PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Trailing by one point at the end of the first quarter, the Millersville women's basketball team pulled out a 22-point scoring effort in the second to pull ahead for the remainder of the game. The Marauders defeated Chestnut Hill, 71-54.
 
The win marks Millersville's first of the season. The Marauders now hold a 1-2 record. The loss put the Griffins at a 1-2 record overall.
 
Lauren Lister struggled to score in the first quarter but led the team through the rest of the game shooting 9-of-15 from the field to total 26 points.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
• The Griffins went on a 5-0 run to start the game, but a 3-pointer and layup combination from Chandera Jones-Aryeh and jumper from Olivia Mottern quickly tied the game at 7-7. The teams went back and forth until the Marauders took a 12-11 lead. The Griffins' Leah Miller scored in the last 12 second to put Chestnut Hill in the lead at the end of the first.
• Courtney Dimoff started the 22-point effort in the second quarter with back-to-back 3-pointers and a layup to give Millersville eight points and the 20-14 lead. The Marauders went on a 14-5 run to end the half for a 12-point lead over Chestnut Hill.
• The combined scoring effort of Lister, Dimoff, Taylor, Olivia Richardson and Atiya McDonald gave the Marauders a 20-point lead in the third quarter--their largest of the game. Millersville went on an 11-4 run to create the gap, but two Chestnut Hill 3-pointers in the final minute brought them within 16-points of the Marauders at the end of the third.
• A fast-break bucket from Mottern in the final quarter put the Marauders back up by 20-points.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
• Dimoff tallied double-digits for the Marauders for the first time this season. Dimoff led the team in 3-pointers going 2-of-7 from beyond the arch.   
• Lister and Taylor led the team in rebounds with seven each while Dimoff and Mottern added six each. Jones-Aryeh recorded four steals.
• Millersville led in fast break points (6-0), second chance points (12-6), points in the paint (36-16), points off turnovers (17-14) and points from the bench (13-9).

HEAD COACH MARY FLEIG QUOTES
• "We finally had a really good second quarter which really helped. We got opportunities to put our press in and score off opportunities defensively. I think our running game was really good tonight in open court."
• "A big thing was that Courtney Dimoff started knocking down threes and Catherine Copeland did a really great job defensively and offensively that helped to open things up for Courtney. She did a great job outside hitting some threes and so did Chandera Jones-Aryeh."
• "We learned last week on the road and from those games. We did a better job rebounding this time. We out-rebounded them and that was our goal going into it. We worked on things we needed to get better at. We just need to keep working on those things. Going on the road is sometimes hard, but I think we did a good job. We go out west next and that's going to be a long weekend. We just need to keep working on us."

NOTES
• This was the fourth meeting between the Marauders and the Griffins. Millersville now holds a 4-0 record in the series.
• This was the third double-digit scoring effort and 20-point game for Lister. Dimoff recorded her first double-digit scoring effort of the season.

UP NEXT
• Millersville continues its six-game campaign on the road facing their first PSAC East opponent, Mercyhurst on Saturday, Nov. 23 at 1 p.m.