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University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Athletics

PITT-JOHNSTOWN MOUNTAIN CATS
77
Winner Pitt-Johnstown UPJ-W 7-4, 4-1 PSAC
48
Shepherd SHEP-W 0-10, 0-5 PSAC
Winner
Pitt-Johnstown UPJ-W
7-4, 4-1 PSAC
77
Final
48
Shepherd SHEP-W
0-10, 0-5 PSAC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 F
Pitt-Johnstown UPJ-W 23 12 25 17 77
Shepherd SHEP-W 9 12 23 4 48

Game Recap: Women's Basketball |

Fasick Leads Women’s Basketball to 77-48 PSAC Crossover Victory at Shepherd and Third Straight Win

Shepherdstown, W.Va.

0Following the holiday break, Olivia Fasick scored 14 of her game-high 19 points in the first half to lead four Pitt-Johnstown double figure scorers in a 77-48 PSAC Crossover victory at Shepherd, Friday evening.  The Mountain Cats made it three straight wins and improved to 7-4 overall and 4-1 in the PSAC West.
 
Fasick got off to the hot start and finished with 19 points, including three 3-pointers and five assists, while Ashley Norling added 11 points, nine rebounds and six assists for the Mountain Cats.  Pitt-Johnstown also got 14 points on 4-7 from long range from Hayden Taylor and 13 points from Makalyn Clapper.  Peyton Alazaus and Cassidy Crawford added eight and seven points, respective in Pitt-Johnstown's balanced attack.
 
After falling behind by five early, Fasick and the Mountain Cats quickly turned it around and outscored Shepherd, 21-2, over the final 6:35 of the opening quarter to build a 14-point lead.  Fasick, who scored 12 points in the quarter, knocked down a 3-pointer at 2:29 to give the lead back to Pitt-Johnstown, before the Mountain Cats increased it to 23-9.
 
Pitt-Johnstown, which hit six 3-pointers and shot and shot nearly 60% over the first 15 minutes, extended the lead to 31-14 on a Norling bucket midway through the second quarter.  The Rams narrowed the gap to 10 on Kendal 00Hafferty's layup and free-throw with 2:12 left in the half, but the Mountain Cats answered with layups from Norling and Fasick to get the lead back out to 14 at 35-21.
 
Pitt-Johnstown never let Shepherd back into the game.  Clapper and Fasick combined for a trio of 3-pointers over the first three minutes of the third quarter to get the lead out to 19 and the Mountain Cats maintained at lead a 15-point advantage the rest of the way.
 
Back-to-Back 3-pointers from Taylor and one from Alazaus with 5:21 to play ballooned the lead to 72-45 and the Mountain Cats cruised to the victory.
 
The Mountain Cats dominated in nearly every statistical Category.  Pitt-Johnstown shot 50.9% (29-57) from the floor and 14-29 from behind the arc, while holding the Rams to just 33.3% (17-51) shooting, including just 1-14 from 3-point range.
 
0Haggerty's 11 points and Meghan Shipley's 10 points paced Shepherd, now 0-10 overall and 0-5 in the PSAC Eastern Division.
 
Pitt-Johnstown returns to the Sports Center to host a PSAC Crossover doubleheader with the men's team against Kutztown on Wednesday starting at 5:30 p.m., before opening PSAC West-play with a home doubleheader on Saturday, Jan. 7 beginning at 1 p.m.




 
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