POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) women's basketball team flipped a halftime deficit with a blistering third quarter and closed out Vassar, 52–41, inside the Athletic & Fitness Center.

Siena Smith led the attack with 13 points on 5-of-8 shooting, drilling a pair of early threes and finishing with three assists and three steals. Niamh Gendron delivered 12 points and a team-high eight rebounds with three steals and Tyler Hormazabal was perfect from the field (5-for-5) en route to 11 points, six boards and four steals. Sophie Costello added eight points, three rebounds and two steals and Brooke Boyle chipped in eight points and four rebounds. 

Down 27–18 at the break after a cold second period, the Engineers roared out of the locker room with a 22–8 burst. Brooke Boyle scored at the rim to start it, Gendron buried a right-wing three, and Hormazabal stacked a pull-up and a coast-to-coast finish off a steal to knot it at 29–29.

Costello then knifed into the lane for back-to-back layups, pushing RPI ahead for good, before Gendron sprinted out for a fast-break layup and added the and-one free throw to make it 40–33 late in the frame.

RPI kept its foot down in the fourth as Boyle hit a short jumper, Gendron scored twice more in the paint as RPI extended the margin into double digits int he final quarter.

The Engineers dominated the interior for 32 paint points and turned Vassar over 23 times, which converting into 21 points for RPI.

Winners of three of their last four games, the Engineers will carry momentum into a 2:00 pm contest tomorrow at William Smith.