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SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. - The Shippensburg men's basketball team held a five-point lead with four minutes to play in Saturday afternoon's PSAC Eastern Division contest with Mansfield, but the pesky Mountaineer squad closed the game on a 9-2 run to edge the Raiders, 64-62 from Heiges Field House.

Shippensburg (10-11, 2-5 PSAC East) trailed by 11 points with seven minutes remaining in the first half but cut its deficit to three points at intermission. The Raiders tied the score three minutes into the second half and the lead would exchange hands five times until the score was deadlocked at 60-60 with 3:08 to play.

Ironically, neither team would score another bucket until a lay-up from junior forward Daziah Miller dropped with three-tenths of a second remaining. Shippensburg missed seven shots from the field despite drawing contact in the final three minutes, while the Mountaineers were sent to the free-throw line six times over the same span and converted four attempts.

Graduate forward Ryan Kraft delivered a season-high 19 points, shooting 5-of-7 from three-point range, while grabbing six rebounds and recording two assists. Kraft is now 69 points short of 1,000 for his Shippensburg career.

In his second start of the season, Miller recorded his first double-double of the season, scoring 18 points to go along with 14 rebounds. Red-shirt freshman guard Lamar Drayton had nine second-half points and had four steals, three rebounds and two assists.

Mansfield (13-7, 6-2 PSAC East) had its physical post player, sophomore Yuseff Carr, sent to the free-throw line 12 times in the contest and he converted 10 of those attempts. Carr finished with 18 points and 13 rebounds.

The Mountaineers were 22-of-29 from the free-throw line in the game on Saturday and finished 23-of-29 from the charity stripe in the 76-63 victory over Shippensburg on January 14.

The Raiders have now had 10 games this season decided by six points or less. Shippensburg has a 6-4 mark in those contests, but has lost three of the last four. With the exception of Wednesday's loss to West Chester, the last four home games for the Raiders have been decided by a total of eight points.

Shippensburg will conclude its three-game homestand from Heiges Field House at 8 p.m. on Wednesday when the Raiders host Millersville. Both teams have two divisional victories this season, yet Shippensburg won the previous meeting between the two teams on January 21 by an 80-67 margin.