ROCHESTER, NY – The No. 21 RIT (8-2, 3-1 Liberty League) women's basketball team lost its first Liberty League game of the season, falling 66-57 at Rensselaer Polytechnic (6-4, 2-2 Liberty League) Institute Saturday afternoon.

RIT shot 35.3 percent from the floor on 24-of-68 shooting. The Tigers made just 4-of-23 from beyond the arc, and made 5-of-11 from the foul line. Cori Okada (Fullerton, CA/Troy) led RIT with 16 points, six assists and three steals. Brooke Stanley (Minnetonka, MN/Benilde-St. Margaret's) finished with 15 points, while Tara Lynch (Green Township, NJ/Newton) chipped in 11 points and eight rebounds for the Tigers.

Lakissa Martin led Rensselaer with 15 points and 14 rebounds, while Elizabeth Eckhardt tallied 17 points for the Engineers, who shot 40.8 percent from the floor.
 
The Tigers trailed 23-17 after the first quarter, and headed to halftime down 38-31. Stanley led the Tigers with 12 first-half points on 6-of-11 shooting. RIT shot 41.9 percent from the floor in the half on 13-of-31 shooting.

Rensselaer opened the third quarter on a 9-2 run, scoring the first seven points of the second half. Emily Vallee gave the Engineers a 45-31 lead on her jumper at the 4:49 mark of the quarter.
 
Rensselaer led by as many as 16 points in the third quarter, before a late 6-0 spurt by the Tigers cut the RPI lead to 47-37 heading into the fourth quarter.

The Tigers came out on fire to start the fourth, opening the quarter on a 14-1 run. Wolfe gave the Tigers a 51-48 lead on her layup off an assist from Lynch with 5:49 remaining in the quarter. Wolfe scored five of the 14 points in the run, while Okada tallied four.

Rensselaer answered, taking a 56-53 lead on a 3-pointer from Eckhardt with 1:42 remaining in regulation. The Engineers closed the game on a 17-6 run to secure the win.

RIT returns to action on Tuesday, Jan. 8 when the Tigers host Liberty League foe Ithaca College at 5 p.m. on the floor of Clark Gymnasium.