ATLANTA – Rochester could not get anything to click offensively and as a result, lost its regular-season finale to Emory University, 73-57, at the Woodruff PE Center in Atlanta.
 
The loss gives the Yellowjackets a record of 17-8 overall, 8-6 in the University Athletic Association. Emory boosted its record to 15-10 overall, 6-8 in the UAA. Rochester finishes third in the UAA standings behind champion Washington (12-2) and runnerup Chicago (11-3). Rochester gave Washington one of its two losses in the league.
 
Alexandra Leslie led all scorers with 23 points, but hit just nine of 23 from the floor. Lauren Deming was the only other double-figure scorer for Rochester. She had 15 points and led the rebounding effort with nine boards. Lauren Foley scored six points, hitting a pair of treys.
 
Emory was led by Shellie Kaniut with 20 points and seven rebounds. She was 10-17 from the field. Ashley Oldshue had 17 points and five rebounds. Michelle Bevan had nine points and nine rebounds. Fran Sweeney contributed eight points while Erin Lindahl scored six.
 
Rochester made 21 of 63 field goal attempts. The three-point game wasn't able to connect. The Yellowjackets sank three of 18 shots from distance. Foley had two treys and Brenna James had one. Emory was 31 of 63 from the floor (.492), two of six outside the arc (.333) and perfect from the line (9-9).  Deming had 15 points and 9 boards.
 
Emory controlled the backboards, outrebounding Rochester, 40-33. The Eagles also recovered from a sloppy ballhandling start to finish with 17 turnovers, the same number as the Yellowjackets. Rochester's giveaways led to 22 Emory points. UR scored 18 points after Emory turned the ball over.
 
The tone was established early. Emory went on a 19-2 run over the last 6:31 of the first quarter to take a 21-8 lead by period's end. Kaniut had 10 of the 21 points and Lindahl scored four. Rochester's offense was six points from Deming and two points from Leslie.
 
It was Rochester's turn in the second period. The Yellowjackets opened the quarter with an 11-0 rip – six points from Leslie, a layup from Deming, and Foley's trey from right wing. That tied the score at 21-21. Emory reorganized, nibbled its way in front, and left for the locker room ahead, 29-27.
 
The Eagles scored the first six points after intermission (35-27). EU was up, 37-31, four minutes into the period. James drained a trey from right wing, Kaniut hit a foul line jumper. Then Deming drove the lane and Leslie followed by sinking one of two from the line. It got Rochester within 39-37 before the offense went cold. Emory ran off eight points, four from Kaniut, and took a 47-39 lead into the final period.
 
Two layups from Oldshue pushed it to 51-39 early in the fourth. Leslie scored four points around a Bevans drive and Lizzy Atkinson drove for a layup. That cut the deficit to eight points, but was the last time the Yellowjackets got that close.
 
Notes: Leslie's 23 points boosted her career total to 1,386 and pushed her into third place on the career scoring chart… She has 555 points this season, the second highest total in  school history for the women.