Women's College Basketball: Holy Family women win CACC, earn NCAA berth

Holy Family will return to the NCAA Division II tournament after rallying for the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference title Saturday with a 79-75 win over host Philadelphia University.

Holy Family, the No. 3 seed in the South Division, is 20-10. The No. 2-seeded Rams are 22-8.

Most valuable player Erin Fenningham (St. Basil) scored 36 points to tie a CACC tournament record set by Goldey-Beacom's Cherrise Graham in 2007.

East Carolina 77, Temple 71 - Senior Tyonna Williams scored 16 points, including the 1,000th of her career, but the Owls (16-16) fell to the Pirates (21-9) in the quarterfinals of the American Athletic Conference tournament in Uncasville, Conn.

Williams has 1,006 career points, ranking 20th on Temple's all-time list.

Penn 56, Cornell 42 - For the second year in a row and third time in program history, Penn has posted a 20-win season.

The Quakers (20-7, 11-2 Ivy League) rolled to their seventh straight road win, beating the Big Red (15-13, 6-8). Unbeaten Princeton visits at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Princeton 63, Columbia 44 - The visiting Tigers (29-0, 13-0 Ivy) won the Ivy title and clinched a fifth NCAA bid in six seasons by beating the Lions (8-20, 2-12) in New York.

West Chester 63, Indiana (Pa.) 59 - Dallas Ely scored a game-high 26 points as the Golden Rams upset the No. 7 Crimson Hawks in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference semifinal in Bloomsburg.

West Chester (24-4) will face California (Pa.) in the final Sunday.