WEST POINT, N.Y. —.Emily Garner earned her first win as the Rebecca Quinn Morgan '60 Head Coach of Women's Basketball at Cornell against Army West Point, where she began her career as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator, 60-54 on Monday night.
This game proved to be a hard fought 40 minutes of play for each team, with Cornell coming out on top shooting 45.7 percent from the field and 44.4 percent from behind the arc. The Big Red were also shooting 82.4 percent from the free throw line. Army's downfall proved to be in shooting as they shot 35.4 percent from the field, 29.4 percent from behind the arc and 71.4 percent from the line.
Sophomore Clarke Jackson led the Big Red in scoring with 16, sophomores Azareya Kilgoe and Rachel Kaus followed close behind with 15 apiece. Senior Summer Parker-Hall had seven, junior Emily Pape and freshman Paige Engels each had three. Pape led the team in rebounds with 12 and freshman Kelsey Langston led the team in assists with three. Kaus registered one block and Jackson registered one steal.
Fiona Hastick led the Black Knights in scoring with 18, Kya Smith and Trinity Hardy were the next leading scorers each having ten points. Hardy led Army in rebounds with seven and assists with four. Camryn Tade registered two blocks and Hastick had one steal.
FIRST QUARTER
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Fiona Hastick began the quarter with a quick and easy layup off of the tip for Army.
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Cornell and Army then went back and forth until the Big Red had back-to-back threes from junior Emily Pape and sophomore Rachel Kaus opened up the Cornell lead to 14-9 with 1:21 left in the quarter.
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The Black Knights Kya Smith was fouled and made both of her free throws with ten seconds left to make the score 14-11 in favor of Cornell at the end of the first quarter.
SECOND QUARTER
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Camryn Tade immediately drained a three and tied the game at the top of the second quarter and Kya Smith then made a layup to give Army the lead 16-14 with 9:17 left in the half.
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After going back and forth, sophomore Azareya Kilgoe made a three to shift the lead back in Cornell's favor and start a 16-8 run for the Big Red to end the half with Cornell in the lead 32-26.
THIRD QUARTER
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Clarke Jackson started off the second half scoring with a layup as the Big Red started the second half on a 7-3 run.
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Army responded with a run of its own as the Black Knights went on a 10-0 run to tie the game at 39 with 2:06 left in the third quarter.
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Clarke Jackson hit a jumper and Summer Parker-Hall made two free throws to end the third quarter with Cornell in the lead 43-39.
FOURTH QUARTER
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The fourth quarter started with two fouls on Cornell and four back-to-back free throws made for Army to tie the game at 43 with 7:52 left in the game.
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Kya Smith then made a layup for Army to put them up 45-43 with 7:09 left.
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Azareya Kilgoe hit a three and began a 7-0 Cornell run to put the Big Red up 50-46.
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After a free throw made by Army, Cornell went on a 4-0 run before Army made two more free throws to make the score 54-49 with 54 seconds left in play.
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The teams traded free throws until Reese Ericson drained a deep three for Army to make the score 58-54.
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Cornell was then fouled with five seconds left, made both free throws and had a defensive stop to win the game 60-54.
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