ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. - The Catholic University women's basketball team posted a convincing 70-52 win over Elizabethtown in the semifinals of the Landmark Conference Women's Basketball Championship Wednesday.

The 25th-ranked Cardinals (20-4) avenged two regular-season losses to the Blue Jays while earning their 20th victory of the season which marks their sixth 20-win campaign in the last 10 full seasons.

Catholic, who entered the game ranked sixth in NCAA Region V, advances to the Landmark Conference championship game for the eighth time overall and the sixth time in the last eight years.

Freshman Carly Mulvaney led the Cardinals with 16 points and nine rebounds. In three meetings against Elizabethtown this year, she averaged 11.7 points and 6.7 rebounds which included her first career double double back on Jan. 31 when she had 17 points and 10 rebounds, both career highs.

Mulvaney was one of three players who just missed a double double for Catholic as junior Rachel Bussanich had 14 points and nine rebounds and junior Amelia Baldo had nine points and a career-high 11 rebounds.

Baldo grabbed six rebounds in the first quarter as the Cardinals jumped out to a 19-9 lead. They outrebounded the Blue Jays, 17-9, and scored 12 points in the paint.

Catholic led by as many as 11 in the first half before taking a 31-25 halftime advantage after back-to-back three-pointers by Mulvaney to end the second quarter.

Elizabethtown (20-5) cut its deficit to five with 1:51 left in the third, but that would be as close as it would get as the Cardinals outscored the Blue Jays, 21-12, in the fourth, scoring 13 points from the free throw line where they were 13-for-14.

Mulvaney totaled eight points and six rebounds in the decisive fourth quarter while going 6-for-6 from the line.

Senior Amanda Johnson finished with 12 points, seven rebounds, five assists and two blocks while senior Luca Mamula added seven points, four rebounds and two blocks.

No. 25 Catholic will face a top-25 match-up for the second-straight Saturday as it takes on rival and No. 16 Scranton in the championship game. The Cardinals and Royals will be meeting to decide the Landmark Conference champion for the seventh time, including the third-straight year. Tip-off from John Long Center is at 4 p.m.