Behrend Women's Basketball Falls to Pitt-Greensburg in AMCC Game

The Penn State Behrend women's basketball team dropped a 79-64 decision to visiting Pitt-Greensburg in an AMCC contest on Saturday, December 13 at the Junker Center in front of 212 fans.  With the win Pitt-Greensburg improves to 8-1 overall and 4-0 in AMCC play, while Behrend falls to 3-5 overall and 2-2 in league play.

In the first half the visiting Bobcats came out firing, building a 19-4 lead behind the strong play of Amanda Sheaffer who scored 15 first-half points.  The Behrend Lions cut the lead to 22-11 with seven minutes to play and the teams battled to a 36-23 halftime score in favor of Pitt-Greensburg. Natalie Engel (McDonald, Pa./Fort Cherry) led the blue and white in the first half with seven points in 16 minutes played.

In the second half the Behrend Lions would twice cut the Pitt-Greensburg lead to six.  First, using a 14-7 run to open the second half to make it a 43-37 game with 16 minutes to play and again getting it to six at 50-44 with 12 minutes remaing.  The visiting Bobcats settled down and built there lead back up past double digits to earn the victory and stay undefeated in AMCC play.

Leading the blue and white in scoring was Kelly Nowacinski (Erie, Pa./Mercyhurst Prep) who had 16 points to go with her six boards.  Also in double figures was Engel with 13 and Amy Oldach (Erie, Pa./Villa Maria Academy) with ten.  Also putting up solid numbers was Christine Krankota (Conneaut Lake, Pa./Conneaut Lake) who had seven points and a team-high 11 rebounds.

Sheaffer led Pitt-Greensburg with 21 points while Kelsey Wilcox posted a double-double with 13 points and 12 rebounds.

The blue and white are off until after the new year.  The squad will return from winter break to play three straight on the road, starting with a 6:00 p.m. January 5 contest at Grove City.