Box Score SEATTLE – After trailing by as many as 20 points in the first half of play, the Big Red women's basketball team used a furious rally to get back into the contest, but saw a potential game-tying 3-pointer rim out as time expired to fall to the defending regular season WAC champions Seattle, 52-49 in the championship game of the Delta Dental Thanksgiving Tournament.

Nia Marshall was named to the All-Tournament team after coming one rebound shy of posting her second double-double on the weekend, leading Cornell with 15 points and nine boards. Allyson DiMagno chipped in eight points, four rebounds, five steals, and three drawn charges. Both Stephanie Long and Kerri Moran finished with seven points, with Moran also posting five steals, while Shelby Lyman handed out a team-high five assists. Allison Bockrath posted six points, all of which came in the final 5:07 of the contest as Cornell tried to complete the comeback.

Seattle (3-4) was led by Taelor Ross with 13 points and six rebounds, while Ashley Ward finished with 11 points.  Kacie Sowell posted a game-high 13 rebounds and Alexis Montgomery finished with six to help the Redhawks to a significant 42-23 advantage on the boards.

The home team also shot the ball extremely well, knocking down 51.2 percent (21-41) of its shots and scoring exactly half of its points in the paint (26). Cornell, meanwhile, struggled from the floor shooting just 16.7 percent in the first half and finishing the game at 26.3 percent (15-57). Both team struggled beyond the arc, but Seattle managed to convert 26.7 percent (4-of-15), while the Big Red finished at 12.5 percent (2-16).

Cornell (4-3) stayed in the game by forcing 33 Redhawk turnovers with a season high 18 steals and scoring 21 points off those turnovers. Offensively, the Big Red's 14 turnovers was a season low.

Cornell managed to outscore Seattle 36-21 in the second half, but couldn't climb all the way out of the hole it had dug itself after going into halftime trailing, 31-13.

The Redhawks used an 18-2 run over a six minute span midway through the first half to blow open what had been a low scoring, turnover riddled, opening to the first half. Cornell came to life in the closing minutes, but the Redhawks eventually pushed its lead to 20 points on a jumper from Renee Dillard Brown with 1:35 showing on the clock.

Long responded with a jumper on Cornell's next possession and the teams went into the break with Seattle leading, 31-13.

The Big Red's offense came alive in the second half, starting with a deep jumper from the corner by Lyman just over one minute in. After a Sylvia Shephard layup, Marshall converted a traditional three-point play and then connected on two more free throws for five consecutive points to make it a 33-20 contest at the 17:23 mark.

A Stoffel bucket in the paint was answered by Long, who hit Cornell's first 3-pointer of the game to cut the Redhawks lead to 12 points (35-23) with 16:38 to play.

Ross responded on Seattle's next possession and the team's traded baskets until the Big Red used eight unanswered points, a run that featured another drawn charge by DiMagno, to make it seven points game, 42-35, with just under 10 minutes remaining in the contest.

Ward ended the home team's drought with a floater in the lane, but a beautiful back-cut layup from DiMagno, off a pass by Marshall, started a sequence that saw the rookie forward have a hand in three consecutive Cornell buckets. After the assist on DiMagno's lauyup, Marshall forced a turnover on the Redhawks' next possession and DiMagno hit a runner in the lane to make it a 44-39 game. Marshall then knocked down a layup of her own and Bockrath made a single free throw to cut Seattle's lead to 44-42 at the 5:07 mark.

The Redhawks pushed their lead back to seven points with just over three minutes to play on a 3-pointer from Shephard and a layup from Wilma Afunugo, but Cornell wasn't done.

Bockrath hit a 3-pointer at the 3:01 mark and then answered a pair of Ward free throws with an offensive rebound put-back to make it a 51-47 game with 2:13 to play. Moran came up with a steal, her fifth of the game, on Seattle's next possession and Lyman streaked in for the fastbreak layup to make it a 51-49 game.

The Big Red began fouling and Montgomery made just one-of-two chances to give Cornell the ball back, down three, with 27 seconds to play. Coming out of a timeout, they got the look the wanted but the ball was off the mark. The Big Red fouled again, and this time, the Redhawks' player missed the front end of a one-and-one, giving Cornell one last good look, but the ball rimmed out at the buzzer.

The Big Red is back in action on Wednesday, Dec. 4, as it welcomes instate rival Binghamton to Newman Arena.