SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – The Shippensburg University women's basketball team came up just short Saturday in a hotly-contested PSAC East battle with No. 18 Bloomsburg, falling 65-64 to the Huskies inside Heiges Field House.
 
Shippensburg (13-8, 9-6 PSAC) took a one-point lead, 64-63, with 25 seconds remaining in regulation after two free throws from sophomore Morgan Griffith, but the Huskies answered with a lay-up with 13 seconds left on the clock that proved to be the final points of the game.
 
Griffith had a team-high 19 points, leading four Raiders in double figures, including a 6-of-7 mark at the charity stripe and totaled six rebounds and two assists. Junior Stephanie Knauer totaled 11 points on 5-of-7 shooting from the field and pulled down nine rebounds.
 
Sophomore Logan Snyder scored 15 points, including 3-of-5 from three-point range, while sophomore Lauren Gold tallied 11 points, four assists, four rebounds and one steal. Freshman Vicky Tumasz scored six points off the bench, connecting on 2-of-5 three-point attempts, and had two steals.
 
Bloomsburg (17-2, 15-1) led for the majority of the opening frame and by as many as nine, its largest lead of the game, at 29-20 with 4:27 remaining in the half. The Raiders countered with a 14-5 run to close the frame, ultimately resulting in a 34-34 tie at halftime. It was just the second halftime tie of the season for SU.
 
Neither team led by more than six points in the second half. SU's biggest lead of the game was six points, occurring early in the second half.
 
The teams had nearly identical performances in the first half, as each shot 5-of-11 from three-point range while SU shot 12-of-28 (42.9 percent) from the field and BU went 12-of-26 (46.2 percent).
 
Overall, Shippensburg shot 23-of-58 (39.7 percent) from the field, and 8-of-20 (40 percent) from three-point range. The Raiders, second in the country in free-throw attempts entering Saturday, were sent to the line just 12 times in the game, making 10 attempts.
 
Bloomsburg shot 26-of-52 (50 percent) from the field, made 7-of-10 from the free-throw line, and held a 34-31 rebounding advantage. The Raiders entered the contest ranked 23rd in the country in field-goal defense (35.8 percent), and first in the PSAC with 43.9 rebounds per game.
 
The Raiders totaled 13 assists and 13 turnovers while Bloomsburg had 10 assists and 16 turnovers. The Huskies held a 7-0 advantage in blocks including six from junior Adreana Sadowski, who also totaled seven points and seven rebounds. BU senior Marla Simmons had a game-high 30 points, including the game-winning basket.
 
Shippensburg is at East Stroudsburg Wednesday for a 6 p.m. matchup with the Warriors.