SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – Seniors Jaren Gembe and Justin Minter wrapped up their collegiate basketball careers on Saturday afternoon from Heiges Field House but the Shippensburg men's basketball team concluded the regular season with a 68-61 loss to playoff-bound East Stroudsburg.

Shippensburg (9-17, 4-10 PSAC East) led for most of the first half but entered the locker room trailing by three points after the visitors went on a 7-1 run in the final 90 seconds of the opening frame. The lead changed hands 13 times overall, but ESU used a late 12-0 run to take control of the contest.

Junior forward Will Royal led all scorers with 15 points and grabbed six boards. Fellow junior Craig Van Scyoc delivered 11 points; freshman Dylan Edgar had 10 points and a team-high seven rebounds, and Gembe dished out six assists to become just the second Raider in seven years to finish with 100 or more in a season.

The difference on Saturday was turnovers – as SU committed just five in the first half but relinquished the ball to the Warriors 11 times in the second half. ESU scored 16 points off turnovers in the contest and also got 26 points from its bench, including a double-double from Marcus Brown. The Warrior sophomore has scored 51 points in four career games at Heiges Field House – two of those games were against neutral-site opponents.

Van Scyoc was 3 of 5 from three-point range in the contest and finished the year shooting 63 of 125 (50.4 percent) from long distance. He was eight three-pointers short of the single-season school record and will enter his senior year having made

Gembe finished up a career year in which he averaged 9.3 points and 4.0 assists per game while ranking among the NCAA's Top 30 players in assist-to-turnover ratio. Overall, Gembe appeared in 104 career games for the Raiders, scored 463 points and dished out 240 assists.

Gembe scored a career-high 20 points this season in a win this season over Wilmington (Del.) and entered the game as the fourth-most accurate three-point shooter in the PSAC.

Minter took to the court for more than 2,000 minutes with the Raider basketball program, appearing in 93 career games and scoring 615 points during his tenure.

In each of his first two seasons, Minter scored more than 200 points - including a freshman campaign in which he averaged 8.2 points per game and had a career-high 43 assists. Overall, Minter collected 250 rebounds and 132 assists during his career while making 45 three-pointers.