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J.D. Ricapito

Men's Basketball

Millersvile Can't Keep Pace With Warriors

Box Score East Stroudsburg, Pa. - Third-ranked East Stroudsburg lost for the first time this season on Thursday night, and Millersville just happened to be in the way of a Warrior squad bent on rebounding. The Warriors blew open the game with a 31-13 run to close the first half and coasted to a 93-64 win Saturday. 

Millersville (9-11, 5-6 PSAC East) has surrendered more than 90 points just twice this season, and both of those times came against East Stroudsburg (21-1, 11-1 PSAC East). Kelvin Parker scored 17 points and Tyree Smith added 15, but the Marauders shot just 35 percent from the the field and 30 percent from three, while the East Stroudsburg offense hit better than 52 percent of its shots and 12-of-25 from three. Whis Grant led the Warriors with 22 points. 

J.D. Ricapito's dunk and three-point play conversion with 11:38 remaining in the first half knotted the score at 18-18. The Warriors, however, scored the game's next 11 points in a little more than two minutes to open an advantage. Millersville never recovered and scored just 13 points on 3-of-12 shooting for the remainder of the half. In the same stretch, East Stroudsburg dropped in 31 points on 10-of-16 shooting. 

The Warriors continued to extend the lead. Back-to-back threes from Grant and Will Brown near the three minute mark gave the Warriors a 89-59 lead--its largest of the game. 

Millersville, now 1-10 on the road this season, have not won in Kohler Fieldhouse since 2009 and the last four losses have all come by double figures. 

For Millersville, Smith has scored in double figures in five consecutive games, and Parker has scored in double figures in seven of his eight games as a Marauder. 

Millersville is 9-1 at home, however, and hosts Mansfield on Wednesday at 8 p.m.


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