University of Rochester women's basketball wrapped up its home schedule on a high note, defeating the Brandeis University Judges, 71-47, after celebrating its three-member senior class on Sunday afternoon inside the Louis Alexander Palestra.
 
Graduate guard Franki Gomez led URochester with 17 points, one of three Yellowjackets in double figures along with Grace Corelli, who tallied a double-double with 13 points and a team-high 11 rebounds, while Deniz Alparslan added 12 points, six rebounds and six steals.
 
Alparslan got the scoring started for the Yellowjackets after the Judges and 'Jackets opened the first quarter with three-plus minutes of scoreless play, breaking the seal 3:05 into the first. And while Abby Kennedy gave Brandeis the lead with the game's next five points, Franki Gomez connected on a three to even the score at five-all four minutes in.
 
The Judges then retook the lead on Sofia Berisha's pull-up jumper, taking a 9-7 lead after Saviah Shabazz and Corelli traded jumpers, but that'd be the last lead Brandeis would hold the rest of the way.
 
Rochester ended the first quarter on a 7-0 run, holding the Judges scoreless for nearly four minutes to end the quarter, and kept things rolling into the second, holding Brandeis scoreless for another three-plus minutes and opening the stanza with a 12-2 run.
 
In total, from the 3:32 mark of the first till the 5:12 mark of the second, the Yellowjackets outscored Brandeis, 19-2, holding the Judges to just 1-for-13 from the floor and forcing five turnovers, while URochester shot 7-for-15 and 3-for-4 from beyond the arc themselves.
 
Two Peyton Jones free throws tied the score at nine with 3:32 left in the first, while Gomez's two and Corelli's three sent Rochester into the second quarter with a 14-9 lead.
 
Annelise Dexter then cashed a triple on Rochester's first possession of the second to open up an eight-point lead, while buckets from Gomez and Corelli again stretched the 'Jackets' advantage to double digits, 21-9, with 6:36 left until the halftime buzzer.
 
Brandeis finally got on the board in the second quarter on Berisha's pull-up jumper, but another five points from Alparslan and Corelli gave Rochester a 15-point advantage midway through the quarter.
 
A 5-0 spurt from the Judges would pull Brandeis back within 11 with 1:40 to play in the first, but free throws from Alparslan and Bridget Miller gave Rochester a 14-point lead, before a late jumper from Berisha made it a 12-point game, 34-22, at the half.
 
Rochester again got on a run to start the third, stretching its lead to 21 with a 12-5 run to open the frame. Dexter started the scoring with back-to-back turnaround jumpers, sandwiched around the Judges' first bucket of the quarter, while three-straight layups from Gomez and Corelli made it a 19-point URochester advantage with less than five minutes to play in the third.
 
And despite the Judges doubling up the Yellowjackets over the final four minutes of the third, the Yellowjackets still lead by 15, 48-33, heading to the fourth, and quickly put the game out of reach.
 
Elena Delicado got the Judges on the scoreboard first to start the fourth, but the 'Jackets would hold Brandeis without a field goal for the next four minutes. Behind a 13-1 run, URochester over just 2:52, the 'Jackets put the game out of reach and took their largest lead of the afternoon with 5:34 to play.
 
Following Delicado's bucket, Miller and Alparslan went 3-for-4 at the line to push Rochester's lead up to 16, while four-straight points from Gomez made it a 23-point game, 59-36, with 6:33 left.
 
URochester forced a trio of turnovers and held Brandeis to just 1-for-3 from the field over the three-minute stretch, while after Shabazz got the Judges back on the scoreboard with two free throws, Miller triple extended the 'Jackets' lead to its largest of the game, 64-38, with just over five-and-a-half minutes left.
 
From there, the 'Jackets coasted to victory, with a late Macy Bacon triple making the final score 71-47, after Brandeis closed the gap late to 21.
 
With the win, the Yellowjackets move to 10-12 (3-8 UAA) on the year, while the Judges fall to 13-9 (3-8 UAA) with the loss.
 
As a team, Rochester shot 40.6 percent, 6-for-19 from three and 13-for-20 from the free-throw line, while the Judges connected on 24.6 percent of their attempts, shooting 4-for-12 from distance and 13-for-16 from the line.
 
The Yellowjackets also outscored Brandeis in the paint, 32-10, and 15-8 off turnovers, and outrebounded the Judges, 48-38.
 
URochester hits the road for its final three regular-season contests, beginning with a matchup against Carnegie Mellon on Friday, Feb. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Pittsburgh, PA.