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Kylie Bridenhagen
Jordan Obi was one of two Penn players with a double-double Saturday at Dartmouth.
53
Winner Penn Penn 9-6,1-1 Ivy League
39
Dartmouth Dart 6-8,0-2 Ivy League
Winner
Penn Penn
9-6,1-1 Ivy League
53
Final
39
Dartmouth Dart
6-8,0-2 Ivy League
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Penn Penn 14 10 18 11 53
Dartmouth Dart 17 9 8 5 39

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Big Second Half Propels WBB Past Dartmouth in Hanover, 53-39

HANOVER, N.H. – The University of Pennsylvania women's basketball team used a strong second half to race by Dartmouth and earn a 53-39 win over the Big Green Saturday afternoon at Leede Arena.
 
The Quakers were down by two at halftime, but outscored their hosts 18-8 in the third and then held Dartmouth without a point for the first seven minutes of the fourth in cruising to the victory.
 
Penn won its 17th straight game over Dartmouth and improved to 1-1 in Ivy League play, 9-6 overall. The Big Green fell to 6-8 overall and remains winless in Ivy play at 0-2.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Penn had two players record double-doubles on Saturday, as Stina Almqvist put up 15 points and 13 rebounds and senior Jordan Obi notched 11 points and 10 boards. For both players, it was their third double-double of the season.
 
*Freshman guard Mataya Gayle flirted with a triple-double as she finished with eight points, seven rebounds and a game-high seven assists. She also had two of Penn's four steals in the game.
 
*Lizzy Groetsch finished with nine points, her best offensive output since scoring nine at Merrimack on December 8. She also had two rebounds, two assists, a steal and a blocked shot.
 
*Dartmouth got 14 points and six rebounds from Clare Meyer, while Mekkena Boyd had six points and led all players with five steals.

How It Happened
The first quarter saw the teams exchange the lead six times and tie two other times. The Big Green was up 17-14 at the end of the period as Meyer converted a Penn turnover into a bucket in the closing seconds.
 
It was 19-14 early in the second when Obi and Gayle scored to get the Quakers within one. After the teams traded points to 21-20, Dartmouth reeled off five in a row to take its biggest lead of the day at 26-20 with 3:38 left in the half. However, Penn held their hosts scoreless the rest of the period, and baskets by Iyanna Rogers—her only points of the day—and Almqvist had Penn within two at the break, 26-24.  
Marianna Papazoglou saw her first action to start the second half and immediately announced her presence, knocking down a three-pointer to put Penn in front 27-26. Dartmouth came back with the game's next three points to go back up, 29-27, before Obi and Groetsch scored four unanswered to make it a 31-29 Penn lead. Meyer tied it one more time, but once again Obi and Groetsch scored and Penn had a four-point lead on an 8-2 run. Dartmouth took timeout, but out of the stoppage Ese Ogbevire scored and the Quakers had their largest lead of the day at 37-31.  
Dartmouth got one of those points back to 37-32, but Almqvist then went on a personal nine-point run that bridged the third and fourth quarters and pushed Penn's lead to a double-digit margin as Dartmouth could only respond with a lone field goal. Almqvist's final bucket in the run made the score 46-34 with a little less than seven minutes left, and the Quakers got their lead to as large as 16 before Dartmouth finally got on the board in the final quarter.  
Up Next
Penn plays its first Ivy League home game of the season on Monday, hosting Cornell in an MLK Day matinee at 2 p.m.
 
For the latest on Penn women's basketball, follow @PennWBB on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram, and on the web at PennAthletics.com.
 
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