Box Score

INDIANA, PA – Sarah Pastorek (Johnstown/Bishop McCort) finished one away from a career-high with 27 points and freshman Leslie Stapleton (Indiana, Pa. /Indiana) scored a season-high 15 points as IUP rolled to an easy 89-67 victory over Mansfield in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) women's basketball crossover matchup on Sunday afternoon at the Memorial Field House.
 
The Crimson Hawks, 6-0 and 4-0 in PSAC, took the lead early in the game with pair of layups by Pastorek. The game would then go back-and-forth with both the Hawks and the Mountaineers battling with the lead, as neither team led by more than three points for the next five minutes.
 
Mansfield's only three leads of the game would coming during this time with a pair of three-pointers by Meredith Hafer and Mallory Moore, before the Hawks scored six straight points, with foul shots coming from Arika Ullman (Baltimore, MD/Seton Keough) and a three ball by Talen Watson (Odenton, MD/Arundel), to go on top 19-13.
 
After a layup by Mansfield cut its deficit to four, IUP scored the next seven points, getting a layup by Vianca Tejada (Pennsauken, NJ/Cherry Hill East), followed by a traditional three and a layup by Amy Fairman (Creekside, Pa. /Marion Center), as the Hawks went up 26-15 with 10:21 left in the first.
 
The Mountaineers stopped the IUP run with a layup, but the Hawks responded with a 15-2 run over the next 6:32 to take a 41-19 lead, with Jen Rasko (Windber/Windber) and Tejada each knocking down threes and Pastorek scoring five of her points. After getting its lead cut to 18 just before half, IUP got a three by Leslie Stapleton (Indiana, Pa. /Indiana) with nine seconds remaining to head into the locker room ahead 46-21.
 
The Hawks held a consistent lead throughout the second half, never allowing Mansfield to get closer than 17 points. Going on top by as many as 26, IUP outscored the Mountaineers 46-25 en route to the 22-point victory.
 
Mallory Moore led the Mountaineers with 16 points, grabbing five rebounds, and adding four assists and three steals in 26 minutes. Monique Webley came off the bench to score 12 points while Julia Stevenson added 10 points.
 
Pastorek scored her 27 points in 26 minutes, going 11-of-14 from the field and 5-of-7 from the foul line. She grabbed eight boards, five on the offensive end, added two steals.
 
Stapleton went 3-of-5 from three-point range and 5-of-10 from the floor overall, getting four offensive boards and five assists in 25 minutes. Two other Hawks reached double-figures in scoring, with Ashley Stoner (Pittsburgh, Pa. /Thomas Jefferson) getting 12 and Tejada adding 10.
 
IUP returns to the court next Friday and Saturday, traveling back east in another PSAC crossover weekend, facing East Stroudsburg and Kutztown.