the game behind five consecutive threes, four straight by Waterman and a fifth by Messiah Mallory. The 15-0 run brought the Dolphins back to within ten, but CSI wouldn't get any closer than seven the rest of the way in the fifteen-point loss. 

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

The Dolphins shot only 31% from the field in the first half but shot over 47% in the second half, including 42% from beyond the arc. However, this wasn't nearly enough to overcome 52% shooting by the Panthers and 37 points from Ronnie Silva. Three Dolphins scored in double-figures, Waterman, Mallory, and Max Dylan Butler, all of whom played major roles in CSI's comeback bid.

DOLPHIN OF THE GAME

It was a breakout performance for Bryce Waterman who put the Dolphins' offense on his back early in the second half. He jump started the 15-0 CSI run with four consecutive three-pointers and finished the game 7-16 from downtown. His 28 points led the Dolphins and set a new single-game season-high in points for any CSI player.

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