NEW YORK – Behind a season-high 13 three-pointers -- including a six-for-six performance by junior guard
Tori Andrew -- the Yale women's basketball team rolled to an 85-60 win at Columbia Friday night. The win was the Bulldogs' seventh in a row, giving them their longest winning streak since Jan. 7 through Feb. 6, 2014. Senior guard
Roxy Barahman led Yale with 20 points, while senior forward
Megan Gorman led in assists with seven. Sophomore forward
Camilla Emsbo tied Gorman for the team lead in rebounds with eight, adding a pair of blocks.
"I'm so proud of the way that we shared the basketball," said
Allison Guth, Yale's Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Women's Basketball. "We shot the ball really well from the three-point line and played great defense."
Yale (13-3, 3-0 Ivy League) started the game with a 10-0 run. Barahman -- sporting purple sneakers in memory of Kobe Bryant -- had four of those, and Andrew's first three-pointer of the night capped the run.
Columbia (10-6, 1-2 Ivy League) answered with a 15-5 run to tie the game heading into the second. The Lions hung with the Bulldogs throughout that quarter, with a late three-pointer by Barahman getting Yale a 35-32 halftime lead.
An 11-0 Bulldog run early in the third proved to be a turning point. Four different players scored, with Gorman getting four points in the paint and setting up Emsbo for a layup that extended the Yale lead to 46-34.
Columbia got no closer than 10 the rest of the way. The Bulldogs closed out the game by outscoring the Lions 26-13 in the fourth, including a 16-0 run in which Yale held Columbia scoreless for 5:50.
First year guard
Klara Astrom hit two three-pointers in a span of 41 seconds during that run, and a three by sophomore guard
Mackenzie Hewitt with 2:31 to play concluded the onslaught from downtown.
Yale, which is now 6-2 in road games, plays at Cornell Saturday.
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