Freshman Molly Spadaro (Sewell, N.J.) finished 3-of-4 from behind the arc with 11 points, five boards, and three assists, while Jillian Barrett (Philadelphia, Pa.) had 10 points, eight rebounds, three assists, and three steals in the win. Junior guard Dawn Garcia (Brooklyn, N.Y.) chipped in with eight points and three assists.
Three Dolphins hit double-digits to pace the CSI attack, lead by sophomore guard Olivia Tierno's (Staten Island, N.Y.) 20 points. Senior Allie Shanahan (Staten Island, N.Y.) had 12 points in the loss, while freshman guard Jaclyn Tocco (Staten Island, N.Y.) finished with 10 points, four assists, and three rebounds.
Webber and senior Paige Armstrong (Fair Haven, N.J.) got the Ducks on the board with back-to-back layups, before a Shanahan jumper pared the Dolphin deficit to two. Garcia responded with a three to up the margin to five, but Shanahan drained a triple of her own on the other end to trim the lead back down.
Undeterred, Webber buried a shot from distance, resorting the Ducks' five-point edge, but Tocco answered by converting a three-point play the old-fashioned way, making it 10-8 Stevens with just over 15 minutes left in the first half. The Ducks answered with 10-straight points, book-ending consecutive Webber buckets, with Spadaro and Garcia threes.
Staten Island would cut the advantage to eight on a Tierno triple, but Stevens put together a 20-2 run over the final 11 and a half minutes of the frame, taking a decisive 40-14 lead into the locker room. After a Victoria O'Connor (Westwood, N.J.) free-throw got the run started, Barrett netted six of the game's next eight points to give Stevens a 17-point lead.
Following a Avis Benjamin (Queens, N.Y.) layup, Shanahan knocked down a pair of free-throws – momentarily quelling the Ducks' tide – before nine-straight Stevens points, capped off by a Jen Thompson (Linwood, N.J.) trey with just 20 seconds remaining gave the Ducks a 26-point lead heading into the break.
Five-consecutive Spadaro points coming out of the intermission gave Stevens a 32-point cushion, before a Shanahan layup cut it to 45-16 with just under 17 to go. The lead swelled to 32 on another Webber three, but a Tocco triple on the ensuing Staten Island possession once again made it a 29-point game.
Down 30 after a Spadaro three at 12:12, the Dolphins mounted a 12-3 run over the next seven minutes of action, trimming the Ducks' lead to 21 on back-to-back Rachel Rosado (Staten Island, N.Y.) baskets. Trailing by 23 with just over three and a half minutes left, Tierno rattled off seven unanswered points, cutting the Staten Island deficit to 16 at 2:18, but the Dolphins rally would fall short, as Stevens earned its fifth victory of the season.
Stevens, which shot 47.3 percent (26-for-55) for the game with a season-high nine three-pointers, while holding Staten Island to just 32.1 percent (18-for-56) shooting, held a decisive 32-16 edge in points in the paint, while outrebounding the Dolphins, 49-21. The Ducks, who open up conference play at Utica College on Friday, December 10, also notched 24 points on 19 Staten Island turnovers, nabbing 10 steals.