Penn defeats women's basketball by ten points

The women's basketball team, playing in its final game of the season last night at Penn, found itself up nine points midway through the first half. That would be its biggest lead, as the game slowly unravelled for the Tigers (9-19 overall, 4-10 Ivy League) from there, and Penn (15-12 overall, 9-5 Ivy League) beat Princeton, 79-69.

The Tigers grabbed the early nine-point lead thanks to clutch shooting by freshman post Rebecca Brown, who scored 17 points in the first half.

Yet three turnovers and four costly fouls in the final two minutes and thirty seconds of the half allowed the Quakers to tie the game up at half time, 31-31. The Quakers owned all the momentum going into the locker room at halftime.

This showed, as Penn's Catherine Makarewich nailed a three-pointer 41 seconds into the half, the catalyst to Penn's racing to an eight point lead. Though the Tigers would fight back with back-to-back threes of their own, cutting the lead to as low as four points, consecutive Penn three-pointers gave the Quakers a 10-point lead, 53-43, with 13:33 left. Penn eventually raced to as high as an 18-point lead with just over 10 minutes left.

A late Tiger run that saw Princeton hit four shots in the final 1:26 slightly narrowed the Quakers lead, yet the deficit was too big and the time on the clock too small to allow any miraculous comeback.