ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. - Catholic outscored 18th-ranked Elizabethtown 37-19 across the fourth quarter and overtime to pick up a 79-70 victory, improving the Cardinals to 6-0 on the season and 1-0 in Landmark Conference play. Elizabethtown entered Wednesday night's Landmark Conference season-opener ranked in the top 25 of both the WBCA and D3hoops.com polls while the Cardinals received votes in both after a 5-0 start. 

Trailing 51-42 entering the fourth, Catholic trimmed the deficit to four points with a quick 7-2 run across the first 2:30. Kerry Flaherty knocked down a three and converted a layup off an Anna Scoblick feed while Scoblick scored off a pass from Carly Mulvaney to make it a 53-49 game with 7:34 left. 

Summer McNulty scored to extend Elizabethtown's lead back to six with 5:04 to play, but Flaherty drained another three to get Catholic within a bucket. The Cardinals once again fell down by eight points with just 2:04 to play, but Catholic ended regulation on an 8-0 run to force an extra five minutes. Mulvaney and Flaherty both hit threes while Flaherty added a pair of free throws in between. Keegan Douglas had a look before the buzzer sounded, but was turned away, forcing overtime. 

Catholic dominated the overtime period, outscoring the Blue Jays 12-2 over the final 2:19. Flaherty hit her fifth and final three of the contest to put Catholic ahead 70-68 before Mulvaney scored the final nine points as Catholic put away Elizabethtown. 

The Cardinals got off to a red-hot start in the contest, leading 25-10 in the first quarter after a 19-4 run spanning more than six minutes. Catholic shot 56 percent in the first, taking a 25-17 lead after 10 minutes before the Blue Jays swung the game in their direction, outscoring the Cardinals 34-17 over the middle periods to take a nine point advantage into the fourth. 

Catholic will ride its early-season wave of success to D.C. for the first time this season as the Cardinals host Wilkes on Saturday at 4 p.m.

BY THE NUMBERS

• Tonight's win over Elizabethtown marks Catholic's first victory over a ranked opponent since defeating #11 Scranton on January 18, 2020. 
• Mulvaney went the distance for Catholic, scoring a career-high 27 points, grabbing five rebounds, and nabbing five steals. As noted above, Mulvaney scored the final nine points in the contest for Catholic and was a perfect 10-10 from the free throw line. 
• Wednesday marked the first time this season that four different Cardinals scored in double figures. Joining Mulvaney was Flaherty (19), Scoblick (12), and Sarah White (11). Flaherty hit five threes to give her 12 made threes in the past two games. White stuffed the stat sheet with six rebounds, six steals, and four assists in the win. 
• Catholic's Matt Donohue sits just five victories away from 400 for his collegiate coaching career with 277 of them coming at Catholic. 
• With the victory, Catholic improves to 6-0 to start the season for the third time in the last five seasons. 
• Catholic snapped a three-game losing skid to the Blue Jays who took the victory in all three of last season's meetings. 
• Catholic shot 18-20 from the charity stripe, marking just the second time in the past two seasons that the Cardinals shot 90 percent or better from the line. Catholic made 9-10 against Widener in last season's Holiday Tournament. Catholic shot 90 percent or better from the line four times in 2021-22, including a 20-20 showing against Salisbury in November of 2021.