East Stroudsburg, Pa. - A 17-0 run mid-way through the first period gave homestanding East Stroudsburg the lead it needed to advance to the PSAC Tournament semifinals and eliminate Millersville, 72-69. The Marauders exited in the PSAC Quarterfinals for the third consecutive season.

Kohler Fieldhouse has become a near impossible place to win for Millersville (16-14) in recent years. East Stroudsburg (19-9) ended Millersville's season for the second season in a row on the floor, and Millersville has now lost its last eight games in the building dating back to 2009. The two teams split in the regular season, but home court advantage was significant for the Warriors on Wednesday.

Millersville trailed 15-11 after a Demerik Weglinski bucket with 12:26 remaining. But ESU senior Lamont Tillery started a 17-0 run with a 3-pointer and just over six minutes later, ESU led 32-11. Millersville missed all seven of its shots and turned the ball over four times in the stretch while ESU knocked down three 3-pointers and made all four of its foul shots. Tillery hit two of the threes, and immediately after Jalen Lester broke Millersville's scoreless streak, Tillery hit his third triple of the half to push the advantage to 21.

Millersville trailed by 15 at the break, and Eddie Callender scored on the first possession of the second half to cut ESU's lead to 13, but that was as close as Millersville could get. The Marauders held ESU to just 58 points and 35 percent shooting in the win at Pucillo Gymnasium on Jan. 31. This time, ESU shot 50 percent from the field, made 12 threes at 44 percent, and Tillery's 16 led four players in double figures. Anthony Moe totaled 22 points in that Millersville win, but he managed just two points on three shots Wednesday.

Senior Jalen Lester went out in style, scoring 18 points on 4-of-5 shooting from three. Lester was the only Marauder to make a 3-pointer. Tavon Parker scored 11 but was 0-of-5 from deep. Callender totaled 17 points.

Millersville finished the season with 16 games, giving Coach Fred Thompson 10 winning seasons in his 17-year tenure and nine seasons with 16-plus wins. The 2014-15 club broke a 20-year old single season school record for best team free throw percentage in a season with a mark of .745. Light's free throw shooting percentage of .866 broke Gary Cable's single season record that had stood since 1959-60.

Lester was the team's lone senior. He averaged 16 points per game over his last three games. Of Millersville's starting five over the final 10 games of the season, four--Callender, Parker, Moe and Shawn Williams--are expected to return in 2015-16. Light, the team's sixth man averaged 11.3 points per game and scored the most points (327) by a Marauder freshman since Charlie Parker in 2004-05.