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Mosley Dominant Again As Marauders Outlast Kutztown

Box Score Kutztown, Pa. – Aurielle Mosley's teammates may want to avoid contact with her for fear of burning up. The redshirt senior forward remained red hot, turning in another monster performance with 24 points, 18 rebounds and two blocks in leading the Marauders to a 63-58 victory over Kutztown Saturday afternoon at Keystone Arena.
 
Mosley scored the team's first seven points of the game and helped the team increase its lead to as many as 12 on three different occasions in the opening stanza and as much as 14 in the second half before the Golden Bears staged a furious rally late. The win keeps Millersville in sole possession of first place in the PSAC East at 17-6 with a 14-5 record in PSAC contests and gives the Marauders a five-game win streak, their second of the year after starting the season at 5-0.
 
All the way up until the first media break at 4:02 into the game, Mosley was outscoring the Golden Bears by herself, 7-3. Celeste Robinson gave the Marauders their first 12-point lead of the first half on a free throw with 10:42 remaining before halftime. Two possessions later, Carly Gallagher kept the lead at 12 with a jumper, making the score 23-11. The last time before the break that Millersville grabbed a 12-point advantage was on a Robinson layup with just 1:29 left on the clock, making the score 39-27, and the road team headed to the locker rooms with a 41-31 lead.
 
Out of the halftime break, the Marauder lead grew to 14 with 16:41 left to play on a layup by Mosley. Kutztown finally cut the lead to single digits with 11:28 remaining on a layup by Alyssa Bonenberger. From there, the Golden Bear rally was on. Over the next 5:13 of game play, Millersville got just two points and watched its lead melt away into a deadlock at 53 on a fast break layup by Advia Campbell.
 
The Marauders reclaimed the lead 17 seconds later on a layup by Mashira Newman, who posted a double-double of her own at 13 points and 11 rebounds. Newman rounded out her performance with five assists, two steals and two blocks while committing just one turnover. After taking back the lead on Newman's layup, Kutztown failed to tie Millersville again the rest of the way, and the Marauders went on to win by five.
 
The only player other than Mosley and Newman to score in double figures for the Marauders was Gallagher, who pitched in 10 points to go along with three rebounds, two assists and two steals. Celeste Robinson turned in a workmanlike performance, with eight points, nine rebounds, three steals and two assists.
 
But the story of this game was again Mosley, who posted her fourth consecutive double-double by the time the game had reached intermission. It is the sixth time in the past seven games that she has reached double digits in points and rebounds, and with her 9-of-16 shooting performance, it marks the ninth time in her past 10 outings that she has hit at least 50 percent of her field goal attempts.
 
The 5-0 start to the month of February is the best start to any month by a Millersville team since the 2009-10 edition of the Marauders went undefeated with an 8-0 record in February of 2010. To get to 6-0 in the second month of 2013, Millersville will need to be an East Stroudsburg team that it conquered earlier this season on the road, 69-55. Tip time from Pucillo Gymnasium Wednesday night is scheduled for 6 p.m.
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