PRINCETON, N.J. – The Yale women's basketball team stayed within striking distance of Princeton through the first quarter Saturday afternoon at Jadwin Gym, but the Tigers broke the game open by outscoring the Bulldogs 22-4 in the second. They went on to claim a 79-30 win and move into a three-way tie for second in the Ivy League standings.
Yale (10-10, 4-3 Ivy League) was tied with the Tigers 6-6 at the first media timeout, thanks to baskets from junior guard
Jenna Clark, sophomore guard
Nyla McGill and junior forward
Haley Sabol. But the Tigers went on a 6-0 run to start claiming control of the game. They led 14-9 at the end of the first.
Princeton's suffocating defense limited Yale to a 2-for-11 shooting performance in the second as the Tigers built their lead up to 23 points by halftime. It grew to 34 in the third and 49 in the fourth.
Clark led the Bulldogs in scoring with nine points. She and first-year guard
Kiley Capstraw tied for the team lead in rebounds with five.
Princeton (14-5, 5-2 Ivy League) has now won six in a row since a 58-55 overtime loss to Columbia Jan. 6.
This was the first game back at Jadwin Gym for
Dalila Eshe, Yale's new Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Women's Basketball. She spent the previous three seasons as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Princeton.
Yale is now in fifth place in the Ivy League standings, a game behind the three teams tied for second (Harvard, Penn and Princeton). The Bulldogs host Harvard next Friday at 6:00 p.m.
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