CLINTON, S.C. – The Presbyterian College women's basketball team ended the 2011-12 season in style on Monday night, as Mariah Pietrowski (Elizabethton, Tenn.) tied a Division I-era record with 26 points to help PC to a 77-68 win over Charleston Southern at Templeton Center.

PC ends the season at 14-15 overall and 8-10 in Big South Conference play, both records for the program since moving to Division I in 2007-08. Charleston Southern sees its regular season end at 16-13 overall and 9-9 in league action as the Buccaneers finish fifth in the conference.

The win gives PC its first against Charleston Southern since January 2, 1990, a span of eight straight losses.

Pietrowski's 26 points tied Amanda Mills' 26 set against Stetson on December 18, 2008 for the most points in a single Division I game. The junior went 10-for-21 from the floor, matching Katlin Moore's 2009 mark PC Division I mark for most field goals in a game.

The Blue Hose broke a 4-4 tie with a Pietrowski layup 4:23 into the game and never looked back, taking a seven-point lead into halftime and leading by as many as 14 in the second half.

Pietrowski and Chelsea Parker (Asheville, N.C.) led the Blue Hose with eight rebounds on the night.

Senior Kristen Stevens (Pickerington, Ohio) hit a three-pointer to end her career with an even 600 points, the fourth-most in PC's Division I history. She will also leave PC with the fifth-most career three-point field goals, tallying 142.

Charleston Southern's Lakeitha Alston paced Charleston Southern with 23 points. Rachelle Coward chipped in 20.

PC started strong, wrestling an early lead from the Buccaneers and going up by eight with 13:05 left in the first half. Charleston Southern cut the PC lead to three before battling to a 21-21 deadlock with 7:08 before the break.

A Karlee Taylor (Asheville, N.C.) three-pointer broke the tie to begin a 12-5 run for the Blue Hose. PC kept its lead to at least two possessions and a Parker layup with 1:13 left in the period sent the teams into halftime with PC ahead, 37-30.

Charleston Southern shot 57.1 percent from the floor in the first half (8-14), but PC's 14 field goals put the home side in front.

Parker picked up from where she left off to start the second, knocking down a trey to give PC a double-digit lead for the first time.

The Blue Hose pushed its lead to 14 with 12:24 remaining and against with 10:50. Charleston Southern received 18 points from Alston and 14 from Coward in the second half, but only six more from Shay Jones as PC shot 53.8 percent (14-for-26) in the period to seal the win.