NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The University of Pennsylvania women's basketball team put together a dominant effort, getting back into the win column with a 80-60 victory over Yale Saturday evening at the John J. Lee Amphitheater.
 
The Quakers improve to 11-9 and 2-5 in Ivy play, snapping a three-game losing streak while the Bulldogs fall to 2-18, 1-6 in conference action.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Penn snapped a three-game losing streak and won its 50th game all time against Yale. The Quakers now lead the all-time series, 50-43.
 
*Stina Almqvist led Penn with a team-high 18 points on 50 percent (6-for-12) shooting. She also had seven rebounds and was 5-for-6 from the free-throw line.
 
*All three of Simone Sawyer, Mataya Gayle, and Katie Collins had 17 points. Collins was excellent from long range, going 4-for-4 from deep. She also had four assists, three rebounds, and a block.
 
*Lizzy Groetsch made her first start since November and tallied a career-high five steals on the defensive end.
 
*Penn forced 18 Yale turnovers, turning those into 32 points.
 
*The Quakers outscored the Bulldogs in fast-break points, 12-0.
 
*Penn shot 53.2 percent (25-for-47), the first time it shot 50 percent or higher since Nov. 26, 2024 vs. Immaculata.
 
*The Quakers' three-point shooting percentage of 72.7 percent was the team's best in the Mike McLaughlin coaching era.

How It Happened
The Quakers won the opening tip, but their first shot attempt fell short of the cup. Yale scored the game's first points with a jumper to go up 2-0.
 
Mataya Gayle had Penn's first four points of the night to take a 4-2 edge, and Katie Collins scored her first three-pointer to make it a 7-2 game.
 
Collins' second triple and another great look by Gayle had the Quakers ahead by 10, 16-6, at the under-5 media timeout with 4:10 remaining in the period.
 
The contest saw Yale go on a 6-0 run out of the timeout to trim the Penn lead down to 19-14 with under two minutes to play. Gayle halted it with her fifth basket of the game to go ahead 21-14.
 
Penn ended the stanza on a 5-2 push following a layup for Collins and a three-pointer at the buzzer from Saniah Caldwell, giving the Quakers a 26-16 advantage heading into the second quarter.
 
Collins continued her scorching start with her third three-pointer of the night to extend the Penn lead to 32-19 with 7:25 to play in the half. With that, she had 12 points.
 
Both teams stayed relatively even for the remainder of the second quarter, Penn taking a 41-30 lead into the locker room at halftime.
 
The Quakers excelled from the field over that first 20 minutes, shooting 56 percent (14-for-25) from the field and 71.4 percent (5-for-7) from beyond-the-arc.
 
Collins opened the third quarter the same way she ended the first two with her fourth three-pointer of the night, extending Penn's lead to 46-32.
 
Yale had the Penn lead trimmed down to 12 points at the under-five media timeout with 3:59 to play. At that point, the Bulldogs had converted four of their last five shot attempts.
 
Back-to-back baskets from Simone Sawyer—a trey—and a layup for Almqvist upped the Quakers' lead to 17 points at 57-40 with 1:35 remaining in the third frame.
 
Penn ended the third quarter on a 10-2 run following two foul shots from Almqvist and Sawyer's layup-and-one, leading 62-42 heading into the fourth.
 
The Quakers opened the fourth quarter on a 6-2 run, leading by 24 points with 7:50 left after an Almqvist three-pointer. From there, Yale scored seven unanswered to trim the deficit to 68-51 with 5:31 remaining.
 
The Bulldogs never got closer than 17 points the rest of the way with Penn scoring the final three points on free throws for Saniah Caldwell, settling for an 80-60 win.
 
Up Next
The Quakers head to Old Nassau to face archrival Princeton next Saturday, closing the book on a four-game road trip. Tipoff from Jadwin Gymnasium is set for 2 p.m.
 
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