Box Score
Ana Hollen's 3-pointer with 11 second remaining made it a one-point game, but Pitt-Johnstown's 3-pointer at the buzzer would not fall, and the Lady Cats suffered a 61-59 PSAC road loss at Edinboro University, Saturday afternoon.  Olivia McCabe and Jamie Tabon each had 13 points and six rebounds for Pitt-Johnstown, which slipped to 7-11 overall and 4-8 in conference-play.
 
Following a slow start by both teams, Edinboro used an 11-5 run to open-up a 19-11 lead.  Aignee Freeland and Lauren Hippo combined for 10 of the Fighting Scots' first 10 points to give Edinboro a four-point advantage.  Katie Fisher followed with a 3-pointer to increase it to seven, before three straight free-throws from Fisher made it 19-11 with 1:34 left in the first quarter
 
Pitt-Johnstown scored the next seven points to cut it to 19-18 on baskets from Tabon and McCabe and 3-pointer from Nicole Corcoran's, but Whitney Allen's put-back as time expired in the quarter  put the Fighting Scots in front 21-18.
 
Edinboro quickly regained the momentum and outscored the Lady Cats, 9-2, to push the lead into double figures at 30-20 on Fischer's jumper three minutes into the second quarter.
 
The Fighting Scots never let Pitt-Johnstown get any closer the seven the rest of the half and got a free-throw from Cheniya Sharpe with four seconds left and took a 36-27 lead into halftime.
 
Pitt-Johnstown opened the second half with a conventional 3-point play by Laurel O'Barto and a three-pointer a 3-pointer from McCabe to get to within three.
 
After Edinboro scored the next four to rebuild its lead to 40-33, Pitt-Johnstown got it down to three on a pair of Agnes Aramina free-throws, but three consecutive makes from the line in the final 13 seconds by Allen and Michelle Jahn in the final 13 seconds gave Edinboro a 47-41 advantage entering the fourth quarter.
 
Jasmine Harper's basket in the paint two minutes into the fourth quarter made it 47-45.
 
However, the Lady Cats could not get over the hump.  Edinboro got its lead back out to seven at 54-47 on Freeland's lay-up and free-throw at the five-minute mark.  Pitt-Johnstown's continued to battle and got Hollen's 3-pointer to cut it to 60-59 with 11 second left.  Fischer then hit one of two from the line to make it a 2-point game.  Pitt-Johnstown had one final chance, but Kayla's DeCriscio's 3-pointer at the horn did not drop.
 
Along with McCabe and Tabon's 13 points and six rebounds, Pitt-Johnstown also got 11 points and seven rebounds from Harper.  Hollen finished with five points and five assists, and Corcoran scored five points for the Lady Cats.
 
Harper currently stands in 24^th-place on the Lady Cat All-Time Scoring List with 1,160 points.  Harper is also12^th on the All-Time Rebounding List with 701 rebounds.
 
Neither team had a good day shooting.  Pitt-Johnstown shot 38.2% (21-55) from the field, 5-19 from 3-point range, and 12-19 from the free-throw line.  Edinboro, which held a 45-35 advantage in rebounds, was held to just 31.7% (19-60) shooting, including just 3-14 from behind the 3-point line.  The Fighting Scots got the job drone from the charity stripe, connecting on 20-27.
 
Fisher tallied a game-high 18 points, and Freeland chipped-in 15 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Fighting Scots, who made it three straight wins and improved to 12-6 overall and 7-5 in the PSAC Western Division.
 
The Lady Cats travel to Slippery Rock for a PSAC game on Wednesday, before returning home to host a conference doubleheader with the Mountain Cats against Clarion on Saturday starting at 1 p.m. in the Sports Center.