CORTLAND, N.Y. – The Cortland women's basketball team trailed Potsdam by two points midway through the third quarter but finished the period on a 18-5 run on its way to a 72-51 win over the visiting Bears. Cortland (17-2, 13-0 SUNYAC) notched its 16th straight victory, the longest since a 20-game win streak in 2009-10 and tied for the sixth longest win streak all-time in program history. The program record is 22 straight wins to open the 1999-2000 season. 
 
Shannon McGuire (West Babylon) led Cortland with a season-high 26 points. She hit 9-of-14 shots from the floor overall and 5-of-9 from 3-point range, in addition to making all three of her free throws. McGuire scored 18 points in the second half. Corinne Miedreich (Pearl River) made 8-of-12 shots en route to a career-high 19 points and added three assists. 
 
Sarah Tully (East Aurora) finished with nine points and a team-high 11 rebounds. Casey Travers (Manorville/Eastport-South Manor) and Maggie Malone (Cornwall) netted eight points apiece. Malone also had six rebounds and Nyia Longford (Medford/Longwood) led the team with four assists. 
 
Potsdam (11-8, 6-7 SUNYAC) was led by Dyamon Hunter and Jakia Howard with 12 points apiece. Alyson Crosby led the Bears with 11 rebounds, including nine on the offensive glass, and scored nine points, and Howard finished with nine rebounds. Hunter and Mikayla Shipley shared the team lead with three assists each. 
 
Neither team led by more than four points in the first half, and Potsdam took a 27-25 advantage into the halftime locker room. The Bears were still up by two at 36-34 on a Crosby 3-point play with 5:10 left in the third quarter. 
 
Miedreich responded with a 3-point play of her own that gave Cortland the lead for good and started the decisive run at the 4:20 mark of the third. McGuire's jumper at 3:51 and 3-pointer at 2:56, followed by Miedreich's jumper with 2:20 left, pushed the Cortland lead to eight. Later in the period, McGuire converted a 3-point play with 33 seconds on the clock to re-establish an eight-point lead at 49-41, and she sank a 3-pointer at the third quarter buzzer to give the Red Dragons a 52-41 lead. Potsdam got no closer than eight points in the fourth. 
 
Cortland shot 30 percent from the field in the first half but hit 49 percent of its shots in the second half to finish at 39 percent. The Red Dragons made 11-of-32 3-pointers. Potsdam shot 36 percent in the first half but just 23 percent in the second to end at 28 percent. 
 
Cortland hits the road next weekend for games at Oneonta Friday and New Paltz Saturday.