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Pitt-Johnstown used a 24-4 run to erase an 11-point deficit, but Wheeling Jesuit (WV) University battled back to force a pair of overtimes, before holding off the Lady Cats, 72-65, in a New Year's Eve non-conference game in Wheeling, W.Va.
 
Olivia McCabe had 20 points and 13 rebounds to record her seventh double-double of the season to lead Pitt-Johnstown, which slipped to 6-7 overall.
 
Wheeling Jesuit jumped out to a 7-2 lead on Mariah Callen's 3-pointer three minutes into the first quarter.  Pitt-Johnstown got a free-throw from McCabe and a jumper from Laurel O-Barto to cut it to 7-0, but the Cardinals answered with an 11-2 run over the next five minutes to build an 11-point advantage.
 
Callen added six more of her 10 first quarter points, and Cassie Stein followed with a basket to put Wheeling Jesuit in front 18-7 with just over two minutes remaining in the quarter.
 
After Jaila Bryant's bucket early in the second quarter extended the Cardinals' lead back to 11, Kayla DeCriscio and the Lady Cats took control and outscored Wheeling Jesuit 18-4 the rest of the way to take a three-point halftime advantage of their own.
 
DeCriscio scored seven straight Pitt-Johnstown points to narrow the gap to four, before she connected on her second 3-pointer of the quarter to get the Lady Cats to within one at 24-23 with 2:59 left.
 
Pitt-Johnstown continued the run and took its first lead of the day on a Nicole Corcoran lay-up at 1:11.  Jasmine Harper then scored in the paint as time expired to give the Lady Cats a 29-26 lead at the break.
 
Three-pointers from Ana Hollen and Olivia Rizzo to start the second half extended the Pitt-Johnstown run to 24-4 and built the lead to 35-26.
 
The Cardinals clawed back to within two at 39-37, but six more points from McCabe and a free-throw from Corcoran gave the Lady Cats a 46-39 lead after three quarters.
 
Wheeling Jesuit came back again.  This time, the Cardinals used a 12-3 spurt to regain the lead 51-49 on Chanelle Moore's basket with 3:40 remaining.
 
Wheeling Jesuit held the two-point lead until McCabe's lay-up with 21 seconds tied it at 54 and sent the game to overtime.
 
In the first overtime, Jamie Tabon's bucket at the 3-minute mark put Pitt-Johnstown up 59-56, but Kylie Frizell hit a jumper with six seconds left to knot it at 60 and force a second overtime.
 
A Taylor Lubinsky 3-pointer and a lay-up from Moore off of a Lady Cat turnover gave the Cardinals a 65-60 advantage less than a minute into the second overtime.  Callen's free-throw at 1:13 increased it to 68-61, and the Cardinals went on to the seven-point victory.
 
McCabe's 20 points and 13 rebounds led three Lady Cats who scored in double figures.  Hollen finished with 13 points, four rebounds, and seven assists, while DeCriscio added 10 points, all in the first half.  Tabon chipped-in seven points and a career-high 10 rebounds off the bench, and Harper had four points and seven rebounds in a losing cause.
 
Harper currently stands in 28^th-place on the Lady Cat All-Time Scoring List with 1,116 points and 13^th on the All-Time Rebounding List with 671 rebounds.
 
Both teams struggled shooting the ball.  Pitt-Johnstown shot 35.3% (24-68) from the field, 5-19 from 3-point range, and just 12-26 from the free-throw line.  The cardinals were held to 36.2% (25-69) shooting, 2-9 from behind the 3-point line, and 20-31 from the charity stripe.
 
Moore scored a game-high 24 points and grabbed nine rebounds to pace Wheeling Jesuit to its eighth straight victory.  Callen and Bryant each collected 15 points for the Cardinals, who improved to 9-1 on the year.
 
The Lady Cats travel to Millersville University for a PSAC Crossover game on Sunday, before returning home to host three straight conference doubleheaders with the Mountain Cats beginning with Shippensburg University on Wednesday.  The Lady Cats will open Wednesday's doubleheader at 5:30 p.m. in the Sports Center with the men's game to follow at 7:30 p.m.