LOUIS ALEXANDER PALESTRA – In its season opener against Buffalo State College, the University of Rochester women's basketball team did all the little things that lead to victory: the Yellowjackets hit the backboards, they used the fast break to a supreme advantage (46 points), they scored in transition (32 points from 23 Bengal turnovers), and they shot the ball well (45% for the game).
 
Add it all up and it led to a 91-55 Rochester victory. Five players scored 10 or more points for UR. Haley Dumiak scored a career high 19 points, aided by 8-11 accuracy from the field and 3-4 outside the arc. Hannah Lindemuth scored 12 points. Kat Jenks had 11 points. Maura Leverone and Charlotte Adler had 10 points each.
 
Game scoring honors went to Katie Villarini of Buffalo State. She finished with 25 points, aided by a 10-11 appearance at the foul line. Tashawni Cornfield scored 10 points and Zavia Jaime had eight.

 

Rochester held a 60-41 edge on the backboards. UR turned 21 offensive rebounds into 19 second chance points. Leverone, Abby Gress, Kelsey Stites, and Jayda Starckey grabbed three offensive boards apiece. Julianna Okoniewski led all rebounders with nine boards. Gress and Starckey had eight, Leverone finished with seven.
 
Buffalo State (0-1) held the lead for the first eight minutes. The Bengals were up, 14-11, after one free throw by Jaime with 3:54 remaining in the first. Dumiak drove for a layup and was followed immediately by an Adler layup. That keyed an 11-2 burst to give Rochester a 22-16 lead at the quarter.
 
A 12-point run in the middle of the second quarter stretched the lead to 20, 42-22. Jenks scored on a conventional three-point play to start it. She added a layup later in the burst. Adler had two driving layups and Dumiak swished a trey from the top of the key. Rochester led, 50-30, at the half.