ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Erin Lillis and Abby Gress combined for 50 points and Rochester shot 56 percent from the floor as the host Yellowjackets defeated Cortland, 91-81, in a non-league women's basketball matchup.
 
Lillis finished with 27 points on 10-of-15 shooting and added six assists and five rebounds, while Gress scored 23 points, including 4-of-5 3-point accuracy, and also totaled nine rebounds, three assists and two blocks as Rochester improved to 6-4 on the season.
 
Joleen Lusk (Cherry Valley/Cherry Valley-Springfield) finished with 24 points, 10 rebounds, six assists and two blocks in 28 minutes of action for Cortland, which fell to 7-2 and had its seven-game win streak halted. Jackie Funk (Penfield) scored 14 points and Bella Zingoni (Kings Park/Long Island Lutheran) hit 5-of-6 field goals, 2-of-3 from the arc, and scored a career-best 13 points.
 
Also for the Red Dragons, Kaeli McAnally (Islip) made three 3-pointers and ended with nine points, six assists, four rebounds and two steals. Kayla Campbell (Franklin/Franklin Central) registered nine points, three rebounds, three assists and three steals and Brooke Tillotson (Marathon) dished out five assists.
 
For Rochester, Franki Gomez and Bridget Miller joined Lillis and Gress as double-figure scorers. Gomez scored 11 points while Miller made all four of her shots from the field and ended with 10 points and three rebounds. Deniz Alparslan pulled down seven rebounds.
 
Rochester shot 33-of-59 from the field, with at least 50 percent accuracy in each quarter. The Yellowjackets hit 53 percent of their 3-pointers (10-of-19) and 94 percent of their free throws (15-of-16). Cortland enjoyed a solid shooting day at 47 percent from the field (32-of-68), 35 percent from 3-point range (8-of-23), along with 9-of-11 free-throw shooting.
 
Cortland led 10-9 with 4:32 in the first quarter but found itself chasing the hosts most of the way after that. Rochester led 20-17 after one quarter and the teams were tied at 32-32 midway through the second period, but the Yellowjackets established a 44-36 halftime lead and led by 11 points twice in the third quarter.
 
Cortland cut its deficit to four points late in the third and trailed by six entering the fourth. Rochester again pushed its lead to 11 points early in the fourth, but Cortland fought back and was within four after a Zingoni layup with six minutes remaining. The Red Dragons were within five points at 82-77 with 2:08 remaining before Rochester closed the game on a 9-4 run.
 
The contest was the final non-league tilt for the Red Dragons. Cortland returns to SUNYAC action Tuesday at Fredonia at 4 p.m.