ITHACA, N.Y. – The Big Red women's basketball team erased a late 13-point Colgate advantage to tie the contest at 68-68 with 3:31 to play, but Cornell could not regain the lead and the Raiders escaped Newman Arena with a 74-70 victory.
 
Sophomore Samantha Widmann led all scorers with a career-high 25 points to go along with six rebounds, four steals and three assists. Two other Big Red – Danielle Jorgenson (14) and Stephanie Umeh (10) – also finished with career highs in points and Jogenson also posted three assists while Umeh tallied a game-high nine rebounds. Freshman Elodie Furey also grabbed eight rebounds as Cornell held the 40-29 advantage on the boards.
 
Colgate (2-1) used a balanced offense with four players in double-digits to snap a six-game losing streak to the Big Red, earning its first win in the series since the 2010-11 season. Rachel Thompson led the Raiders with 14 points, while Tegan Graham added 12 and Kateri Stone and Mackenzie Carroll chipped in 11 apiece.
 
The visitors shot better than 50 percent overall (.509; 27-53) and connected on nearly half of its shots from beyond the arc (.471; 8-17), while Cornell connected on just .383 percent from the floor (23-60) and .333 percent from 3-point range (9-27).
 
The game featured nine lead changes in the opening seven minutes, but with the score knotted at 16-16, the Raiders embarked on a 14-0 run to take a lead they would carry into the fourth quarter.
 
Colgate led 68-57 with just over nine minutes to play in the contest when a jumper by Umeh kicked off an 11-0 run by the home team that ended in a runner in the lane by Jorgenson to tie the game at 68-68 with 3:31 to play.  
 
Back-to-back buckets by Thompson and Graham returned the lead to the visitors but a pair of made free throws by Widmann made it a one-possession game (73-70) with 58 seconds on the clock. After a big defensive stop, Cornell's next offensive set came up empty and a single made free throw by Summer King sealed the 74-70 win for the visitors.
 
Cornell (0-3) is back in action on Monday, Nov. 20, when it plays host to its third Patriot League foe of the season – Lehigh – in Newman Arena at 7 p.m.