Box Score
Box Score
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Cornell went on a 16-3 run midway through the first half to take control of the game and earned its first Ivy League victory of the season with a 54-44 win over Columbia on Saturday afternoon at Levien Gymnasium. Cornell improved to 7-9 (1-1 Ivy) with the victory, while the Lions slipped to 2-14 (0-2 Ivy).
Sophomore Allyson DiMagno had a game-high 13 points and added six rebounds, six assists and five steals. Taylor Flynn added 10 points, Clare Fitzpatrick notched eight points and Maka Anyanwu had seven. Kristina Danielak came off the bench for six points, seven rebounds and two blocked shots. The Big Red shot 49 percent from the floor and limited the Lions to 33 percent shooting overall.
Tyler Simpson scored 13 points to lead the Lions. She was the lone player to score more than seven points. Courtney Bradford posted six points and 12 rebounds as the home team held a 38-28 advantage on the backboards.
The Lions jumped out to a quick 5-0 lead before a DiMagno 3-pointer got the Big Red on the board. A steal and leak-out by Lane and a jumper at the end of the shot clock by DiMagno got the visitors within 9-8. An 18-footer by Danielak finally got Cornell even at 10-10 with 12:30 left in the half. The team's first lead came after a trap got the Big Red a steal by DiMagno. She triggered a break that led the second of consecutive layups by Flynn to make it 14-12.
Cornell wouldn't trail again.
Flynn had six points during the run, which turned a five-point deficit into an eight-point lead. When DiMagno found Anyanwu for a jumper from the elbow with just over seven minutes to play in the half, the Big Red had a 20-12 lead. The Lions were able to briefly get back within two at 20-18 on a jumper by Simpson, but Shelby Lyman answered with a jumper of her own. DiMagno then scored a basket to go up 24-18, and the Big Red would head to the locker room with a five-point edge (24-19).
Columbia scored the first bucket after the break, but it was all Cornell from there on out. A 6-1 run pushed the lead back to eight (30-22), and the Big Red methodically built the lead into double figures. Cornell led by as many as 16 three different times, the last at 47-31 with under seven minutes to play. The Lions made a pair of mini-runs to get within 10 three different times, but could never get inside double figures.
Cornell will remain on the road in Ivy Leagure play with its third straight game away from Newman Arena in conference action when it visits Penn on Sunday, Jan. 29 at 1 p.m. at the Palestra.
