Box Score CORTLAND, N.Y.—While the temperature may have plummeted across the Northeast, William Smith College basketball's Sasha Borenstein was red hot from beyond the arc, leading the Herons to an 81-63 win at SUNY Cortland this afternoon. The senior guard tied a 22-year-old school record by sinking nine 3-pointers for a career- and game-high 27 points.

Cortland (6-3) opened the game on a 13-2 run, including seven points from Meghan Touhey. She finished with a team-high 18 points and eight rebounds. 

William Smith (6-2) countered with a 16-2 scoring surge, led by Borenstein's long range efforts. She kick started the run with a triple and finished it off with three straight treys to give the Herons a 3-point lead.

The Red Dragons' Brittany Rando made a 3-pointer at the other end of the floor to tie the game. William Smith scored the next four points to retake the lead. Grace Williamson's jumper with 6:19 left in the first half, trimmed Cortland's deficit to just one, 28-27, but the Herons ended the half on a 14-4 run to carry a 42-31 lead into the locker room. Senior guard Erin O'Brien accounted for seven of her 15 points during the run. She recorded a game-high eight assists.

William Smith shot 53.6 percent from the floor, including 6-of-15 from beyond the arc, in the opening 20 minutes, while limiting the Red Dragons to 37.8 percent shooting (3-14 3FG).

Like in the first half, Cortland got off to a fast start, opening the second half on a 17-6 run. Touhey tied the game for the final time with a jumper five minutes into the final stanza. Both teams went cold over the next two minutes, going a combined 0-for-6. First-year Melanie Patterson (9 pts) snapped the Herons out of the funk first, scoring three of her nine points in the game.

William Smith maintained the lead for the remainder of the contest, breaking the game open with 12 consecutive points. Junior forward Chloe Hayter fueled the run with six of her 18 points. She also recorded seven rebounds and two blocked shots.

A 3-pointer by Touhey and a layup by Lindsey Minor made it an eight-point game with 7:04 left, but Borenstein drilled a triple, her eighth of the game, to push the Heron lead back into double digits for good. Her ninth trey, with 3:22 on the clock, tied Jill Brower's school record. Borenstein didn't take another shot in the game, settling for a share of the mark.

William Smith shot 50 percent from the floor for the game, 42.9 percent from 3-point range, and 70.4 percent from the free throw line. Cortland made just 32.5 percent of its shots from the field, was 6-of-29 from deep and was just 5-of-12 at the line.

Senior Jacqueline Murphy paced the Herons on the glass, corralling a team-high 10 rebounds.

Erin Wolstenholme logged a double-double on 12 points and 10 rebounds and a game-high four steals for Cortland. Williamson added 16 points.

William Smith will play its final non-conference game of the season on Sunday, Jan. 5, when the Herons host the University of Rochester in Bristol Gym. Tipoff is scheduled for 2 p.m.