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Cornell WBB at Brown
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45
Cornell CU 8-18,3-10 Ivy League
57
Winner Yale Yale 7-19,3-10 Ivy League
Cornell CU
8-18,3-10 Ivy League
45
Final
57
Yale Yale
7-19,3-10 Ivy League
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Cornell CU 9 14 7 15 45
Yale Yale 14 12 15 16 57

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

Cornell Falls to Yale, 57-45, Despite Early Fourth-Quarter Surge

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Senior Emily Pape scored all 10 points during a 10-2 Cornell run to open the fourth quarter Saturday evening at John J. Lee Amphitheater, pulling the Big Red within three at 40-43 with 6:20 remaining. However, Yale steadied and pulled away, handing Cornell a 57-45 defeat.

The comeback bid made the decisive sequence earlier in the game all the more significant. A 12-0 Yale run spanning nearly six minutes of the third quarter, from the 8:18 mark to the 2:43 mark,  had turned a one-possession game into a 13-point deficit. The Bulldogs outscored Cornell 15-7 in the frame and took a 41-28 lead into the fourth before Pape's surge made things interesting.

Pape finished with 12 points, 10 of which came in the fourth quarter, but Yale answered with a 3-pointer from Ciniya Moore at the 6:20 mark to push the lead back to six and Cornell could not get closer the rest of the way.

Yale's Mary Meng was dominant inside, finishing with 12 points, 11 rebounds and six blocks, while Kiley Capstraw added 15 points and 10 rebounds and Ciniya Moore netted 11 points to pace the Bulldogs. Yale outrebounded Cornell 40-29 and turned 13 Cornell turnovers into 16 points.

Cornell shot just 31.4 percent from the field and made just 4-of-14 attempts from three, falling to 8-18 overall and 3-10 in Ivy League play, dropping its seventh consecutive game. Clarke Jackson tallied seven points, three rebounds, an assist and a steal in the loss, while Rachel Kaus led the Big Red with five rebounds to go with six points. Ally Pape added six points off the bench.

GAME NOTES
• Saturday marked the 93rd meeting all-time between Cornell and Yale, with the Bulldogs now leading the all-time series, 63-30. 
• Pape notched double figures for the 12th time this season and 57th time in her career, while leading the Big Red in scoring for the ninth time this season and first time since Jan. 30 at Penn. 
• Pape needs 12 points and three 3-pointers to become the first player in program history to record 1,100 points, 600 rebounds, and 115 made threes in a career.
• Kaus led the team in rebounding for the seventh time this season. 
• Sophomore Kelsey Langston added a team-best three assists to her season total, now up to a team-high 83, becoming the first member of the Big Red to record 80 or more assists in a season since Kaya Ingram '24 had 80 in 2023-24.

NEXT UP
Cornell women's basketball will close out the 2025-26 season on Saturday, March 7 when it hosts Dartmouth at Newman Arena on ESPN+.
 
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