GREENSBURG, Pa. -- Despite a strong start and three-point lead at halftime, the Allegheny College men's basketball team dropped Saturday's road contest against the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, 90-81.

Allegheny (1-1) began its season-opening win at Carlow University on Wednesday by scoring the first 15 points of the game. The Gators started Saturday's matchup with Pitt-Greensburg (3-0) in a similar fashion, as Pijus Latauskas (Vilnius, Lithuania/Kiski Prep (Pa.)) and Ryan Lang (Sarver, Pa./Knoch) combined for eight unanswered points in the first two minutes of action. Allegheny took its largest lead of the afternoon midway through the opening half, when Jayson Perry (Tampa, Fla./Sickles) deposited a fastbreak layup to put the Gators on top by 12 points, 25-13.

From there, the Bobcats used a 19-6 run to erase the deficit and pull ahead by one at 32-31. However, down 37-35, the Gators closed the half with seven of the last nine points. The key play was an and-one from Perry, which helped Allegheny enter the break up 42-39.

Coming out of the halftime intermission, Pitt-Greensburg's Matthew Marinchak found his groove. He made three consecutive 3-pointers as part of a 9-2 Bobcat run that quickly turned the three-point deficit into a 48-44 advantage. After breaking a 52-52 tie, Pitt-Greensburg took the lead for good with approximately 14 minutes remaining. Lang sank another trey to bring the Gators within one point, 60-59, midway through the second half, but the Bobcats extended their cushion to as many as 11 points over the next five-and-a-half minutes. 

With a little over a minute to go, Lincoln Brockmeyer (Akron, Ohio/Copley) scored a 3-point field goal that brought the Gators within one possession of the hosts at 83-80. But after two points on the other end from Pitt-Greensburg's Trent Rozich, Brockmeyer missed his next attempt from beyond the arc. The Bobcats responded with four points over the next 30 seconds to put the game out of reach.

Inside the Box Score

• The Gators shot 46.3% overall (25-of-54) and 76.5% from the foul line (26-of-34).
• The Bobcats finished with a game-high 56.1 field-goal percentage (32-of-57), including an 11-of-19 (57.9%) performance from 3-point range.
• Rebounds were tied at 33-all, and both teams committed 13 turnovers.
• Lang led all Gators with 22 points and four steals.
• Latauskas was one rebound shy of a double-double with 17 points and a team-high nine boards.
• Perry and James Sitter (Erie, Pa./Fairview) both reached double-digit points with 16 and 14, respectively.
• Marinchak, one of five Bobcats in double figures, paced all scorers with 28 points while making 10-of-12 field goals (83.3%) and 7-of-8 3-pointers (87.5%).

News and Notes

• The all-time series between Allegheny and Pitt-Greensburg is tied at 2-2.
• Lang made nine field goals and surpassed 20 points for the second game in a row.
• Latauskas has scored double-digit points in each of the first two games of his Allegheny career.
• The Gators made 26 free throws against Pitt-Greensburg, the most since making 27 tries from the charity stripe in the 2024-25 opener against Penn State Behrend.

Up Next
Allegheny's 2025-26 home opener is scheduled for Wednesday, November 19, at 7 p.m. against Oberlin College inside the David V. Wise Center.