Caitlyn Clendenin and Catherine Or posted double-doubles to lead visiting Carnegie Mellon University to  a 66-54 women's basketball victory over the University of Rochester at the Louis Alexander Palestra on Friday night.
 
Between them, the two Tartans combined for 37 points and 27 rebounds. Clendenin scored 20 points, hitting 9 of 15 from the floor, and grabbed 15 rebounds, 11 off the defensive glass. Orr scored 17 points (8 of 13 from the field) and hauled down 12 rebounds, 10 defensively. Leah Weslock was CMU's third player in double figure rebound totals. She had 10. Isha Nambia scored 13 points for Carnegie. She hit three three-point goals.
 
Rochester had two players in double figures. Julianna Okoniewski scored 13 points, had 11 rebounds, and one block. Hannah Lindemuth matched that total with 13. She had seven rebounds and two blocks. As a team, Rochester blocked seven shots – rwo each by Lindemuth and Callie McCulley, one apiece from Okoniewski, Abby Gress, and Charlottte Adler.
 
This was Carnegie's second win in the last three games. The tartans are 11-10 overall, 5-7 in the University Athletic Association. Rochester is 14-9 overall, 6-6 in the UAA.
 
Both teams got off to good offensive starts in the first quarter. Rochester hit 10 of 23 from the floor (.435) and led, 23-18. CMU hit 7 of 20 from the field in the opening quarter (.350). The visitors stayed around that average through the last three quarters.  They finished at .359 (28-78, .227 on three-pointers – 5 of 22) and made five of seven free throws.
 
With Carnegie scoring in the paint (36 points) and playing tough on the boards (35-14 at Rochester's end of the court), the Yellowjackeys had difficulty making sustained runs. A cold-shooting second quarter (3 of 17) led to CMU's 34-30 lead at halftime. Nambisan's three-pointer pushed the Tartan lead to 43-34 midway through the third quarter. It was 49-41 after three.
 
Rochester is back on the Palestra court on Sunday against Case Western Reserve at 2 p.m.