Feb. 3, 2006

Box Score

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Junior guard Stephanie Marciano (Edison, N.J.) scored a season-high 10 points and had three assists, but Princeton used a three-pronged attack to take down Yale in an Ivy League contest on Friday night at John J. Lee Amphitheater 53-47. Three Tigers finished in double figures, led by 13 a piece from Becky Brown and Meagan Cowher to win the defensive battle.

Princeton jumped out early, going up by as many as six points at the 14:09 mark on a Jessica Berry lay up. The Bulldogs kept the deficit at a manageable five points as late as the 7:12 mark after Erica Davis (Columbus, N.J.) converted a three-point play. The Tigers tried to distance themselves from the Bulldogs, but Yale held tough until the final minutes of the half when Princeton build the lead to nine points on a pair of Cowher free throws to send the teams into the intermission at 28-19.

The Tigers quickly went to work on growing the lead in the second half, at one point leading by 17 midway through the period. Yale then set to the task of cutting into the Princeton lead.

Davis hit a jumper from the foul line and Kaitlin Emmerling (Lakewood, Colo.) buried a triple to quickly lop five points off the lead. Cowher answered with a jumper of her own, but Yale scored the next five points thanks to a Marciano trey and a Kaitlyn Lillemoe (Minnetonka, Minn.) lay-in on the gallop. With the lead now down to nine points at 42-33 and 5:44 left, the Bulldogs were thinking comeback.

Princeton quickly squelched those ideas, holding the Blue without a field goal for the next four minutes and building the lead back up to 15 after an old fashioned Brown three-point play. The Tigers would ride out the duration, winning 53-37.

The Tigers improve to 13-4 overall and stay perfect at 4-0 in Ivy play. Yale drops to 1-17 and 0-5 in conference play. The Bulldogs return to action on Saturday night, hosting Penn at Lee Amphitheater. Tip-off is set for 7:00 p.m. Report filed by Hank Gargiulo, Yale Sports Publicity