SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — Graduate student Kali March scored her 1,000th point and drained the dagger three with 1:14 remaining to go up by eight and propel the Millersville Marauders (10–5, 5–3) to a 62–53 victory over the Shepherd Rams (4–12, 1–8) Saturday afternoon. The visitors led for the game's final 36 minutes, but a sloppy fourth quarter allowed the Rams to hang around and make things interesting down the stretch.
 
The Marauders had canned just two field goals over the game's previous 10 minutes prior to March's clutch make. Up 55–50, Bryn Zentner grabbed one of her team-high 12 rebounds after a crucial Shepherd miss and passed to Sophia Elstone, who saw March streaking upcourt and threw her the outlet. March didn't hesitate, rising up and drilling the wing three in transition. Millersville head coach Kira Mowen went through a swarm of emotions watching her veteran point guard in that moment. 
 
"As a coach, I was yelling 'pull it out'!" Mowen said of the moment postgame. "But as somebody who is super confident in her shooting ability, I trust her and she's going to take those. And you know what–to be honest, the reason that she's here with me is to be a gutsy playmaker, and that's a gutsy shot to take when we probably just need to run clock. So, my coach's mind is saying, 'I don't know'. But my confidence in her says that that the reason that she's here is to do that for me."
 
The day's history came on the very first play. Morgan Mahoney won the tip-off and everyone on the Marauder sidelines knew the ball was going to March, who entered the game with 998 career points.  She gave it back to Mahoney at the top of the key, and the pair executed the ensuing dribble hand-off so well that March's milestone basket was a wide-open right-handed layup.

"The very first play call was going to her," Mowen explained. "It was a hand-off play. The ball jostled around the rim a little bit, so I was slightly nervous. But the very first play call was hers. The second one was going to be hers as well because I wanted to get it out of the way so we could focus on getting the win and not when that was going to happen."
 
March spent her first four seasons at Division III Cornell College and totaled 810 points over 74 games played entering the 2024–25 campaign. She's been the Marauder's leading scorer since transferring to Millersville, averaging 13.2 PPG over the first 15 games and finishing this contest with 1,008 in her career. She's just the 21st player to reach the 1,000 point plateau while wearing a Marauder uniform.
 
"It's an honor for me to give that young lady the opportunity to get there," Mowen said of the milestone. "Being the one on the sideline with her as she did that, it means a lot to me. I know that hopefully it means a lot to her as well, and I'm very happy that she was able to do it."
 
In the 38:36 between those two moments, it was the Marauder frontcourt that paved the way. Zentner tallied the third double-double of her rookie season and was nearly perfect, recording her team-high 13 points on 3-for-3 from the field and 7-of-8 from the free throw line. Mahoney matched her with 13 points and carried her team's offense for much of the second quarter, making five straight jumpers for 11 of the Marauder's 17 points.  
 
Makiah Shaw was quiet in the first half but turned it on in the second, scoring nine of her 11 points over the game's final 20 minutes. She will look to join March in the 1,000-point club in the coming weeks, as she finished this game needing just 36 to get there. Shaw and teammate Brenna Ortwein both hit personal milestones themselves, tallying their 100^th start at Millersville. While the statistics may show Shaw as starting 29 of 30 games last season, that one non-start was a ceremonial gesture on Senior Day; injured teammate La'Shyra Williams took the tip-off and immediately exited in favor of Shaw.
 
The pair looks for start number 101 next Wednesday, as the Marauders head to Mansfield to take on the Mountaineers. The tip-off is scheduled for Jan. 15 at 5:30 p.m.