The Shippensburg University women’s basketball team traveled to Bloomsburg University for an Eastern Division match-up game against the Huskies on Wednesday, Jan. 27.
The SU Raiders ended their 10-game winning streak with a loss of 88-62. SU experienced a slow start to the game, falling behind the Huskies by 15 points at halftime.
SU made a worthy attempt to rally back in the third quarter and trailed Bloomsburg by only eight points.
Bloomsburg ended SU’s resiliency with an 8-0 run and led to the finish with double digits.
Junior Morgan Griffith had an impressive game with a total of 18 points, 12 rebounds, two assists and two blocks. Junior Colleen Young was also a scoreboard leader with 15 points, six rebounds and two assists.
Juniors Logan Snyder and Lauren Gold contributed as well, with 12 points and three assists and five points, three assists and two steals, respectively.
SU went on to face West Chester University on Saturday, Jan. 30. Both teams sit at the top of the Eastern Division, but WCU was able to pull out the win 71-57.
The Rams were up by only six points at the end of the first half, but the Raiders were unable to catch up as WCU got an even bigger lead to close out the game in the second half.
Griffith led the scoreboard once again with a total of 19 points and 13 rebounds. Gold ended the day with 15 points, while sophomore Vicky Tumasz contributed eight points, with six of those points coming from a pair of three-pointers.
Both Young and Snyder totaled four points and four assists each. The Raiders are currently 15-4 and 11-4 in the PSAC.
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