Josh Wise scored 18 points to become Pitt-Johnstown's 30^th 1,000-point scorer on his way to leading the Mountain cats to a 76-65 PSAC victory over Gannon, Saturday afternoon in the Sports Center.  The Mountain cats snapped a seven-game losing streak to the Golden Knights and improved to 13-8 overall and 8-6 in the PSAC.
 
Wise, who entered the game with 986 career points, knocked down a pair of free-throws with 4:44 to play to reach the milestone.  He now has 1,004 career points and is 19 points shy of Josue Nieves for 29^th place on the Mountain Cat All-Time Scoring List.
 
Pitt-Johnstown used a 12-4 run over a four minute span of the first half to erase a one-point deficit and build a 24-17 lead on Jared Jakubick's 3-pointer and a Caiden Landis layup.
 
Six straight points from John Paul Kromka increased it to 30-17 with 6:06 left in the half, before a pair of free-throws from Kromka and one from Olando King, Jr. gave the Mountain Cats a 39-23 halftime advantage.
 
Pitt-Johnstown kept it going to begin the second half.  Wise and Landis each scored in the paint to push it out to a 20-point lead, before Jakubick's bucket at the 13:31 mark gave Pitt-Johnstown its largest lead of the day at 52-30.
 
Gannon tried to get back in it and got a 3-pointer from Daryl Porter at 9:13 to cut it to 13, and two free-throws from Porter at 4:53 made it a 10-point game at 65-55.
 
However, the Mountain Cats hit 7-of-8 free-throws, including five from Wise and a pair from Kromka, over the next two minutes to get the lead back out to 15 at 72-57, and Pitt-Johnstown went on to the 11-point victory.
 
Wise's game-high 18 points paced three Mountain Cat double figure scorers.  Kromka had a double-double of 17 points and 10 rebounds. And blocked four shots, and Joe Batt added 17 points and five rebounds.  Pitt-Johnstown also got seven points from Jakubick, six points and nine rebounds from Landis, and six points and four assists from Romano Sebastiani.
 
The Mountain Cats, who out-rebounded the Golden Knights, 37-26, shot 55.6% in the second half to finish the game at 51.0% (26-51).  Pitt-Johnstown was just 2-11 from 3-point range, but connected on 22-25 from the free-throw line.  Gannon was held to just 39.7% (23-58) shooting.  The Golden Knights were 8-19 from behind the 3-point arc and 11-16 from the charity stripe.
 
Joe Fustine (16 points), DeAnte Cisero (15 points), and Victor Olawoye (10 points) all scored in double figures for Gannon, which dropped to 8-13 overall and 6-8 in the PSAC.

The Mountain Cats travel to PSAC games at Edinboro on Wednesday and Clarion next Saturday, before hosting a conference doubleheader with the women's team against nationally-ranked Indiana (PA) on February 13.  The women will tip-off at 5:30 p.m. in the Sports Center, followed by the men's game at 7:30 p.m.