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Complete Game Notes

GAME INFORMATION
Millersville (19-6, 16-5 PSAC) vs. Shippensburg (19-7, 15-6 PSAC)
Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 - 6 p.m.
Pucillo Gymnasium, Millersville, Pa.

MEDIA INFORMATION
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Audio Broadcast (MSBN)
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TICKET INFORMATION
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Reserved Seating: $8
General Admission (Doubleheader): $6
General Admission (Single game): $5
Senior Citizen: $3
Visiting Students with ID: $3
Children under 6: FREE
MU Students: FREE with valid ID
Faculty and Staff: FREE with one guest with valid ID

GAMEDAY PROMOTIONS

SERIES INFORMATION
Series vs. Ship: 42-43
Series Streak: Ship, 2
First Meeting:  1921-22 (Ship, 15-14)
Last Meeting: 2013 (Ship, 70-58)
Last 10: 6-4
Mary Fleig vs. Shippensburg: 15-14
Kristy Trn vs. Millersville: 6-12

GAME NOTES
· Millersville rolls into its regular season finale with a seven-game winning streak to its credit after dismantling Mansfield on Saturday, 88-61. The game against Shippensburg is one of epic proportions, as it completely decides the pecking order in the East side of the PSAC Tournament. The Marauders have the upper hand and the inside track at hosting the PSAC Tournament. With a win, regardless of any other action, Millersville gets a first round bye and then hosts the rest of the tournament. With a loss and a Bloomsburg win at East Stroudsburg, the Marauders would slip down to the third seed and be forced to play Saturday in a first round game at Pucillo Gymnasium, while the Huskies would grab the No. 1 seed and host the conference tourney.
· This is the final regular season home game and Senior Night for Millersville's three seniors: point guard Mashira Newman and forwards Aurielle Mosley and Miesha Cousins. The trio has been crucial to the team's contention for the PSAC East regular season crown so far in 2012-13. Mosley, Newman and Cousins have combined for 901 points this season, or 50.4 percent of the team's output. The seniors are the team's top three rebounders as well, pulling down a total of 544 boards, accounting for 48.6 percent of the team's production in that department. The threesome of players have been on teams with a combined record of 82-30, good for a .732 winning percentage. They have been even better in PSAC play over the years, posting a 53-18 record, which amounts to a win percentage of .746.
· While Cousins is the unheralded player of the three and does the dirty work down low, Mosley and Newman are in elite territory in terms of program history. Mosley, who ranks sixth all-time in scoring with 1,375 points, second in rebounding with 977 boards and first in blocks with 238, could become just the second player in school history to be ranked in the top five in all three categories (Shelly Bowie is currently the only player to do so) if she can pass current Millersville athletic director Peg Kauffman in points. Kauffman sits in fourth and scored 1,398 points in her career. But for as good as Mosley has been in her career, Newman is an even more rare player for head coach Mary Fleig to have found. She is in fifth place in all-time scoring, just 10 points behind Kauffman with 1,388 points, second in assists with 492 and third in steals with 386. She is only player in school history to be in the top five of each category, and if she can block five more shots over the rest of her year, she will become the only player ever to land in the top 10 in points, assists, steals and blocks. Mosley and Newman are also a great pairing to have at the same time because of their scoring, as the tandem has combined for 2,763 career points. That mark is just 46 points from making them the highest scoring pair of classmates in program history. Only the pairing of Sara Burcin and Safiyyah Bashir scored more combined points (2,809).
· Against Mansfield Saturday, Senada Mehmedovic had a nice bounceback game, leading the team with 23 points on 9-of-15 shooting, including 3-of-6 from beyond the arc. In the previous two games, Mehmedovic had scored just three points on a combined 1-for-13 shooting, which included 1-of-7 from 3-point range. The Carlisle native had also been shut out on Feb. 16 at Kutztown, snapping a 22-game scoring streak, but she has been a streaky scorer all season long. Mehmedovic has hit for 14 or more in seven games, but has been in single digits in 14 games. If she can hit her stride as the team enters the PSAC Tournament, it will be a bonus for the team going forward.
· A win Wednesday night would give the team 20 wins for the season. Fleig and her teams are no stranger to this benchmark. It would be the 11th time in Fleig's 23 year tenure that her teams have finished with at least 20 wins and would mark the fifth time in the last six years. Only one of those 11 years under Fleig did not result in a top-two finish in the division (2000-01, when the team finished 21-6 but was third).

ABOUT SHIPPENSBURG
· Shippensburg heads into Pucillo Gymnasium Wednesday night with a first round bye in the PSAC Tournament at stake. If the Raiders can beat Millersville on its home floor and sweep the season series between the teams, they will steal that first round pass from Millersville, which has the inside edge to host the entire conference tournament.
· The Raiders carry in a record of 19-7, 15-6 in PSAC and have defeated the Marauders at home earlier this season on Jan. 30 by a score of 70-58. In that game, Ship allowed Mosley to post 22 points, 13 rebounds and three blocks but made her, as well as two other Millersville players foul out by getting to the line. The Raiders made 32-of-43 free throws in the game. The made free throw total was double the amount of field goals Shippensburg made in the game (16) and the 43 free throw attempts were four more than the numer of field goal attempts the Raiders took. Those trips to the line were courtesy of 29 Marauder fouls, the most by a Fleig-coached team in more than a decade. It was the most free throws made by a PSAC team in roughly a year and the most attempts by a PSAC team since the 2009-10 season. Ship's leading scorer in that game was senior Dana Wert with 17 points, and only two Raider players reached double figures. The other player to do so was Wert's sister, Shawna Wert, who finished with 11 points. Dana did her damage on the line, as 14 of her 17 points came at the stripe on 14-of-18 foul shooting.
· The top scorer for Shippensburg this season, however, is neither of the Werts. It is Sarah Strybuc, who scores at a rate of 14.0 points per game. The Raiders do have scoring balance, landing four players in double figures in per-game scoring. After that, no other Shippensburg player scores more than 5.5 points per game. Second on the team in scoring is PSAC East Freshman of the Year candidate Stephanie Knauer. The rookie has landed seven PSAC East Freshman of the Week selections thanks in large part to averages of 12.9 points and 9.1 rebounds per game. Knauer shoots 58.1 percent from the field and 71.9 percent from the line to make her a threat anywhere on the court. The Werts are the only other two players to put up double digits in scoring, combining for 22.6 points per game. Dana commands the offense, posting 4.0 assists per game to lead the team, and can produce on the other end of the floor as well, notching 41 steals to tie for the team lead.
· Even with the firepower the Raiders have at the top of their roster in Strybuc, Knauer, Dana and Shawna Wert, the calling card of the team is getting to the stripe. Ship has attempted 818 free throws this season, a whopping 316 more than their opponents in total, and an average of 12.2 more free throws per game than the opposing team. And when the Raiders are getting to the line, they make teams pay, shooting .727 as a team.
· The key for the Marauders would be to take a lead into the half, as Ship outscores opponents in the first half by an average of 8.1 points, but is only marginally better after halftime, besting opponents by just 2.5 points out of the locker rooms.