Women's Basketball 6/18/2013 10:26:00 AM

Lady Cats Suffer 81-67 Loss at WV State

01/08/2011

Andrea Dalton (Washington, D.C.) had a double-double of 25 points and 15 rebounds, but West Virginia State University built a 16-point second half lead and went on the hand the Lady Cats an 81-67 WVIAC road loss on Saturday. Pitt-Johnstown fell to 4-7 overall and 2-5 in conference play.
Sheena Aden (Sandy Lake, Pa.) and Andrea Dalton (Washington, Pa.) combined to score 14 of the first 16 Lady Cat points to put Pitt-Johnstown up by two seven minutes into the game.
West Virginia State then used a 14-5 run over the next 5:39, capped by Melissa Ford's lay-up, to give the Yellow Jackets a 28-21 lead with just over seven minutes left in the first half.
The Lady Cats battled back to cut it to 28-27 on Rachel Johnson's (Palmyra, Pa.) basket at the five-minute mark, but West Virginia State responded and took its largest lead of the half at 35-27 on a pair of Chelsey Davis free-throws at 3:47.
The Yellow Jackets held the lead and went into the halftime break up, 41-33.
Kayla Loughner's (Brinklow, MD) bucket two minutes into the second half cut the Lady Cat deficit to 43-38, but West Virginia State scored the next six to build the lead to 49-38 at 16:27.
Dalton's fastbreak lay-up with 13:09 to play cut it to 51-44. However, Davis' basket at 7:42 ended an 11-2 Yellow Jacket run to build the lead to 62-46.
Pitt-Johnstown pulled to within eight on another Dalton basket with 1:43 remaining, but it never got any closer and West Virginia State went on to the 14-point win.
Dalton scored 25 points and grabbed a game-high 15 rebounds to pace the Lady Cats. Aden scored 12 points and had three rebounds, while Loughner added 11 points and four rebounds. Grace Hyland (Pittsburgh, Pa.) and Maria Montini (Irwin, Pa.) each scored six points, and Kelly Goode (Cincinnati, OH) collected six rebounds and dished out five assists.
Aden currently stands in 14th-place on the Lady Cats All-Time Scoring List with 1,301 points and 24th on the all-time rebounding list with 487 rebounds, while Dalton is 25th on the scoring list with 1,076 points and 28th on the all-time rebounding list with 450.
The Lady Cats struggled from the field, shooting just 34.3% (24-70) and 5-16 from three-point range. Pitt-Johnstown, which out-rebounded West Virginia State 45-42, was also 14-16 from the free-throw line. The Yellow Jackets shot 45.8% (33-73) from the floor, 5-11 from behind the three-point line and 10-13 from the charity stripe.
Davis led West Virginia State with a game-high 29 points and 10 rebounds. Ford added 18 points for the Yellow Jackets, who improved to 5-9 overall and 3-5 in the WVIAC.
The Lady Cats travel to Alderson-Broaddus (WV) College for a WVIAC game on Monday, before hosting WVIAC rival Davis & Elkins (WV) College on Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Sports Center as part of a doubleheader with the Mountain Cats.

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