PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- An afternoon of record breaking for freshman Emily Pape helps Cornell women's basketball earn a 66-61 victory over the Brown Bears in Providence, R.I. The Big Red move to 9-11, 2-5 in Ivy play, while Brown falls to 8-11, 1-6. The win marks just the third on the road for the Big Red this season, and it halts a five game slid that began the second week of conference play.

Pape earned her second career double-double with 27 points and 11 rebounds. Anna Hovis followed with a career-best 10 points and 10 rebounds for her first career double-double. Kaya Ingram and Shannon Mulroy each added nine points, with Ania McNicholas adding eight. Ruby Grace Williams tallied two points, while Jada Davis hit a free throw. Mia Beam and Vivienne Knee also saw minutes.

Brown was led by Isabella Mauricio who earned 21 points, while Gianna Aiello also notched double-digits at 12 points. Grace Arnolie was next up with eight points, with Amanda Latkany and Lexi Love adding five a piece. Kyla Jones and Ada Anamekwe each had four, with Alyssa Moreland wrapping up the Bear's scoring with two points.

Brown opened the first quarter winning the tip off, but strong defense by the Big Red kept the Bears scoreless. The Big Red's first point of the day came from a free throws by Hovis. The Big Red defense continued to hold strong while McNicholas put away a long two-point jumper to get the first live basket of the day. Cornell would hold the Bears scoreless through the 6:55 while Mulroy added a three-pointer to build Cornell's lead to six. A Brown shot clock violation would force a Bears timeout to talk things over. The timeout would spark Brown's first points of the day off a three. The Bears would close the gap to 12-10 in favor of the Big Red, but Hovis would hit a second mid-range jumper to make it a 14-10 lead. The Big Red would close on a 6-2 run to lead 20-12 at the first quarter break, punctuated with a Mulroy buzzer-beater.

Brown fell into a momentum in the second, holding Cornell scoreless through 7:11 while closing the gap to 20-17. The first Big Red point of the second quarter echoed the first, when Ingram went 1-for-2 from the free throw line. Brown would power down the court to drill a three and drop the Cornell lead to just one, prompting a timeout from The Rebecca Quinn Morgan '60 Head Coach of Women's Basketball, Dayna Smith. Hovis would earn a trip to the free throw line in the second Cornell possession out of the timeout, but go just 1-for-2 for the third time today among all Cornell players. Ingram would do the same at the 3:57 mark. Cornell's first live-contest points of the second quarter would come from an Pape put-back layup. Brown would ensure Cornell did not pull away with a three-pointer to answer to make the score 25-23 just 20 seconds later. A Davis free-throw and Pape turn around layup would bring the scoreline to 28-23, but Brown would string together a 6-3 run to trail by just two at the half, 31-29.

It took Cornell no time to get on the boards in the third, with Pape hitting a quick jumper to bring the lead to four. Brown would answer with a driving layup, but Cornell would power to a 37-31 lead at 7:36. Brown would tally six unanswered to bring up the first tie of the game with the scoreboard knotted at 37, but Pape would spark a 7-0 run with a driving layup to bring the lead to 44-37 with 3:35 remaining in the third. Brown would use the timeout to shift the momentum back in their favor, notching three free-throws and a layup while Emily Pape had the only Big Red points of the stretch with a layup at 2:52. Coach Smith would call timeout, but the Bears would continue to cut away at the lead through the remainder of the quarter, with Cornell holding on to just a one-point lead at 48-47 after three quarters in the books.

The fourth quarter would be scoreless through 8:26, until Brown's Aiello hit a layup to take the Bears first lead of the day at 49-48. The would spark three more lead changes before Pape hit a corner three to build the lead to 55-51. Brown tallied a single free-throw at 5:29, but Pape's hot hands were unfazed, as she earned her new career high of 25 points with 5:15 remaining in the fourth. McNicholas would pour on with a three to expand the Big Red lead to 60-52 and force a Brown timeout. Brown would come go on a 6-2 run out of the break to trail by four with 90 seconds left. Shannon Mulroy would hit two free-throws to build the lead back to six, but Brown would hit its first three of the second half with 13 seconds remaining to make the Big Red lead just three at 64-61. Mulroy would hit two more free throws to help put the game away for Cornell and earn the first Big Red victory since the win over Dartmouth at home on New Year's Day.

OF NOTE

• The contest marks Pape's second career start.
• Pape tallied 14 points in the third quarter alone, the most single quarter-points by a Cornell athlete this season.
• Pape's 13 field goals is tied for the second most by an Ivy League player this season.
• The two single-game double-doubles combine mark the first time this has happened for the Big Red since last season.

UP NEXT
The Big Red return home next weekend for a two game stretch, when they host Penn on Friday evening and Princeton on Saturday.