Box Score Cheyney, Pa. - The odd and unexpected tend to happen when Millersville and Cheyney meet. Millersville held a seven point lead with fewer than four minutes to play in Wednesday's game, but Cheyney ripped off a 15-5 run in that span to hand the visiting Marauders a 68-65 loss.

Millersville (15-9, 11-7 PSAC), already slowed by injuries, had its bench get even shorter Wednesday as starter Brandon Brown sat with a knee injury. With only eight players dressed, the Marauders seeminly ran out of gas in the final minutes, missing  two shots, three free throws and totaling three turnovers in the final three minutes. Instead, Cheyney (10-12, 8-10) used four players in double figures including Brandon Norfleet's 15 second half points to hand the Marauders their third consecutive loss. Six of the last eight games between the teams played in Cope Hall have now been decided by fewer than seven points.

Larry Grant led Millersville with 24 points, and 20 of those points came in the second half. He also matched a career-high with five steals for the second game in a row. Anthony Coleman added 17.

The Marauders saw their late lead slip away, but they needed a comeback just to be in contention. They trailed 36-28 with 16:30 left in the game, but Coleman scored eight consecutive points for the Marauders, and Grant scored at the 12:05 mark to tie the game at 38. Grant six more and Coleman added a free throw before Cheyney's Rashaad Slappy halted Millersville's 17-2 run.

Millersville remained in control, and its lead was 60-53 with 3:43 on the clock after a pair of free throws from Nate Bollinger. But then everything unraveled for the Marauders. Calvin Brown scored and started Cheyney's run. Millersville had four different chances in the final minute to tie the game or take the lead back but came up empty each time.

Trailing by three with 15 seconds left after two Norfleet free throws, the best the Marauders could do on its game-tying attempt was a contested Bollinger three.

Millersville was out-rebounded 37-31 despite 11 rebounds from Elijah Obade, the Division II leader. Obade, however, finished with only two points. He blocked two shots, giving him 62 for the season and leaving him one shy of Antwine Moore's single-season school record.

The Marauders will try to put an end to their season-long skid Saturday at Kutztown. Game time is 3 p.m.