NEW PALTZ, N.Y. – Geneseo's Hannah Stockman hit a 3-pointer in the closing seconds to lift the third-seeded Knights past second-seeded Cortland, 61-58, in the SUNYAC women's basketball tournament semifinals at New Paltz.
 
Cortland closes the season with an 18-8 record. Geneseo (19-8) will face host and top-seeded New Paltz in the championship game 4 p.m. Saturday. New Paltz squeaked past fifth-seeded Oswego, 55-53, in Friday's first semifinal game.
 
Logan Streety (Elma/Iroquois) led Cortland with 17 points and 14 rebounds. Mariah Huss (Kenmore/Sacred Heart Academy) scored eight points on 3-of-4 shooting, including two 3-pointers. Emily Morano (Olyphant, PA/Mid Valley) and Brooke Tillotson (Marathon) each finished with six points, five assists and two steals, Jackie Funk (Penfield) scored six points and Kaeli McAnally (Islip) added five points and six rebounds.
 
Kiley Snow scored 18 points and Mackenzie Reigle totaled 12 points, seven assists, three steals and five rebounds for Geneseo. Kerry Dennin led the Knights with 10 rebounds and Stockman and Maggie McGrane scored eight points each.
 
Geneseo led 29-27 at halftime and 46-41 after three quarters. The Knights led by nine points twice in the fourth quarter, the latter at 55-46 on a Dennin layup midway through the period. Cortland, however, quickly trimmed the deficit to a point with 3:41 left after a Streety 3-point play, a Huss 3-pointer and a quick steal by Huss that led to a Streety layup. Cortland kept the run going with baskets by Huss and Morano to take a 58-55 lead with under three minutes remaining.
 
Geneseo, however, tied the game on a Stockman 3-pointer with less than two minutes left. With less than 30 seconds left Geneseo turned the ball over, giving Cortland a chance to possibly hold for a final shot. The Red Dragons, however, turned the ball over and, following a timeout, Stockman hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with less than five seconds remaining. Geneseo broke up two Cortland possessions in the closing seconds and a third possession led to a missed layup as time expired.
 
Prior to the game, Cortland sophomore Lily Woodis (Dewittville/Chautauqua Lake) was presented with the SUNYAC's Elite 20 Award, which goes to the student-athlete at each of the SUNYAC's championship final sites with the highest cumulative grade point average. Woodis is an early childhood education major with a 4.0 GPA.