TROY, N.Y. - The Ithaca College women's basketball team jumped out to a 14-point lead after the first quarter and despite Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute cutting the deficit to single digits at halftime, a solid second half led the Bombers to a 62-45 victory over the Engineers in a Liberty League game at East Campus Arena. Ithaca improves to 8-2 overall and 4-0 in the conference, while RPI drops to 5-6 and 2-2.

It was a team effort for the visitors, who had eight players score between six and nine points with no one reaching double figures. Annabella Yorio scored nine with five rebounds and Emily Dorn notched eight points with a game-high nine boards. Camryn Coffey also scored eight points and Zoraida Icabalceta filled the box score with six points, five rebounds, five steals, two assists, and a blocked shot.

RPI senior Lolo Reynolds led all scorers with 12 points, while Heather Converse and Brielle Sharry both had six. Converse, a forward, added two assists and four steals.

Ithaca led from the start, getting on the scoreboard 2:17 into the contest with a pair of made free throws from Dorn. After RPI made it 6-5, Ithaca responded with a Hannah Polce trey that was followed by a jumper in the paint from Lindsey Albertelli. The Bombers closed the quarter on an 11-2 run that was capped off by a Dorn layup with two seconds left.

Cara Volpe extended the lead back to 14 points thanks to her jumper in the paint that made it 23-9 early in the second quarter. The Engineers closed the gap to eight points with 5:04 left in the half after a pair of free throws by Reynolds, but an and-1 courtesy of Yorio got the momentum back on IC's side to make it 30-19. Ithaca went into the break with a 32-23 lead despite the Engineers shooting 71.4 percent (5 of 7) from the floor in the second.

The Engineers cut the lead to eight points on two occasions in the third quarter, but a Coffey 3-pointer with 1:41 left in the frame sparked a 7-0 run to close the period at 47-32 for the Bombers. Ithaca outscored RPI 15-13 during the final 10 minutes of play and kept RPI to just 29.6 percent (16 of 54) shooting from the floor and 28 percent (7 of 25) from beyond the arc.

IC, which had 10 different student-athletes score, went 11 of 11 from the free throw line.