Clarion visited the Sports Center on Saturday and dealt the Pitt-Johnstown volleyball team a 25-18, 25-18, 25-14 PSAC Western loss.  Grace Miller had nine kills and Lualis Alvarado added seven kills for the Mountain Cats, now 11-6 overall and 4-4 in conference-play.
 
Pitt-Johnstown scored five of the first six points to open the match and got a kill from Alvarado to open-up at 13-8 lead.  Clarion came back to outscore the Mountain Cats 17-5 to take the set, 25-18.   A 9-1 Golden Eagle run, capped by a Cassidy Snider kill and a London Fuller service ace, gave Clarion 17-14 advantage, before a kill from Lauren Aichinger wrapped-up the set.
 
Fuller's kill midway through the second set put the Golden Eagles on top, 12-7.  Three straight points by the Mountain Cats, including two more kills from Alvarado, got Pitt-Johnstown back within two, but Clarion used a pair of kills from Julia Piccolino to extend it to 18-12.  The Mountain Cats got as close as three on Lexi Pendergraft's service ace, but the Golden Eagles took a 2-sets-to-1 leads with another 25-18 victory.
 
In the third set, two kills from Miller and one from Katelyn Courtney gave Pitt-Johnstown a narrow one-point advantage, before Clarion broke it open with a 10-1 run to make it 17-9 on Snider's kill.  The Golden Eagles went on to the three-set sweep with the 25-14 win.
 
Miller had nine kills and a pair of block assists, while Alvarado had seven kills and eight digs to lead the Mountain Cats.  Cassie Pascarella chipped-in five kills, Lauren Gechter had four kills, and Courtney had three kills, a solo block, and three block assists.
 
Pitt-Johnstown also got 25 set assists and eight digs from Adiamar Beaz and two assists and 14 digs from Erin Carmody.
 
Clarion, which made it four straight wins and improved to 14-6 overall and 6-2 in the PSAC West, was led by Snider's match-high 17 kills and Piccolino's 16 kills and 14 digs.
 
The Mountain Cats host a PSAC Western Division match against Slippery Rock on Friday at 7 p.m. in the Sports Center, before traveling to a conference match at Mercyhurst on Saturday.