Box Score Millersville, Pa. – After letting an 11-point first half lead disintegrate and finding themselves down two at halftime, the Marauder women found their groove in the second half, outscoring Kutztown 46-22 after intermission to come away with a 78-56 rout in a crucial battle between teams jockeying for playoff positioning in the PSAC East.
 
With the win and a loss by Bloomsburg at the hands of West Chester, the Marauders forge a tie for first place in the division with the Huskies. The victory pushes Millersville to 12-5 overall and 9-4 in the PSAC. Aurielle Mosley led the team with a double-double, posting her second consecutive 20 point output to go along with 13 rebounds and three blocks. Fourteen of the redshirt senior's 20 points came after half, and she was one of four Marauder players in double figures.
 
Mashira Newman filled the stat sheet, scoring 18 points as well as chipping in eight rebounds, six assists and five steals. Celeste Robinson scored a career-high 16 points to go along with four assists, two steals and two rebounds, and Miesha Cousins scored 12 points with six rebounds.
 
Mosley recovered from a first half in which she shot 3-of-11 from the field to shoot 6-for-11 in the second half of play. Millersville jumped on the visiting Golden Bears, getting out to a 10-2 lead in the first 3:57 of the game, capped by a Mosley jumper. But a Marauder lead that swelled to 11 points as many as two times and having a nine point lead four times, Millersville found itself trailing by a bucket heading into the locker rooms courtesy of a 19-8 Golden Bear sprint to close the first half.
 
As has been the case in a few other games so far for Millersville this season, whatever head coach Mary Fleig said at the break worked. The Marauders came out firing, hanging a 24-6 run on the Golden Bears in the first 9:55 of the second half.
 
If Kutztown was hoping the Marauders would let up after that impressive stretch, the Golden Bears were dead wrong. Millersville kept pouring it on, with the largest lead getting to 28 points with two minutes to play.
 
Millersville won this game on the strength of its defense, allowing just 56 points while forcing 25 Golden Bear turnovers, which led to 28 Marauder points. The home team also held Kutztown to 35.1 percent shooting for the game. The Millersville defense notched 11 steals and six blocks as a team.
 
The Marauders also posted 17 second chance points on 15 offensive rebounds. More surprisingly than the offensive rebounding for Millersville was the team's free throw shooting, which was the worst in the conference entering the game at a 60.1 percent rate. Against the Golden Bears, the Marauders made the most of their 20 trips to the line, converting on 16 of them for an 80 percent success rate.
 
Next up for Millersville is a Shippensburg team that boasts a 12-6 record and is 8-5 in PSAC play, just a game behind the Marauders and Huskies. Millersville will carry a 42-42 all-time record against the Raiders on the road to Heige's Fieldhouse Wednesday night. Tip time is 6 p.m.