From University of Rochester Athletics
Blair Landolfi scored 13 of her team-high 15 points in the
second half as Rochester rallied to defeat Carnegie Mellon
University, 68-63, in a women's basketball game at Skibo Gymnasium
on Sunday afternoon.
Four of the five starters scored 10 or more. Danielle McNabb scored
14. Loren Wagner had 12 points and 18 rebounds, her eighth straight
double-double and 13thof the season. Ally Zywicki scored
12 points and handed out four assists. Kelsey Hurley scored seven
points.
Gabrielle West was the only double figure scorer for CMU. She had
13 points, including a pair of treys. Lisa Otto scored nine points.
Lisa Murphy, saddled with foul trouble for much of the second half,
scored seven points, grabbed 11 rebounds, and handed out five
assists. Lindsay Poss had six points and 10 rebounds. Jacquie Shaw
scored nine points.
Rochester improved to 9-13 overall, 3-8 in the University Athletic
Association. Carnegie Mellon is 11-11 overall, 3-9 in the UAA. The
Tartans defeated Rochester, 71-70, in the Palestra four weeks
ago.
The Yellowjackets fought back from a 14-point second half deficit
(42-28 CMU two and a half minutes into the restart). Rochester used
a 13-2 run over four minutes to pull within 44-41 with 13:30 to
play. Zywicki had five points in the spurt – a conventional
three-point play, then a runner in the lane. A 10-footer left of
the lane from Katie Weiner and a layup by Wagner closed the
burst.
Poss restored a five-point lead before Landolfi hit the first of
two treys in the second half. McNabb's three from the right corner
made it a one point game and Weiner tied it at 49-all on a
layup.
Another three from Landolfi, this one from right wing in front of
her own bench, tied the score at 52-52 with 7:33 to go. That
started a mini-scoring run for her, 7-2 in two minutes with her
jumper just inside the circle giving Rochester its first lead since
late in the first half, 56-55. She knotted the score again, this
time at 57-57 by making the second of two free throws with 4:52
left.
Carnegie's last lead came on Otto's spin in the lane for a 59-57
edge with 3:36 left. Hurley drained a 3-pointer from right wing and
McNabb converted both ends of a one-and-one to push it to 62-59
under three minutes.
The Tartans pulled within one point twice – 62-61 on a Poss
12 footer in the lane with 2:35 left and 64-63 when Otto connected
on a 15-footer on left wing with just under a minute to play. It
turned out to be CMU's final point of the afternoon.
Hurley drove for a layup (66-63 with 45 seconds left). The
Yellowjackets could have nailed it down, but sank only two of six
free throw attempts. Weiner made a decisive defensive play in the
last 30 seconds. After Zywicki missed two free throws, the Tartans
ran the ball down the floor. Weiner planted in the lane and took a
charge by Jennifer Elkin with 26.4 left. CMU fouled before the ball
could be inbounded. Wagner made the back end of two for a
four-point edge.
Carnegie missed two three pointers on the next rush down the floor
and had a chance for a third but the rebound was bobbled, and
tapped to Zywicki who sank one shot with 4.9 seconds left.
In the first half, the Yellowjackets led by four three times, the
last at 13-9 on a Landolfi jumper. Two free throws by Wagner put
Rochester ahead, 19-18, with 8:08 left.
West made two 3-pointers and a conventional three-point play to key
a 17-7 spurt that gave Carnegie a 35-26 lead at the half.