NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Emily Pape and Rachel Kaus scored 17 points apiece, but Ivy League champion Columbia closed its regular strong with a 91-58 victory over Cornell on Saturday afternoon at Levien Gymnasium. The Lions improved to 22-5 (13-1 Ivy), while Cornell's season ended with a 7-20 (3-11 Ivy) mark in year one under head coach Emily Garner.

Pape hit 6-of-10 field goals, including five from beyond the 3-point arc as Cornell nailed a season-best nine 3-pointers in the defeat. Both Kaus and Paige Engels hit two apiece as well. Kaus added eight rebounds off the bench with Engles adding three assists and two boards. Senior Summer Parker-Hall posted four points, five rebounds, two assists and two steals in her final collegiate game, while Kelsey Langston's first season ended with five rebounds and six assists. Cornell had 17 total assists but turned it over 25 times.

The Lions put five scorers in double figures, with Cecelia Collins leading the way with 21 points, 10 rebounds, five assists and three steals in the win. The Lions connected on 14 3-pointers, assisted on 29 baskets with just eight turnovers and shot 51 percent overall in the win. Riley Weiss scored 16 points, Kitty Henderson chipped in 14 along with nine assists and three boards, and Susie Rafiu had 10 points, seven assists and seven rebounds, including six on the offensive end.

The Lions set the tone early with a 29-point first quarter and cruised to a 45-24 edge at the break. Cornell had the game tied at 9-9 midway through the first after Parker-Hall assisted on Kaus' 3-pointer to knot the score. That triggered a 15-2 Columbia run capped off by a Riley Weiss trey with a minute to go before the break. The Big Red only briefly got back within single digits, when Kaus hit a 3-pointer on the team's final possession of the first quarter, a shot that was answered at the buzzer by Collins for Columbia.

Cornell was held to seven points in the second quarter and 21 in the middle two as the Lions built a 64-38 lead entering the fourth. Both teams went to the bench in the fourth as the Big Red offense hit four 3-pointers in the 10 minutes. Cornell ended the evening at 41 percent from beyond the arc, but in the end it was the Lions who celebrated clinching sole possession of the Ivy title with the victory.