Box Score NEW HAVEN, Conn. –
Spencer Lane registered the first double-double of her career, including a personal-best 20 points to lead three Big Red players in double-figures, but a late Yale run led the Bulldogs to 71-64 victory in women's basketball this evening at Lee Amphitheater in New Haven, Conn.
Lane had an outstanding evening overall, also pulling down a career-high 12 rebounds to go along with six steals and three assists. The Big Red had two players register a double-double for the first time since the 2007-08 season, as
Allyson DiMagno finished the night with 18 points and 13 rebounds, as well as three assists. With her 13 rebounds, DiMagno set the school record for rebounds in a season with 288, surpassing Rhonda Anderson who pulled down 287 boards in the 1982-83 season.
Clare Fitzpatrick added 17 rebounds and six rebounds.
Yale (12-14, 7-5) was led by Megan Vasquez with 18 points, while Jana Graf came one rebound shy of a double-double with 16 points and nine boards. Sarah Halejian also chipped in 17 points.
Both teams finished with 43 rebounds, while Cornell forced Yale into 15 turnovers with 11 steals, while the Big Red turned the ball over just 12 points.
Cornell got off to a slow start, shooting just 18 percent in the first half and trailing 28-17 at the intermission, but the visitors knocked down 50 percent of its shots over the final 20 minutes to get back into the contest.
The Big Red used an 11-2 run, with seven points coming from Lane, to take a 38-35 lead with just under 12 minutes to play.
The teams battled back-and-forth over the next four minutes of play but with the score tied at 43-43 at the 8:32 mark, Yale got back-to-back treys from Halejian and Vasquez to take a lead it would not relinquish.
The Big Red has a busy week ahead as it travels to Dartmouth for a contest on Tuesday, March 5 at 6 p.m., before concluding its season at home against the Big Green and Harvard on Friday, March 8 and Saturday, March 9, respectively. The game on March 5 was originally to be played on Saturday, Feb. 10, but was postponed due to winter storm Nemo.
