ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The Ithaca College women's basketball team picked up a 73-65 win over Rochester on Tuesday evening to close out the 2019 portion of its schedule.
 
Three Bombers reached double-figures, led by senior KellyAnne O'Reilly with a career-high 22 points, surpassing her career high she achieved on Saturday against Vassar. O'Reilly hit 4-for-5 from 3-point range, grabbed five rebounds and recorded three steals.
 
Junior Grace Cannon notched her second double-double of the season with 16 points and 11 rebounds. Senior Cassidy O'Malley has now finished with double-figures in all seven games this season as she scored 13 against the Yellowjackets.
 
Ithaca opened the game with a 6-0 stretch following back-to-back buckets from O'Malley and a jumper from Cannon. Rochester, however, would go on to score seven unanswered points to take an 11-10 lead with 5:15 remaining on the clock.
 
After a 3-pointer from Rochester's Hannah Lindemuth tied things up at 14 with 3:54 on the clock, but the Bombers took back the lead with jumpers from Cannon and junior Megan Yawman. Ithaca ultimately held on to a one-point, 23-22 lead at the end of the first quarter.
 
Things remained closed in the opening minutes of the second quarter as the lead changes hands several times.
 
A 3-pointer from Rochester's Alexis Sestric at 6:54 gave the Yellowjackets a four-point, 31-27 edge over the Bombers but IC would ultimately go on to tie things up, 32-32, with 4:10 on the clock following an O'Reilly 3-pointer. Another 3-pointer from O'Malley put the Bombers in the lead again, which held until halftime.
 
Ithaca maintained its lead for the remainder of the game, starting with an O'Reilly 3-pointer off a fastbreak in the first minute of the third quarter.
 
Rochester closed the gap to three points on an and-one play from Juliana Okoniewski but the Bombers would go on to take a double-digit lead with just over two minutes remaining on a Yawman bucket.
 
After exchanging baskets, a Cara Volpe jumper with 14 seconds on the clock propelled Ithaca into the fourth quarter with a 10-point, 58-48, lead.
 
The Bombers opened up the fourth quarter with six straight points from sophomore Lindsey Albertelli and Volpe to put IC up 64-48.
 
Ithaca held a double-digit lead until the final two minutes of the game. Okoniewski scored seven-straight points for the Yellowjackets to cut the Bombers' lead to just seven points, 70-63. IC, however, held off any further runs from Rochester en route to the win.

Ithaca is now 4-3 on the season as it heads into the winter break. The Bombers are back in action on January 6 with a road game at St. John Fisher at 6 p.m. IC then hosts Skidmore on January 10 and William Smith on January 11 during the first home weekend of Liberty League play.