Head coach Mike Drahos and the Pitt-Johnstown women's basketball team will put its four-game winning streak on the line with a non-conference game against Salem (WV) University, Wednesday evening in the Sports Center.  Tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m.

Pitt-Johnstown comes in at 6-1 after sweeping a pair of games to open PSAC-play on Nov. 23 and 24.  On November 23, Gabrielle Smith scored 20 points to lead the Mountain Cats to a 59-53 win over East Stroudsburg, before adding 21 more points in a 79-64 victory over Kutztown on Nov. 24.  Olivia Fasick (15 points), Lindsay Shuke (11 points), Maddie Shanahan (10 points), and Ashley Norling (10 points) also scored in double figures for Pitt-Johnstown.

Smith enters tonight's game ranked 20^th on the Pitt-Johnstown All-time Scoring List with 1,220 points and 30^th on the all-time rebounding list with 487 rebounds.

Nationally for the Mountain Cats, Smith leads the country in free-throws made (53), ranks second in free-throws attempted (64) and 41^st in scoring (19.1 ppg.).  Fasick is 13^th in steals (22), 34^th in assists (34), and 59^th in steals per game (2.75), and Makalyn Clapper is 59^th in steals (16).

First-year Head Coach Cody Gilmore's Salem Tigers slipped to 1-5 following a 65-54 home loss to 15^th-ranked Indiana (PA) last Wednesday.  Precious Price and Nia Bishop led the Tigers with 22 and 13 points, respectively.

Nationally for Salem, Bishop is 31^st in steals per game (3.17), 39^th in points per game (19.2 ppg.), and 46^th in 3-point field goal percentage (48.4%).

Pitt-Johnstown and Salem met last season on December 5 in Salem, W.Va. and the Tigers came away with an 86-69 victory behind Bishop's 20 points and Endia Jones' 16 points and 10 rebounds.  The Mountain Cats were led by Smith's game-high 25 points and seven rebounds, Alli McGrath's 20 points and nine rebounds, and Shanahan's 15 points and game-high 11 rebounds.

Pitt-Johnstown will play four consecutive PSAC road games beginning at Bloomsburg on Saturday, before opening the Spring Semester in the Sports Center with a conference doubleheader with the men's team against Gannon on January 6 at 5 :30 p.m.