Noelle Carota had 17 kills, while Caitlin Vrabel and Maura Brehl added 15 and 14 kills, respectively, but East Stroudsburg rebounded from an opening set loss with three straight wins to remain unbeaten in PSAC-play with a 3-sets-to-1 victory over Pitt-Johnstown, Friday night in East Stroudsburg.  The Mountain Cats slipped to 7-9 overall and 2-3 in the PSAC Central Division.
 
Pitt-Johnstown took the first set, 25-23, but the Warriors answered with 25-18, 25-22, and 26-24 wins, to improve to 15-2 overall and 5-0 in the PSAC Southeast.
 
After Andrea Coyle's kill gave East Stroudsburg a one-point lead midway through the opening set, Pitt-Johnstown went on an 8-1 run, capped by a Tatiana Pitcher kill and a Warriors' attack error, to take a 21-16 lead.  East Stroudsburg battled back to make it 24-23, but Pitt-Johnstown used another kill from Pitcher to take the set, 25-23.
 
In the second set, the Warriors outscored the Mountain Cats 8-2 to build a 16-10 lead on a Tina Predojevic ace and a Jasmine Williams kill.  Two kills each from Carota and Vrabel got Pitt-Johnstown back to within two at 17-15, but East Stroudsburg pushed it out to 23-18 and went on to the 25-18 victory with Sarah Smith's kill and a block by Predojevic and Williams.
 
Kills from Brehl and Carota gave Pitt-Johnstown a slim lead to begin the third set.  The Warriors came back to tie it on three occasions, before Sam Dunphy's kill put East Stroudsburg back on top, 19-18.  Pitt-Johnstown regained the lead by two on kills from Carota and Longeville, but the Warriors scored the final five points to take a 2-sets-to-1 lead with the 25-22 win.
 
The Mountain Cats erased a 3-point deficit to tie it on several occasions, before back-to-back aces from Vrabel gave Pitt-Johnstown a 14-12 lead.  However, with the score tied at 24, East Stroudsburg got a kill from Smith and a combined block from Dunphy and Trea'sure Ketter to seal the match with a 26-24 victory.
 
Carota had 17 kills, three blocks, and six digs, while Vrabel collected 15 kills and three aces, and Brehl tallied 14 kills and 12 digs to lead Pitt-Johnstown.  The Mountain Cats also got three kills and nine blocks from Johns and five kills from Pitcher.
 
Longeville finished with a match-high 46 set assists, eight digs and four blocks, and Erin Carmondy had a match-high 30 digs for Pitt-Johnstown.
 
Smith's 18 kills, nine digs, and five blocks, and Caylinn Davis' eight kills, 10 digs, and three blocks paced East Stroudsburg.
 
Pitt-Johnstown travels to PSAC matches at Kutztown on Saturday and Shippensburg on Tuesday, before returning home to host conference matches against Millersville on Friday at 7 p.m. and West Chester on Saturday, October 6 at 1 p.m. in the Sports Center.