Box Score
It was another career-night for
Kayla DeCriscio. After scoring 24 points in Tuesday's opener, DeCriscio came back with seven more 3-pointers and a career-high 26 points to lead the Lady Cats to a 91-58 non-conference victory over Washington Adventist (MD) University, Thursday evening in the Sports Center.
Head Coach
Mike Drahos earned his first win at the helm of the Pitt-Johnstown program, and had his team even its record at 1-1.
Decriscio and
Kelsey Sleighter started the night with back-to-back 3-pointers, before another one from
Nicole Carman gave the Lady Cats a 12-2 lead five minutes into the game.
Washington Adventist battled back to cut it to 21-15 on a Rashawnda Carter lay-up at 11:09, but Pitt-Johnstown outscored the Shock 15-2 over the next six minutes to build the lead to 36-17 on another DeCriscio 3-pointer.
Washington Adventist never got closer than 15 the rest of the way. Sleighter scored to extend it to 20 late in the half, before the Lady Cats took a 41-23 halftime advantage into the locker room.
It was more of the same in the second half. One of
Leah Hansen's four 3-pointers pushed the lead out to 31 with 12:31 to play.
Jamie Tabon then gave Pitt-Johnstown its largest lead of the night at 89-50 with a 3-pointer with just under three minutes remaining, and the Lady Cats cruised to the 33-point win.
DeCriscio led all scorers and four Pitt-Johnstown double-figure scorers with 26 points on 8-11 shooting, including 7-10 from behind the 3-point line. DeCriscio also grabbed nine rebounds, while Carman finished with a double-double of 14 points and 10 rebounds. Hansen had 13 points, and
Inaya Stephenson tallied 10 points and six rebounds off the bench to round out the double-figure scorers. The Lady Cats also got nine points and nine rebounds from
Jasmine Harper in the lopsided win.
Pitt-Johnstown, which held a convincing 69-43 advantage on the glass, shot 38% (31-81) from the floor, but hit 15 of its 38 (39.5%) 3-pointers. Washington Adventist was held to just 30% (24-80) shooting from the floor and 1-5 from behind the 3-point line.
Carter's 24 points and five rebounds paced the Shock, which dropped to 2-1 on the year.
Pitt-Johnstown will open PSAC-play at Indiana University (PA) on Wednesday, before hosting a conference doubleheader with the Mountain Cats against Edinboro University on Saturday, November 23 at 1 p.m. in the Sports Center.
