Box Score Millersville, Pa. – Needing 18 points in Saturday's season opener with Wilmington (Del.) to eclipse the 1,000-point mark for her career, Preseason All-PSAC pick Aurielle Mosley scored a team-high 20, added 10 rebounds and seven blocks, and Millersville dispatched the Wildcats on its home floor by a 38-point margin, 94-56, to start the year 1-0.
 
Mosley scored her 1,000^th point on a one-and-one layup with 8:48 to go with the game already in hand. By that point, the Marauders had built up a 39-point lead. The home team led wire-to-wire, sprinting out of the gates to a 20-1 lead before the visitors could get their feet under them. The win marks the seventh-straight year that Millersville has won its home- and season-opening games.
 
After getting out to the 19- point lead, the Marauders saw the lead swell to 31 by the end of the first half, as the team shot a sizzling 6-of-12 from beyond the three-point arc in the opening stanza of the game. Defensively, Millersville clamped down as well, blocking 14 shots as a team for the game (10 in the first half) and allowing Wilmington to shoot just 17.1 percent in the first half and 22.5 percent for the game. In the second half, the Marauder lead grew to as big as 45 points.
 
Mashira Newman, Millersville's other Preseason All-PSAC selection, did nearly as much damage as Mosley, shooting 7-for-9 from the floor, including hitting her only triple, for 18 points and added seven rebounds, six steals and four assists. With the bench points locked at 27 for the game, Newman was part of a starting cast that outscored Wilmington's first five players by a 67-29 edge.
 
Another starter that stepped up for Millersville was Senada Mehmedovic, who had a career-high 15 points, nearly doubling her previous career mark. She had reached her career-high in points with 16 minutes to go in the first half, as the Marauder offense clicked on all cylinders. All but two Millersville players that saw action tallied points on the score sheet. The 94 points are the most the Marauders have scored in a game since the season-opener of the 2008-09 season, when Millersville had 101 in a win over Columbia Union.
 
Two big reasons for the wide margin of victory came from the way the Marauders crashed the offensive boards and turnovers the Wildcats committed (31). Millersville had 29 offensive rebounds in the game, leading to 29 second-chance points. The home team also was able to capitalize on the Wildcats' mistakes to the tune of 25 points off of turnovers, sending Wilmington to 0-3 on the young season.
 
After the convincing win in the season-opener, the Marauders get a nine-day break before traveling to Philadelphia University to take on the Rams on Nov. 26. That game is slated to start at 6 p.m. You can listen live to that game on MSBN.