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Lady Cats Fall at Home to WV Wesleyan

02/23/2011

Andrea Dalton (Washington, Pa.) scored 22 points and pulled down 11 rebounds, but West Virginia Wesleyan College used 59% shooting to build a 22-point second half advantage en route to dealing the Lady Cats an 86-68 loss Wednesday night in the Sports Center. Pitt-Johnstown has dropped its last two games and slipped to 15-10 overall and 13-8 in the WVIAC.
Kayla Loughner (Brinklow, MD) scored eight early points, and Sheena Aden (Sandy Lake, Pa.) hit a lay-up and free-throw to give the Lady Cats a 16-11 lead seven minutes into the game.
West Virginia Wesleyan got it down to two on a Brianna Welch basket a minute later, but Pitt-Johnstown scored six of the next eight over the next 2:14 to take its largest lead of the first half at 24-18 on Rachel Johnson's (Palmyra, Pa.) lay-up at 9:52.
However, the Bobcats outscored the Lady Cats 22-9 the rest of the way to build a seven-point halftime advantage. Danae Hill's basket put West Virginia Wesleyan up for the first time at 25-24 with 7:18 left, before two Jasmine Brown free-throws made it 27-24 to cap a 9-0 run.
Dalton scored the next four to put Pitt-Johnstown back in front with 4:27 remaining, but the Bobcats took control and extended the lead to 40-33 on another Welch bucket just before the break.
West Virginia Wesleyan held onto the momentum to start the second half. Jamie Kaufman's lay-up at 17:06 pushed the lead to 48-35.
The Lady Cats cut it to 11 on the next possession, but the Bobcasts extended the margin to 58-41 on Kaufman's basket in the paint at the 11:43 mark.
Dalton's three-pointer midway through the half got Pitt-Johnstown to within 10, but it never got any closer.
West Virginia built the lead to as many as 22 with just under left, before going on to the 18-point win.
Dalton paced four Lady Cats who scored in double-figures with 22 points and a game-high 11 rebounds. Aden scored 13 points, while Johnson chipped in 11 points and eight rebounds off the bench. Loughner finished with 10 points, and Sara Trimarco (Hollidaysburg, Pa.) grabbed six rebounds.
Aden stands in fifth-place on the Lady Cat All-Time Scoring List with 1,547 points, and 19th on the all-time rebounding list with 556 rebounds, while Dalton is 12th on the scoring list with 1,356 points and 17th on the rebounding list with 585.
Pitt-Johnstown shot just 34.7% (27-68) from the field and 6-20 from behind the three-point line. The Lady Cats also connected on 8-9 from the free-throw line. The Bobcats shots an impressive 59.3% (35-59) from the floor. West Virginia Wesleyan was also 4-7 from three-point range and 12-15 from the charity stripe.
Kaufman poured in a game-high 25 points and had seven rebounds to lead West Virginia Wesleyan. Welch (18 points), Hill (14 points), Lydia Bridenbaugh (12 points) and Brown also scored in double-figures for the Bobcats, who improved to 17-8 overall and 14-7 in the WVIAC.
The Lady Cats wrap-up the regular season at Seton Hill University on Saturday, before opening the 2011 WVIAC Tournament on Monday.

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