ERIE- The Pitt-Greensburg women's basketball team (7-14, 6-8 AMCC) had four players in double-figures on Saturday afternoon, but Penn State Behrend (9-12, 8-6 AMCC) played great defense limiting the Bobcats to just 30.5% shooting from the field as the Lions held on for a 64-53 victory Saturday afternoon.

Penn State Behrend led 31-24 at the halftime break, but Pitt-Greensburg held the Lions to just nine points while countering with 14, but Behrend outscored the Bobcats 24-15 in the final quarter to hang out for the victory.

Senior Lyndy Baer led the way for the Bobcats with 13 points and dished out three assists, while Sylvia Stuart, Jenna Cole, and Kelsey Oddis all had double-figure scoring outputs for Pitt-Greensburg with 12 points each. Casey Hamilton was a beast on the glass hauling down a game-high 11 boards, six of which came on the offensive glass and also was a menace on defense for the Bobcats with three steals.

Offensively for Behrend, Heidi Langhorst led the way with 17 points and completed the double-double with 10 rebounds.

Both teams got off to a slow start in the opening quarter as neither side scored until the 8:08 mark when Oddis put the Bobcats on the board with a layup and 43 seconds later, Erika Woll answer for the Lions with a layup of her own to tie the game at two.

With just over three minutes left in the first stanza, Pitt-Greensburg led 11-6 on a three-pointer by Oddis, but the Lions clamped down on defense and held the Bobcats scoreless for the remainder of the quarter while scoring six straight points and would take a 12-11 advantage into the second quarter.

The second quarter followed a similar store to the opening quarter as the two sides continued to trade baskets early on and with 3:27 left in the half, Cole's layup tied the game at 22 for Pitt-Greensburg. Just like the opening 10 minutes, Penn State Behrend went on a 7-0 spurt over the next three minutes and the Lions would go into the halftime intermission holding a 31-24 lead.

Just over three minutes into the second half, the Lions extended their lead to to nine, but the Bobcats continued to chip away at the deficit and with 1:07 left in the quarter a three-pointer by Cole cut the Behrend lead to two heading into the final 10 minutes.

Two free-throws less than 30 seconds into the final quarter by Baer tied the game at 40 for Pitt-Greensburg, but that was the closest the score would be for the remainder of the contest.

Baer was at it again when she nailed a jump shot to cut the Behrend lead to 44-42, but the Lions sprinted out to a 6-0 run and would never look back as the Lions held on for the 64-53 victory.

Pitt-Greensburg returns to the court Wednesday, when it travels to Franciscan for a 6:00 p.m. start.