STANFORD, Calif. – The No. 15 Stanford women's basketball team scored 18 unanswered points in the first quarter to put the game out of reach early as it defeated the Big Red, 93-38, this evening at Maples Pavilion. The game was a homecoming for three Big Red players – senior Maddie Campbell (Loomis, Calif.), junior Nicholle Aston (Woodland Hills, Calif.) and freshman Samantha Clement (Anaheim, Calif.). 

Cornell (5-5) was led by Aston and Nia Marshall with eight points apiece. The duo also combined for seven rebounds, with four coming from Marshall. Campbell, playing in front of a huge contingent of family and friends, led the team with five rebounds and handed out three assists. Kerri Moran, Megan LeDuc and Caroline Shelquist all finished with six points apiece with Moran handing out at team high four assists.
 
Stanford (8-2) had five players in double-figures, led by Erica McCall's 12 points and Kaylee Johnson's 10-point, 11-rebound double-double.
 
The Cardinal shot .492 overall (31-63) and .435 from 3-point range (10-23) and held Cornell to just .226 percent overall (14-62) and .375 from beyond the arc (6-16). Stanford also held the significant 54-28 advantage on the backboards.
 
Both teams took care of the ball with the Cardinal turning the ball over just eight times, while the Big Red had 11 miscues.
 
QUOTABLE
Dayna Smith, The Rebecca Quinn Morgan '60 Head Coach of Women's Basketball: "It's an unbelievable experience. The way Stanford runs their program, the way Coach VanDerveer has been so successful through the years and has been such a great ambassador for women and for women's basketball, it's just an honor to be here, to play against them, to be able to play in front of so many Cornell people that live out on the West Coast. So it is a great experience for us. Obviously I'm very disappointed in the outcome. It wasn't what we wanted. We're a better team than what we showed in a lot of moments. Stanford had something to do with that, but it's a good time for us to learn that we can control effort, we can control hustle, we can control focus. And we had it for times and we didn't have it a lot of the first half. And to be able to walk out of here with experiences and lessons that we can take into the Ivy season, that's a good thing."
 
TURNING POINT
Nia Marshall won the tip for the Big Red and the visitors trailed just 5-3 after a trey by Megan LeDuc but Stanford scored 18 unanswered to pull away. A layup from Marshall ended the run with 1:46 remaining in the first period and the junior forward went into halftime with 6 points, nearly half of the Big Red's 13 points at the break.
 
THIRD QUARTER SURGE
After shooting just .167 percent (5-30) and scoring just 13 points in the first half, the Big Red shot .400 in the third quarter and poured in 15 points in the period, but couldn't cut into the Cardinal lead and tailed 72-28 heading into the final stanza.
 
UP NEXT
The Big Red remains in the Sunshine State to take on Cal State Fullerton on Monday, Dec. 21.