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Rachel Kaus
© Emmie Agee
72
Winner Penn Penn 14-8,4-5 Ivy League
66
Cornell CU 8-14,3-6 Ivy League
Winner
Penn Penn
14-8,4-5 Ivy League
72
Final
66
Cornell CU
8-14,3-6 Ivy League
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 OT 1 F
Penn Penn 12 21 19 10 10 72
Cornell CU 15 16 15 16 4 66

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | | Shawn Gillen, Assistant Director of Athletic Communications

Kaus Scores Career-Best 25 in Overtime Loss to Penn Friday Night

ITHACA, N.Y. - Cornell women's basketball forced overtime Friday night at Newman Arena, erasing a seven-point fourth-quarter deficit, but it was Penn that came out on top after the extra frame, 72-66.

Cornell (8-14, 3-6 Ivy) junior Rachel Kaus scored a game-high 25 points on 11-for-20 shooting while leading the team with nine rebounds. Senior Emily Pape and junior Clarke Jackson added 13 and 12 points apiece, with Pape adding six rebounds and four assists. Sophomore Kelsey Langston added a game-high eight assists to go with five points.As a team, Cornell went 25-for-64 from the field, including 8-for-23 from three. The Big Red went 8-for-11 at the line.

Penn (14-8, 4-5 Ivy) was led by Mataya Gayle's 23 points on 10-for-19 shooting, including 3-for-6 from three. The guard added eight rebounds, four assists and two steals in the contest. Katie Collins added 16 points, eight rebounds and four assists, while Brooke Suttle finished with 11 points and eight boards. The Quakers finished the contest shooting 41.2 percent as a team, going 11-for-12 at the line and outrebounding Cornell 45-31.

Pape opened the contest with back-to-back 3-pointers, giving Cornell an early 6-0 lead over visiting Penn and a 13-6 lead by the four-minute mark of the opening quarter, making five of its first 10 shots, including three from behind the arc. Penn ended the quarter on a 6-2 run, making it a 15-12 game in favor of the Big Red heading into the second.

Gayle scored nine of her 23 points in the second quarter as the Quakers outscored Cornell 21-16 in the frame, including a 17-6 run from the 9:36 to 2:35 mark of the stanza, taking a 29-23 lead before the Big Red scored eight of the final 10 points in the quarter, six of which came from freshman Ally Pape, making it a 33-31 game at the intermission.

Cornell came out hot in the second half, going on a 13-5 run in the first four minutes, connecting on all four shots from the field, three of which came from behind the 3-point line from E. Pape, Audrey Chen and Langston, putting the Big Red ahead, 44-38. With six minutes left in the third, the Cornell offense stalled while Penn heated up, going 5-for-9 from the field with three 3-pointers, while the Big Red made just one of its seven attempts after starting the frame a perfect 4-for-4.

Cornell trailed by seven points, 54-47, early on in the fourth before a 6-0 run put it down by one, 54-53, with 6:52 to play. From there, Penn would make back-to-back layups, once again putting the home team in a two-possession hole. Just under four minutes later, Cornell trailed 62-58 with 2:45 to play when Kaus, who scored 11 of her 25 in the fourth, made a pair of layups to tie the game at 62. Langston would take the final shot of regulation, but it went off the back iron, sending Penn and Cornell to overtime.

In the extra frame, Cornell would get the lead first, 64-62, on a Kaus layup, but Penn would control the five minutes, going 4-for-6 from the field en route to a 72-66 win over Cornell.

Game Notes
• Cornell and Penn have met 93 times with Penn leading the all-time series 71-22 after Friday night. 
• Penn has won nine-straight games in Ithaca. 
• Cornell has made seven or more threes in 10 games this season. 
• Kaus' 25 points is a new career-high for the junior, surpassing her previous career-best of 20 set two Saturday's ago at Princeton. 
• Kaus has now reached double-figures in 16 games this season and 37 for her career. She has led Cornell in scoring eight times this season. 
• Jackson, who reached double figures for the 12th time this season, made a career-high two 3-pointers in the contest. 
• Langston matched her career and season-high with eight assists. She has led Cornell in assists in six of the last seven games and now has 74 on the season. 

Next Up
Cornell will take on No. 24 Princeton at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14 inside Newman Arena. The game will be carried on ESPN+
 
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