{"id":38118,"date":"2025-11-19T00:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/38118\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:35:14","slug":"pitt-falls-to-scranton-69-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/38118\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitt Falls to Scranton, 69-63"},"content":{"rendered":"

PITTSBURGH \u2013 The Pitt women’s basketball team fell to Scranton by a score of 69\u201363 at the Petersen Events Center Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The Panthers (2-2) had three reach double figures. Fatima Diakhate<\/a> paced the Panthers with an efficient 17 points on 8-of-11 shooting and grabbed 9 rebounds in 36 minutes of action. In her first start of the season, Carla Viegas<\/a> knocked down 6-of-12 field-goal attempts, including 4-of-8 from long range for 16 points, including 10 in the third quarter. Angel Jones<\/a> tallied 15 points, nine of which came in the second half, as well as three rebounds and three assists.<\/p>\n

How It Happened<\/p>\n

The Royals (3-0)\u00a0came out hot, connecting on six of their first nine\u00a0three-point attempts and took a 37\u201327 lead into the break. Pitt responded with a dominant third quarter, outscoring Scranton 23\u20137 to take a 50-44 lead into the final ten minutes of play, but couldn’t sustain the momentum in the fourth, as Scranton pulled away late.<\/p>\n

Game Notes<\/p>\n


\n\tLauren Rust<\/a> grabbed 13 boards, a new career high.
\n\tPitt won the rebounding battle 39-34, but lost the turnover battle as they gave it up twice as many times as Scranton, 18-9.
\n\tThe Panthers\u00a0had the edge in points in the paint, 36-20.
\n\tViegas and Jones recorded season highs in points with 16 and 15, respectively as well as assists, with 3 each. <\/p>\n

Ticket Information<\/p>\n

Single game tickets for upcoming games can be purchased HERE<\/a>. All seating in the Petersen Events Center will be General Admission, excluding VIP Courtside.<\/p>\n

Up Next<\/p>\n

Pitt will face Le Moyne Tuesday night at 6 p.m. in the second meeting of the two programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2013 The Pitt women’s basketball team fell to Scranton by a score of 69\u201363 at the Petersen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-38118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}