MILLERSVILLE, Pa. — Makiah Shaw had 16 points on just seven shots and canned career point number 1,000 but the excellent outside shooting of the East Stroudsburg Warriors led them over the Millersville Marauders by a score of 69-62 Wednesday evening.  
 
As a team, East Stroudsburg shot 42.9% from beyond the arc, making nine threes on 21 attempts. Much of the defensive attention was paid to the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference's leading scorer, the physically imposing Emily Chmiel; the six-foot-two Chmiel entered the game averaging 23.9 points per game on more than 50% from the field. The senior's scoring strengths reside in the paint, where she uses her body and length to establish good position and convert the attempt. After the game, Marauders head coach Kira Mowen gave a look into the gameplan they employed to stop the Warriors' prolific scorer.
 
"We used our post on the underside and then had someone on the upper side as well," Mowen explained.  "And we did it–we played the scout. We were allowing everybody else to beat us, and unfortunately, they stepped up and made shots."
 
A good amount of those jump shots were open because of the doubling that Mowen's team used. The strategy to send two defenders at Chmiel had its positives and negatives; despite the open attempts that Millersville allowed, they also induced 10 second-half Warrior turnovers that often led to scores on the other end.<>
"I don't think it was the double that hurt us," Mowen said. "I think it was the scramble and the fly around after the double that hurt us. I don't think we scrambled quick enough. We didn't have a sense of urgency to get to everybody else."
 
As Mowen alluded to earlier, the defense did an excellent job stopping East Stroudsburg's leading scorer. She was held to just 10 points, her second-lowest scoring output of the season. Much of that was due to the efforts of Bryn Zentner, Brenna Ortwein and Rhyan Mitchell. Zentner, a freshman forward, was the Marauders' best physical matchup for Chmiel at a solid six-foot. She played the game's final 18 minutes without a break and finished with nine points, six rebounds and three steals.

 
"She's coming along nicely as a freshman," Mowen said of the rookie.  "She's going to be somebody in this conference that puts a lot of damage on people. Tonight, she put a lot of damage, body on body, on number 33 (Chmiel). So, we gave her kudos–but I'm not into moral victories. We did a great job, but we didn't do what we needed to do to get the win, and that's what matters right now."
 
Despite the loss, Shaw was effective in the mid-range and the post all night, finishing with a team-high 17 points on five-of-seven from the field. She became the 22^nd player to reach 1,000 career points in a Marauder uniform late in the second quarter by knocking down her second of two free throws. It was a fitting way for Shaw to do so, as she set the all-time Marauder mark for free throw percentage by a junior last season.
 
"In these last two years I've had Makiah, I've learned that she is a worker," Mowen said of her star forward. "She gives me what she can every day, and she goes about it in the right way. She's a great kid to coach. To continue to buy into me and what we're doing here with this change of culture and accomplish the goals that she aims for in terms of scoring the ball, it's a great feat. I'm also happy she did it at home and that she got to have her people here to see it."
 
She joins Kali March as the team's 1,000 career point scorers. March accomplished it during the road trip, and the pair will be honored for their achievement prior to the Marauders' next home game. That's on Jan. 29 against West Chester.
 
Millersville's next game is on the road at Lock Haven, and is scheduled to begin on Jan. 25 at 1 p.m.