Junior Mary Kate Cusack became the 22^nd player in the 41-year history of women's basketball at St. John Fisher College to score 1,000 points on Tuesday, as the Cardinals picked up an 82-55 win over host Alfred University.

With the win, Fisher improves to 18-5 overall and 11-3 in the Empire 8 Conference.

Ten different players scored for Fisher in the win, with every player seeing at least eight minutes of action.

Cusack, who entered the game needing just six points to reach the historic milestone, scored her 1,000^th point on a layup with 14:05 left in the first half, giving her team an 18-4 lead, and the Cardinals never looked back.  The junior guard also moved into second place at Fisher in career 3-pointers with 173 in the win and finished the game with 17 points.
 
Senior Portia Velasco led the way for Fisher with 20 points.  She became just the sixth player in Fisher history to over the 1,400-point mark for her career.

Fellow senior Sydney Bloomstein tallied 15 points and a career-high 12 rebounds, marking the first double-double in her 100-game career.

Emily Piacentini tallied eight points and six steals in the win, while Nicole Robinson totaled eight points and seven rebounds.

Fisher returns to action at 6 p.m. on Friday at Hartwick College.   The Cardinals will then close out the regular season at 3 p.m. on Saturday at Stevens Institute of Technology.  Fisher has already earned one of four spots in the following weekend's Empire 8 Conference Championship.