Bombers and Cardinals Win Tuesday Night
Ithaca 55, Elmira 29
Off to its best start in program history, the Ithaca College women’s basketball team (13-1, 5-0 Empire 8) held host Elmira (5-10, 1-4 Empire 8) to just 10 points in the second half en route to a 55-29 victory Tuesday night.
Ithaca held Elmira to just nine field goals and 23.1 percent shooting from the floor in winning its eighth straight game. The Bombers shot 38.5 percent on the night and outrebounded the Soaring Eagles, 41-21. Elmira owned an 18-15 edge in turnovers, resulting in 17 Ithaca points.
After a slow start to the game, Ithaca used a 9-1 run to secure a double-digit lead at 3:28. Ithaca secured a 28-19 gap at intermission.
The Bombers powered to a 39-23 advantage eight minutes into the second stint, holding Elmira to just two field goals. Senior Catherine Lewis drained a pair of free throws at the five-minute mark for a 48-25 IC lead. The Soaring Eagles scored four consecutive, but seven unanswered Bomber points finalized all scoring in Ithaca’s favor, 55-29.
Junior Kathryn Campbell led all players with 13 points on 6-for-9 shooting. Sophomore Ally Mnich scored 12 and junior Mary Kate Tierney 10. Tierney and sophomore Samantha Klie each pulled down six boards for the Bombers and Mnich and classmate Francesca Cotrupe added five apiece.
St. John Fisher 62, Nazareth 50
The St. John Fisher College women's basketball team opened the game with a 23-4 run over the first 11 minutes and coasted to a 62-50 win over East-Avenue rival Nazareth College on Tuesday at Fisher's Manning & Napier Varsity Gym.
With the win, Fisher improves to 6-10 overall and 3-4 in the Empire 8, while Nazareth falls to 4-11, 1-5.
Fisher opened the game with a 13-0 run, as freshman starter
Claire Walsh scored the first 10 points on 4-of-4 shooting from the floor with two 3-pointers.
She scored 14 of her career-high 18 points in the first half – matching Nazareth's opening-period total – as the Cardinals led 32-14 at the break.
Fisher led by as many as 25 points early in the second half, as a free throw from
Sydney Bloomstein made it 46-21 with 16:10 left.
Nazareth ended the game with a 17-6 run over the final nine minutes.
Bloomstein finished with 11 points and seven rebounds.
Portia Velasco added 11 points, six assists, five rebounds and three steals.
Junior center
Camaryn Buckner totaled nine rebounds, six blocked shots and five points.