West second-seeded Mercyhurst University knocked down 13 3-pointers and used a 21-5 first half run to open-up a 14-point halftime lead on its way to an 84-66 victory over West third-seeded Pitt-Johnstown in Wednesday PSAC Men's Basketball Tournament Quarterfinals in Erie.  John Paul Kromka scored 16 points and pulled down a game-high 10 rebounds to lead the Mountain Cats, whose season came to an end at 22-9.
 
Caiden Landis had 14 points and six rebounds, while Josh Wise added 13 points and eight rebounds, and Joe Batt netted 13 points off the bench for Pitt-Johnstown.
 
Wise wrapped-up his stellar Mountain Cat career ranked sixth on the Pitt-Johnstown All-time Scoring List with 1,541 points, 14^th on the rebounding list with 522 rebounds, and 15^th on the assists list with 266.  Fred Mulbah will enter his junior season ranked 10^th on the all-time assists list with 353.
 
Mercyhurst hit four of its nine first half 3-pointers in the first five minutes to jump out to a 16-10, before a Wise 3-pointer and a basket from Landis quickly cut it to 16-15.
 
The Lakers got the lead back out to five, but six straight points off the bench from Marcin Wiszomirski gave the Mountain Cats a slim 25-24 advantage with 7:37 left in the half.
 
However, Mercyhurst countered with a 21-5 run over the next six minutes, capped by two of MiyKah McIntosh's 17 first half points and a Steve Cannady 3-pointer, to build the lead to 46-30.
 
Kromka ended the run with a basket in the paint to get Pitt-Johnstown back to within 14 at the half.
 
The Mountain Cats came out in the second half on a 13-5 run of their own to make it 51-45 on back-to-back Batt 3-pointers with just under 15 minutes to go.
 
The Lakers scored the next six points in a 17-6 spurt to extend it to 68-51 on another McIntosh basket at the 9:03 mark.
 
Mercyhurst got it out to 19 at 73-54 with 6:46 remaining and went on to advance to Saturday's PSAC Semifinals with the 18-point victory.
 
Pitt-Johnstown, which out-rebounded the Lakers 39-33, shot 41.7% (25-60) from the floor, 4-14 from 3-point range, and 12-14 from the free-throw line.  Mercyhurst shot 47.6% (30-63) from the field, including 13-31 from behind the arc.  The Lakers were also 11-15 from the line.
 
McIntosh's game-high 27 points paced four Mercyhurst players who scored in double figures.  Zach McIntire had 17 points and seven rebounds, Michael Bradley scored 16 points, and Nicholas Lang had 13 points and six rebounds for the Lakers, who made it 10 straight wins and improved to 20-7.