KEUKA PARK, N.Y. – The women's basketball team got back on the winning track on Saturday afternoon with a 97-55 victory over Keuka College. The Yellowjackets are 6-3 overall. They will play at Ithaca College on Tuesday night before taking the extended holiday break. UR completes its non-conference schedule with a game at RIT on January 4. The University Athletic Association season will begin on January 8 with a visit from travel partner Emory University.
 
Five players scored in double figures. Alexis Sestric scored 17 points. Julianna Okoniewski scored 14, grabbed 11 rebounds, handed out four assists, made three steals, and blocked two shots. Kat Jenks scored 11 points, as did Abby Gress and Hannah Lindemuth. Maura Leverone had six assists and four points. Callie McCulley scored eight points.
 
For Keuka (1-7), Amelia Poole and Lauren Hill had 16 points apiece. Sydney Brown scored eight. The Wolves earned their first win of the season three days earlier, defeating Pitt-Bradford.
 
Rochester sank a dozen three-point goals. Sestric made four – three in the first quarter alone when Rochester jumped in front, 28-13. Jenks, Lindemuth, and Franki Gomez had two each. Kelsey Stites and Gress hit one apiece.
 
The Yellowjackets out-rebounded Keuka, 59-27. They were nearly even at Rochester's end of the floor (Keuka had 20 defensive boards, Rochester had 18 offensive rebounds). UR used that dominance to produce 18 second-chance points. The Yellowjackets scored 21 points on fast breaks.
 
Keuka put together an eight-point flurry late in the second quarter (five points from Hill, two from a Poole layup, and one free throw by Julia Bauder). They opened the third quarter on a 6-2 run (three more points from Poole and a conventional three-point play by Hill). Rochester answered that with a 14-0 run – five points from Jenks, a traditional three-point play by Sestric (she had six overall in the burst), plus layups by Okoniewski, Leverone, and McCulley.