Complete Game Notes

GAME QUICK FACTS
Millersville (2-0) at Goldey Beacom (1-0)
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008 - 6 p.m.
Joseph West Jones Center, Wilmington, DE.
Audio: None

ABOUT THE GAME
• Millersville made it three straight seasons that the team has posted a 2-0 record at the MU Tipoff Classic with wins over Columbia Union and Lock Haven on Saturday and Sunday. Millersville broke several school records in the season-opening 101-30 victory over CUC and cruised to an 84-65 win over Lock Haven the following day.
• The Marauders have defeated Goldey Beacom in each of the two school's meetings in 2006 and 2007. The Marauders won nine games in 11 chances on the road last season while the Lightning posted a 7-4 record at Joseph West Jones Center a year ago.
• Coach Mary Fleig is entering her 19th season at Millersville and is looking to take her team to an eighth-straight appearance in the PSAC semifinals. Fleig has enjoyed a winning season at Millersville in 17 of her 18 seasons and will be looking to post back-to-back undefeated Eastern Division titles after running the table last season . Fleig is currently the tenth-most winningest coach in NCAA Division II history with 445 career victories.

ABOUT THE OPPONENT
• Goldey Beacom competes in the Central Collegiate Athletic Conference (CACC) and is coached by second-year head coach Jennifer Carleton. Carleton led the Lighting to an 11-16 overall record in her first season as a head coach last year and an 8-10 record in the conference placing them fifth in the CACC Southern Division.
• GB began its season this past Sunday claiming an 88-54 win over Concordia College. The Lighting were led by forward Kellyn Nolan who dropped in 27 points on 10-of-15 shooting from the field. Nolan also hit on 7-of-11 free throw attempts in 37 minutes of action. Guard Jane Weldon dropped in 19 points for the Lightning but connected on just 1-of-7 attempts from 3-point range. GB's only double-double came from Arielle Alford who scored 11 points and pulled down 12 rebounds.
• As a team, the Lightning picked up 24 assists on 32 field goals, but turned the ball over 19 times. Defensively, the Lightning scrambled for 17 steals and forced visiting Concord into 28 turnovers. GB outrebounded the visitors 53-32, including 20-10 on the offensive boards.
• Goldey Beacom loses three key players from last year's team including leading scorer All-CCAC First Team selection, Jacinda Jones. Jones averaged 21.5 points per game for a team that averaged 64.6 points per game. Jones also led the team averaging 8.3 rebounds per game and in steals with a season total of 55. The Lighting also lose starters Natasha Scott (5.9 ppg) and Nicole Turoni (5.6 ppg) who combined to start 44 games a year ago.
• Kellyn Nolan (5.7 ppg, 4.0 rpg) and Jacinda Jones (12.9 ppg, 6.3 rpg) are the only returning starters from last year's 11-16 team. Jones was the only other Lightning player to average double figures in points and was second on the team in steals with 45. She also finished third on the team in rebounding. Other returning letter-winners for the Lightning include Arielle Alford (3.5 ppg, 7.2 rpg), Janae Weldon (8.7 ppg, 81 assists) and Amber Gullickson (1.5 ppg, 1.4 rpg).
• Five new faces join the 2008-09 team including two tranfers and three freshman. The Lightning's biggest addition will come at the center position where 6'-5” sophomore Megan Knowles, a transfer from Del Tech Community College, will give the team a needed boost in the post. GB's other transfer, from Del Tech Community College, is Ashley Steele who will provide the team with a consistent outside shot.


THE LAST MEETING
• Millersville defeated Goldey Beacom 67-57 in the second game of the 2007 MU Tipoff Classic. The win was the second for Millersville in only two meetings between the two schools, with both games coming in the past two seasons. Millersville defeated GB in the two school's first meeting in 2006 by a final of 80-70.
• Millersville forced 28 turnovers in the contest and had four players score in double figures. Forward Gladine St. Julien paced Millersville with a double-double, 16 points and 10 rebounds, while Ashley Romanoski added 13 points. Jenna Philo chipped in with 10 points and racked up a team-high five assists in the game.
• Millersville used a 14-0 run midway through the first half to grab a lead they would never relinquish. The Marauders led by 18 at halftime but watched as GB chipped away in the second half. The lead shrank to nine with under two minutes to play but a Kari Cover three-point play with 1:22 remaining put the game away for Millersville.

THE LAST TIME OUT
• Forward Gladine St. Julien showed why she was selected to the Preseason All-PSAC East First Team as she scored a game-high 21 points and pulled down eight rebounds to lead the Millersville to an 84-65 victory over visiting Lock Haven in the final game of the MU Tipoff Classic.
• St. Julien shot 8-of-12 from the field and also connected on 5-of-6 free throw attempts to lead four players in double figures for Millersville. Forward Jenna Craig picked up her first double-double of the season as she connected on 7-of-9 shots from the field and 3-of-4 from the charity stripe for 17 points to go along with a team-high 12 rebounds. Guard Ashley Moyer, who dropped in a career-high 18 points in the Marauders' season-opening victory over Columbia Union, chipped in with 16 points against Lock Haven. Forward Emily Balogh came off the bench and was the final player to reach double figures as she scored a career-high 10 points on 3-of-4 shooting from the field.
• Millersville shot 48% from the field for the game as the team connected on 29-of-61 shots. Millersville finished with 13 steals and six blocks and forced the visitors into 21 turnovers resulting in 28 points for the 2-0 Marauders. Millersville dominated the paint as they outscored LHU 40-28 down low and held a 45-34 advantage in rebounds.

MARAUDER MILESTONES
• Millersville's women's basketball program began in 1918 and since then, it has compiled 683 wins, leaving it just seventeen victories shy of 700 all-time wins. Under Fleig, the Marauders have compiled almost half of those victories with 323.
• The women's team will look to extend its 14-game PSAC Eastern Division winning streak when it travels to West Chester on January 14 for the East opener.
• Last season, coach Fleig won her 300th game at Millersville in the season opener, an 81-38 thrashing of Alderson-Broaddus in the MU Tipoff Classic.

EARLY EXPECTATIONS
• After posting a 24-6 overall record and a perfect 12-0 mark in the PSAC East a year ago, the Marauders were pegged to finish second by the coaches in the PSAC Preseason Poll.
• Picked to finish first in the Eastern Division in 2008 is the division's newest member, Shippensburg. Shippensburg made the switch to the East after the realignment of the PSAC to accomodate the additions of Gannon and Mercyhurst to the Western Division. Shippensburg qualified for the PSAC playoffs last season as the fourth seed out of the very competitive Western Division. All-American and Western Division Athlete of the Year Lauren Beckley heads a Lady Raider team that has reached the playoffs in 13 of the past 14 seasons.
• West Chester, who qualified for the PSAC playoffs last season as the second seed, finished the season at 9-3 in the division and is picked to finish one spot behind Millersville in third. Kutztown, who won just four games in the division last year, is picked fourth while East Stroudsburg is fifth.
• Forward Gladine St. Julien, an All-PSAC Eastern Divsion First Team selection last season, was named to the 2008 Preseason All-PSAC East Team.

POWER FORWARD
• Forward Gladine St. Julien stepped up in a huge way last season after the loss of PreseasonAll-PSAC selection Ashley Romanoski due to injury. St. Julien led the Marauders in scoring average (12.5) and was second on the team in rebounding, averaging 6.7 rebounds per game.
• St. Julien was honored as the PSAC Eastern Division Athlete of the Week three times last season.
• St. Julien poured in a career-high 22 points on December 18, in the first of three losses on the season to California (Pa.). She matcher her career high on February 23 in a four-point victory over East Stroudsburg.
• The 6-0 forward scored in double figures in 21 of the team's 30 games last season and managed four double-doubles. St. Julien led the Marauders in scoring 13 times and rebounding 11 times.

ADVANTAGE PUCILLO
• Since Millersville began playing its home games in Pucillo Gymnasium in 1982, the Lady Marauders are an impressive 249-76 at home in 26 seasons. The team has never won less than seven games at Pucillo in a single season and has never had a losing record. Millersville has recorded three or less losses at home in 18 of 26 seasons at Pucillo including a stretch of seven straight seasons from 1996 to 2002.
• Since the 2000-01 season, Millersville holds a .795 winning percentage at Pucillo.


NEW FACES
• Despite returning three full-time starters from last year's team and two more players with five or more starts, the Marauders welcome eight new faces to this year's squad.
• Fleig has recruited seven freshman and a tranfer to fill out the 2008 roster that also includes nine returning players. Chelsea Barsky, a transfer from St. Francis (Pa.), is in her junior season and despite playing mostly at the guard position while at the Division I Institution, the 5-11 transfer will be called upon to do most of her work in the post.
• The incoming class is well balanced with four guards and five forwards. With the addition of 2007-08 red-shirt Emily Balogh, the Marauders will have a very deep bench to spell the starters.

MARCH MADNESS
• Extending the season into March is becoming commonplace at Millersville, and in 2007-08, the Marauders earned their 12th straight appearance in the PSAC Tournament and seventh consecutive appearance in the conference semifinals.
• Despite falling in the PSAC Tournament semifinals to California (Pa.), the Marauders entered the NCAA Division II Tournament as the No. 7 seed in the East Region. Despite leading with under eight minutes to play in the opening-round contest, the Marauders eventually fell for the third time on the season to California (Pa.) to end their season.
• The Marauders have appeared in the NCAA Tournament five times under the direction of Fleig and have posted a 2-5 record in those appearances. Millersville defeated Pitt-Johnstown, 75-71 to advance to the regional semifinal in 1999 and the 2002 team knocked off Belmont Abbey, 84-60 to advance for the only two victories.

BREAKING RECORDS
• In the season-opening 101-30 victory over Columbia Union, the Marauders eclipsed the 100-point mark for the first time since the 1999-2000 season. In that season the Marauders ironically knocked off the same team (Columbia Union) by a score of 102-52.
• The 101-point effort was helped in large part to the 60 first-half points scored by the Marauders which broke the school record of 54 set by the 1992-93 team in a lopsided win over Holy Family.
• The 71-point margin of victory also broke the school record set by the 1992-93 team that defeated Cheyney by a final score of 94-28.

HOT STARTS
• The Marauders have started the season 2-0, marking the third straight season the team has started with two straight wins and the ninth time under Fleig the team has started with at least a 2-0 record.
• In each of the eight previous seasons under Fleig the Marauders have started 2-0 or better, the team has never won less than 15 games and has finished at least six games over .500.