Box Score

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – In a high-scoring back-and-forth conference crossover affair that included 16 second-half lead changes, the Shippensburg University women's basketball team was unable to wrestle the lead back in the final seven minutes of a 95-90 Friday afternoon loss to PSAC West rival California (Pa.) from Heiges Field House.

Sophomore Stephanie Knauer scored a career-high 31 points on 10-of-13 shooting and an 11-of-13 efficiency from the free-throw line while adding a season-high 16 rebounds to lead the Raiders (8-3), but the Vulcans (6-5) were powered by three 20-point scorers, including 28 from Miki Glenn and 27 from Kaitlynn Fratz.

Senior Sarah Strybuc shot 3-of-7 from long range and contributed 19 points while senior Lauren Barnett scored a career-high 10 points in 18 minutes off the bench.

California led for the majority of the first half as the Raiders cut their deficit to one on three occasions, but a 10-0 Vulcan run beginning with under seven minutes left before half swelled the Cal lead to 36-25.

Shippensburg out-scored Cal 15-9 to close out the final four minutes of the half and cut Cal's halftime lead to just five, 45-40. SU started out the half quick with a Strybuc three-pointer and a wide-open lay-in from freshman Morgan Griffith (eight points on 4-of-6 shooting) to tie the game just 51 seconds into the half.

Knauer – who entered halftime a rebound shy of a double-double – followed up that sequence with a three-point play on the next possession that polished off a 10-0 SU run dating back to the end of the first half and gave the Raiders a 48-45 advantage for their first lead since a minute and a half into the game.

Shippensburg grew its lead to as many as four, up 59-55 with under 13 minutes left, but Cal wrestled the lead back with a four-point advantage of its own after an 8-0 run. The teams traded leads for the next five minutes with no lead greater than three points, but a Miki Glenn jumper at the 5:53 mark capped off a 10-2 Cal run for a five-point, 79-74 lead.

California watched its lead grow to as many as seven points on two occasions the rest of the way as the Vulcans shot 8-of-10 from the free-throw line in the final 1:27 of play to hold off any potential Raider comeback.

Freshman Logan Snyder added nine points in 25 minutes off the bench while freshman Lauren Gold scored eight points with a 6-of-6 effort from the free-throw line to go along with a team-best three assists.

Shippensburg hosts Slippery Rock at 1 p.m. Saturday.