MILLERSVILLE, Pa. — Kali March led Millersville with a season-high 21 points as the Marauders snapped a three-game losing streak with a 69–61 win over the visiting West Chester Golden Rams. Marauder head coach Kira Mowen was looking for renewed effort after a tough road loss to Lock Haven, and she was pleased with what she got.
 
"Obviously, I love the win," Mowen said postgame. "But I really wanted to see a difference in our girls in terms of their pride and their effort, and I felt that we had that. We withstood the run that West Chester made, and we held together as a team and as a unit."
 
Mowen gave that credit to her captains, Brenna Ortwein, Makiah Shaw, and Sophia Elstone, who brought the team together after coming up short in the game prior.
 
"I attribute that to our captains," Mowen said. "They did a great job of rallying our team and getting them together as we came back from that Lock Haven game on Monday. I don't want to take any credit away from them; They've pushed and laid the groundwork for what they want with this program and how they want to finish this season."
 
The Marauders entered the half up 36–21 through a combination of tenacious defense and effective halfcourt offense. Millersville's post players, especially Morgan Mahoney and Makiah Shaw, excelled when sealing or rolling en route to easy baskets.
 
Down 15, the Golden Rams began to press in the backcourt. This produced mixed results, but the visitors began to creep back into the game, eventually entering the fourth down just nine. That deficit was cut to five at 66-61 with 1:09 left in the game through a series of press-related miscues, but West Chester would get no closer.
 
"We dealt with it (the press) terribly," Mowen said postgame. "I don't think that we expected it, and we coughed the ball up way too many times. I've got timeouts to burn, and I try to tell my post players that instead of throwing it away for a 50-50 ball, just use a timeout and we'll deal with it. It's definitely something that we can learn to work through–how to get open, how to use our bodies and how to make the correct decisions and reads. It stalled us a little bit, but not for the full game."
 
The aforementioned Ortwein embodied the difference in tenacity that the Marauders brought into this contest; the senior nearly had a four-by-five, finishing with five points, 10 rebounds, seven assists and four steals while committing just one turnover. Shaw contributed 14 points on six-of-seven shooting from the field to supplement March's 21.  
The Marauders have a week off before returning to action at Shippensburg on Feb. 5 at 5:30 p.m.