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Moon Township, Pa. / Charles L. Sewall Center – Senior forward
Kelly Hartwell (Woodbridge, Va. / Gar-Field) came off the bench to score 18 points and help the
Robert Morris University women's basketball team snap a five-game losing streak with a 76-63 win over Cornell at the Charles L. Sewall Center Saturday afternoon. The Colonials improve to 4-6 overall while the Big Red drops its second straight to fall to 5-5.
Hartwell went 8-of-10 from the floor and 2-2 from charity stripe to account for her 18 points in just 20 minutes of playing time. Sophomores
Ashley Ravelli (Milano, Italy / The Hun School) and
Lou Mataly (Toulouse, France / Lycee-Bellevue) also reached double digits. Ravelli tallied 12 points and five assists while Mataly tacked on 10 points.
"I was really happy to get a win before the Christmas break. Cornell is a good team. They've had some good wins," said 11
th year RMU head coach
Sal Buscaglia. "I was happy that we won, but more importantly, that it was a total team effort, especially coming off the bench. Jolie (Olingende) played a great game, grinded it out, scored some gritty points and some big rebounds.
Kelly Hartwell certainly did a great job for us and provided us with a spark."
Redshirt-junior
Jolie Olingende (Kishasha, Democratic Republic of the Congo / Arizona Western) had her best game of the season
ripping down 12 rebounds to go with nine points. The transfer from Arizona Western was 3-of-4 from both the floor and the charity stripe.
Senior forward
Artemis Spanou (Rhodes, Greece / Nea Smyrni) finished the game with eight points and six rebounds, ending a streak of 33 consecutive double-doubles that stretched back to Nov. 28, 2012. The streak is the second longest in NCAA Division I history. She averaged 19.2 points and 15.8 rebounds during the nearly 13-month long streak.
Trailing by two after Cornell's Allyson DiMagno scored two of her game-high 19 from the charity stripe, Robert Morris went on a 7-1 run to end the first half and take a 34-29 lead at the break. Hartwell had five of those points, including an old-fashioned three-point play, before freshman
Janee Brown (Mitchellive, Md. / Holy Cross) buried a runner just before the half expired.
The Colonials carried the momentum through the break, building a 46-35 lead as they doubled up the Big Red's point total in the first seven minutes of the second frame. Ravelli had two three-pointers during the surge. Cornell would never get closer that seven points the rest of the way. A 9-0 run, featuring three-pointers by Spanou and Mataly, would help RMU push the lead to a game-high 16 points with 1:48 to play.
Mataly opened the game's scoring with a three-pointer on the first possession. Cornell answered – and then some – as it went on a 10-2 run to take a 10-5 lead. Olingende came in off the bench and made an immediate difference, picking up an offensive rebound and going to the line where she hit two. The Colonials would eventually tie the game at 16-16.
In addition to DiMagno's 19 points, Nia Marshall had 14 points and Kerri Moran had 11. Robert Morris outrebounded Cornell, 32-26, and received 36 points off the bench. RMU shot 55.2 percent in the second half.
The Colonials return to action on Dec. 29 when they travel Cassell Coliseum for a 2:00 p.m. against Virginia Tech.
