Box Score Millersville, Pa. – Getting a win and getting by East Stroudsburg for the right to travel to Shippensburg in the PSAC Tournament Quarterfinals was all that mattered Saturday evening for Millersville. Good thing too, as the Marauders gutted out a win, 42-31, propelled by a late 13-0 run at Pucillo Gymnasium to advance to the PSAC Tournament's second round.
 
The Warriors' 31 points were the fewest a Marauder team allowed since yielding just 26 in a 58-26 against Mansfield on Jan. 31, 2009 and the lowest the team has ever surrendered in a PSAC Tournament game. Millersville held East Stroudsburg to just 11-of-59 shooting, which resulted in an opponent's season-low shooting percentage of 18.6 percent. Only six Warrior players scored, and only three scored more than three points.
 
The Marauders were forced to be at their best defensively on a night where buckets were hard to come by. Millersville shot just 23.7 percent from the field. Senior point guard Mashira Newman was the only player to hit double digits, posting 15 points on 4-of-11 shooting to go with seven boards, six steals, three assists and three blocks.
 
Redshirt senior forward Aurielle Mosley's string of 11-straight games games in double figures was snapped, as she hit for just eight points but pulled down a game-high 15 rebounds. The York native also chipped in a pair each of assists, steals and blocks while shooting 3-for-8 from the field. It was the first time in the past 10 games that she failed to shoot 50 percent from the floor.
 
With the game deadlocked at six and 15:07 to go in the first half, the Marauders went on a 10-0 run over the next 6:11 of action to take a 16-6 lead. Just as it looked like Millersville was going to run away from the Warriors, a proverbial lid cast a shadow over the basket, and the home team managed just two points over the next 10:25, running all the way into the second half. In that span of time, East Stroudsburg went on a 13-2 sprint of its own to grab a 19-18 lead before Carly Gallagher's jumper reclaimed the Millersville lead at 20-19.
 
Over the next 9:50, both teams wrestled for the lead but managed just a combined 15 points to again lock the score at 27 on the fourth tie of the ballgame. From that point, the Marauders took over, holding the Warriors scoreless over a span of 6:51 while going on a 13-0 to open up a 40-27 edge with just 1:50 to play. In the run, Newman hit for eight of her 15 points and capped the sprint with a triple from the right corner.
 
The game had the indications of a slugfest after a first-half score of 18-16. It was the fewest points Millersville had scored in a half since putting just 17 on the board in the second half against then-No. 9 ranked Edinboro in a 71-43 loss on Dec. 10, 2011. It was the lowest point total for a first half since the Marauders posted just 16 in the opening stanza of a 54-35 defeat at Holy Family back on Dec. 21, 2009.
 
Millersville persevered and, with the win, set up another meeting with Ship Tuesday night. The Marauders were 0-2 against the second-seeded Raiders this season, including a 72-62 loss Wednesday on Senior Night. The win did give Millersville its 20^th of the season, upping its record to 20-7, 17-6 in PSAC action. It is the 11^th time in head coach Mary Fleig's tenure that the team has reached the 20-win mark and the fifth time in the past six seasons. The game time for Tuesday's showdown from Heiges Fieldhouse is TBD.