ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- Both teams held at least a nine-point lead in Wednesday night's Landmark Conference opener at Thompson Gym between the Elizabethtown College women's basketball team and visiting Catholic. It was the Cardinals that would prevail in overtime with a 79-70 win. Summer McNulty had a team-high 24 points while Makenna Mummert recorded a career-best 22 points in the loss.

Elizabethtown (4-2) started off slowly to begin the game, hitting on just 4-of-16 shot attempts. The Blue Jays did help themselves at the line, going 8-for-10 in the opening quarter as they trailed by eight, 25-17, after one. Catholic (6-0) shot 10-for-18 in the first, but would cool off in the second as their 15-point lead had vanished.

Etown was able to maneuver their way back into the game in the second as they held the Cardinals to 14.3 percent shooting. The first of Catholic's field goals came in the first 40 seconds on a transition bucket by Amelia Kennedy. A split at the free throw line followed by back-to-back layups by Mummert cut the deficit in half to five, 27-22, with 6:10 to go in the second.

As the Jays did in the first, the Cardinals did in the second quarter, using free throws to stabilize the scoring. CATHU was 5-for-6 in the second at the foul line. Carly Mulvaney, who went 10-for-10 in the game at the charity stripe, hit a pair and then Sarah White knocked down two to restore the lead to nine with just over three minutes to go before halftime.

A 7-0 run capped off by McNulty's layup off her own miss got Etown back within two, 31-29, with 1:34 left. The Blue Jays would trail by three at the half, 34-31.

Unlike the start of the game, Elizabethtown came out flying in the third. First, Mummert connected on a jumper in the paint and then, on the next possession, found Cyleigh Wilson for three to give the Jays the lead. The run didn't stop their as McNulty cashed in from beyond the arc to extend it to five. Mummert's layup made it seven and Cass Peris dished to Wilson for a reverse layup to make it nine to force Catholic into a timeout.

McNulty and Mummert helped keep the pace going. Mummert's jumper in the paint with a fraction of a second to go was good to send Etown into the fourth ahead by nine, 51-42.

Catholic got back into the game thanks to the sharpshooting of Kerry Flaherty, who knocked down multiple treys in the fourth. The Jays' lead had shrunk to three with just under five minutes remaining in regulation after Flaherty drilled one from deep.

Jessica King had seven of her eight points in the second half and her and-one with 2:01 remaining pushed Elizabethtown's advantage back up to eight.

The Cardinals fought back as Mulvaney hit a three at the other end. Flaherty then scored five straight points to knot the game up at 64-64 with 40 seconds left.

Neither side could find a final bucket as the game needed overtime to decide the winner.

Wilson provided Etown an early two-point lead on a pair of made free throws, but Flaherty dropped in another three to return the lead back to Catholic. She would hit another two possessions later. That three put the Cardinals ahead 70-68 and from there they outscored the Blue Jays 9-2 to take home the conference victory.

Elizabethtown will look to get back on track at Lycoming on Saturday, December 2, at 4 p.m.