PITTSFORD, NY – Two-time reigning Empire 8 Player of the Year, Sidney Tomasso, teamed up with Katie Moravec to score a combined 44 points, leading the St. John Fisher Cardinals over the Houghton Highlanders in the quarterfinal round of the conference championship, 72-55.
 
Tomasso scored 23 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, logging all 40 minutes on the court, while Moravec added 21 points and eight boards.
 
The Cardinals came out of the gates firing on all cylinders, knocking down 10-of-19 shots (56 percent) in the first quarter, including 3-of-6 from beyond the arc, as they built a 24-15 lead after the first 10 minutes.
 
The Houghton defense tightened up in the second quarter, as the teams played to an 11-11 draw, but Fisher still took a nine-point advantage into the half.
 
The third quarter proved to be the straw that broke the camel's back, as Fisher held the Highlanders to only 26 percent shooting, and 0-for-5 from long distance.  The Cardinals stretched their lead to 17 points, and the Highlanders never recovered.
 
GAME VITALS
Score: #6 Houghton – 55 | #3 St. John Fisher – 72
Records: #6 Houghton: 17-9 |#3 St. John Fisher: 19-7
Venue: Manning & Napier Varsity Gymnasium, St. John Fisher University | Attendance: N/A

NOTABLE STATS
>> Houghton committed only 11 turnovers, but St. John Fisher bested that number, turning the ball over only seven times.
 
>> While Houghton knocked down 9-of-11 from the free throw line, the Cardinals drained an unbelievable 24-of-26 from the charity stripe.  The Highlanders were whistled for 21 personal fouls, while Fisher garnered only 12.
 
>> Over the past three years the Highlanders have won 58 games (the most over a three-year stretch since 1997-2000), and made the Empire 8 conference tournament all three years. 
 
>> This year's team established a new Houghton women's record for made three-pointers in a single season (232), crushing the old record of 194, set by the 2022 team, in three fewer games.
 
>> Kayla Camacho finished with a team-high 21 points, seven rebounds and four assists.  This season she scored 450 total points, which ranks sixth in Houghton women's history for a single season. She scored 20 or more points in a game 12 times, and averaged 17.3 points per game, which led the team and ranked her fourth in the Empire 8.  She also ranked in the top-10 in the conference in assists (10^th), three-point percentage (3^rd), and three-pointers made per game (1^st).   
 
>> Camacho closes out her career with 1,127 points (10^th in Houghton women's history), 450 rebounds, 208 assists, and 144 steals (9^th).  She fell just six steals shy of becoming only the fourth Houghton women's player to record 1,000 points, 450 rebounds, 200 assists, and 150 steals. She accomplished all of this in only three seasons.
 
>> Fellow senior, Abby Guiher, scored seven points in her final game.  Guiher scored exactly 600 points in her career, and compiled 287 rebounds, 122 assists, 99 steals, and 132 made-three-pointers.