The Misericordia University men's basketball team dropped its exhibition game at D1 Cornell, 114-70, Wednesday afternoon.

Ace Varella led the Cougars with 10 points while Eli Stoute and Nate Townsend added in eight as 13 Cougars scored.

Ian Glassmacher grabbed four rebounds and Jack Gallagher collected four, while Arvel Chandler totaled four steals in the match.

Townsend opened the scoring for the Cougars as he knocked down a three from Matt Prociak less than a minute into the game.

Chandler missed on the driving layup but grabbed his own rebound and converted on the second chance basket with a little over 17 minutes to go.

Prociak got on the board with a three pointer of his own off the Darryl Wright dish with 7:27 left in the half.

Varella converted two free throws to finish the first half as the Cougars trailed 68-34

At the start of the second half, Chandler drove in to the basket and converted to get the Cougars on the board first, followed by a pull up jumper the next possession.

Mike Smith drove in and converted the layup through the foul. He made the free throw to close out a three-point play with just under 10 minutes left in the half.

Bryson Fenwick converted on back-to-back pull up threes as the Cougars went on a 9-0 run late in the game.

Cornell went on a 21-12 run in the last eight minutes to close out the game.

Misericordia will travel to Swarthmore College, Tuesday.