CORTLAND, N.Y. – Senior Brittany Cohen (Fayetteville/Jamesville-DeWitt) scored 18 points to lead four Cortland players in double figures as the Red Dragons defeated Geneseo, 75-66. Cortland evened its SUNYAC record at 3-3 and is 8-5 overall. Geneseo drops to 2-2 in the conference and 6-4 overall.

Senior Molly Byrne (Syracuse/Bishop Ludden) finished with 16 points, freshman Erin Wolstenholme (Oneonta) tallied a career-best 12 points and senior Micki Volpini (Newfield) scored 10 points. Cohen and Byrne also finished with five assists, four rebounds and two steals each. Volpini dished out four assists and shared the team lead along with sophomore Megan Touhey (Maine/Maine-Endwell) with five rebounds.

Katelyn Charbonneau (Baldwinsville/C.W. Baker) paced Geneseo with 15 points and 11 rebounds and also had four assists. Shannon McGinnis (Walworth/Gananda) totaled 12 points and six rebounds and Melissa Graham (Orchard Park/Mt. Mercy) finished with eight points, five assists and six rebounds. Lea Sobieraski (Lockport) and Katie Peterson (Ithaca) each registered nine points and eight rebounds.

Byrne scored 11 of Cortland's first 15 points, including three shots from three-point range, and the Red Dragons led 15-13 with 14:49 left in the first half. Cortland led by as many as 12 points in the first half at 43-31 with 4:08 remaining after a Cohen three-pointer, but the Knights scored the final 10 points of the half – including three-pointers by Charbonneau and Cara Manfredi (South Glastonbury, CT/Glastonbury) – and trailed by only two at halftime.

Cortland outscored Geneseo 17-2 over the first 9:08 of the second half to take a 60-43 lead. Cohen and Wolstenholme each scored five points during that stretch. The Red Dragons' lead reached 19 at 65-46 on a Byrne trey with 9:18 left.

Geneseo, however, quickly mounted a 10-0 run that featured three-pointers by Bri Dunton (Middlesex/Marcus Whitman) and Charbonneau and was within nine with 6:33 left. Cortland answered with a Wolstenholme bucket at the 6:15 mark to go up 11. Wolstenholme scored nine of her 12 points in the second half. The Knights made one more push and were within 69-62 on a McGinnis three-point play with 1:33 left, but the Red Dragons held on.

Cortland will host Oneonta on Friday, Jan. 13, at 6 p.m.