The Pitt-Johnstown men's and women's basketball teams will wrap-up the regular season with a PSAC doubleheader against Mercyhurst, Wednesday night in the Sports Center, before beginning postseason-play on Monday.  The women will tip-off at 5:30 p.m., with the men's game against the Lakers to follow at 7:30 p.m.
 
Pitt-Johnstown, under sixth-year Head Coach Mike Drahos, clinched a spot in the PSAC Tournament and improved to 13-14 overall and 9-11 in the conference following Saturday's 65-61 Senior Day win over Slippery Rock.  Alli McGrath poured in a game-high 28 points and pulled down five rebounds, and Gabrielle Smith collected 23 points to lead the Mountain Cats.
 
After reaching the 1,000-point milestone at Seton Hill on Wednesday, Smith scored 23 more points against Slippery Rock on Saturday and moved into 36^th-place on the Pitt-Johnstown All-Time Scoring List with 1,034 career points.  She is now just 21 points shy of climbing six spots and tying Janet Kartovicky (1983-87) for 30^th-place on the scoring list.
 
Nationally, Smith ranks 27^th in points per game (19.3 ppg.) and second in both free-throws made (215) and attempted (267), while Nicole Olkosky is 50^th in blocked shots (43) and McGrath is 68^th in scoring (17.2 ppg.).
 
Head Coach Deanna Richard's (12^th season) Mercyhurst Lakers, 9-17 overall and 6-13 in the PSAC, have lost their last two games, including a 62-60 setback at Gannon on Saturday.  Nicolete Newman scored 16 points, and Amber Renz and Eliza Oswalt each had 11 points.
 
Nationally for the Lakers, Emily Shopene is 64^th in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.7), 69^th in assists (104), and 71^st is assists per game (4.0).
 
Pitt-Johnstown traveled to Erie on January 21 and came away a 67-57 victory behind Smith's game-highs of 21 points and eight rebounds.  Tori Moreland and McGrath added 15 and 14 points respectively for the Mountain Cats.  Mercyhurst was led by Jenna Kunst's 17 points, while Renz had 11 points and Shopene chipped-in 10 points.
 
Pitt-Johnstown, which will be the No. 5 or No. 6 seed in the Western Division, will open the PSAC Tournament on Monday at a site and time to be determined.  The winner will advance to the PSAC Quarterfinals next Wednesday.
 
 
Head Coach Bob Rukavina's Mountain Cats, 15-12 overall and 10-10 in the PSAC West, clinched the No. 4 seed and will host an opening round conference tournament game on Monday after celebrating Senior Day with a 98-84 win over Slippery Rock on Saturday.  Josh Wise, the PSAC West Co-Player of the Week, scored a game-high 30 points, and Fred Mulbah and John Paul Kromka each scored 15 points to lead five Pitt-Johnstown players who scored in double figures against the Rock.  Caiden Landis had 12 points, and Marcin Wiszomirski added 11 points off the bench.
 
Wise enters Wednesday's game ranked 23^rd on the Mountain Cat All-Time Scoring List with 1,109 points, just one point shy of Paul Byer (2002-05) for 22^nd-place on the list.
 
Nationally, Kromka ranks fifth in blocks (70), seventh in blocks per game (2.59), and ninth in field goal percentage (63.0%), and Mulbah is 60th in assists per game (5.0), And 72nd in total assists (124).
 
Mercyhurst, the No. 3-seed in the West for the PSAC Tournament has won its last three games and comes in at 19-5 overall and 14-5 in the PSAC under 15^th-year Head Coach Gary Manchel.  The Lakers are coming off of a 63-58 win at Gannon on Saturday.  Jason Massey finished with a game-high 20 points and Nelson Maxwell scored 13 points for Mercyhurst.
     Nationally for Mercyhurst, Massey is 47^th in field goal percentage (55.6%), while Patrick Smith is 60^th in rebounds per game (8.4 rpg.) and Edvaldo Ferreira is 62^nd in blocked shots per game (1.46).
 
Mercyhurst holds a 24-22 lead in the series that dates back to the 1971-72 season.  The Lakers have won the last five meetings, including a 74-69 win in Erie on January 21.  Wise and Landis had 21 and 15 points respectively, and Kromka added 12 points and 12 rebounds to lead Pitt-Johnstown.  Maxwell had a game-high 31 points, Massey scored 15 points, and MiyKah McIntosh had 12 points for the Lakers.
 
The Mountain Cats will host a first-round PSAC Tournament game against the West No. 5-seed, which is yet to be determined, on Monday at 7 p.m. in the Sports Center.  The winner will advance to the PSAC Quarterfinals at the top-seeded team, which also has not been determined, next Wednesday.