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Men's Basketball

Mountain Cats Fall at Home to #10 East Stroudsburg

Johnstown, PA

Box Score
10th-ranked East Stroudsburg University broke open a six point halftime lead with an 18-8 run to open the second half on its way to an 81-68 victory over the Mountain Cats, Wednesday night in the Sports Center.  Andrew Cressler's 19 points led the way for Pitt-Johnstown, now 9-5 on the year.
 
East Stroudsburg ran out to a quick 8-0 lead on back-to-back 3-pointers from Rasheed Moore and Whis Grant, but Pitt-Johnstown clawed back to cut it to 12-11 on Paul Weatherly's lay-up and free-throw at14:35.
 
Moore's bucket with 8:46 left in the half extended the Warriors' lead back out to eight, before Ian Vescovi's free-throw with just under a minute remaining made it a two-point game at 34-32.
 
However, East Stroudsburg scored the final six points, including a Matt Tobin driving lay-up as time expire, to rebuild the lead to 38-32 at the half.
 
East Stroudsburg came out on an 18-8 run to push its lead to 56-40 on three consecutive Jamal Nwaniemeka's 3-pointers 5:31 into the second half.
 
Tobin's bucket extended it to 18, but Pitt-Johnstown got it down to 10 on Cressler's jumper at 7:26.
 
That was as close as the Mountain Cats would get.  The Warriors built it to as many as 19 with three minutes to play, before going on to the 13-point win.
 
Cressler scored a team-high 19 points and pulled down six rebounds, while Matt Palo added 14 points for the Mountain Cats in the loss.  Vescovi finished with seven points and a game-high 13 rebounds.  Bill Luther, A.J. Leahey, and Adam Shaheen all tallied six points.
 
Luther stands in 23rd-place on the Mountain Cat All-Time Scoring List with 1,039 points and third on the career-3-Point Field Goals List with 220.
 
The Mountain Cats closed out the night shooting 42.9% (27-63) from the field, but just 2-10 from 3-point range and 12-23 from the free-throw line.  East Stroudsburg shot 42.0% (29-69) from the floor.  However the Warriors knocked down 12 3-pointers and hit 11-15 from the charity stripe.
 
Nwaniemeka's game-high 20 points led East Stroudsburg.  Grant scored 15 points and Moore finished with 13 points for the Warriors, who remained undefeated and improved to 14-0.
 
The Mountain Cats will host a PSAC doubleheader with the Lady Cats against California University (PA) on Saturday beginning at 1 p.m. in the Sports Center, before traveling to Seton Hill for another conference doubleheader next Wednesday.
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