SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – The Shippensburg University women's basketball team used an 8-0 run to start double overtime on Friday night and surge past visiting Millersville, 91-77, in a foul-ridden, seesaw affair to open the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division schedule from Heiges Field House.
 
Shippensburg (7-5, 4-2 PSAC) and Millersville (5-6, 2-4) exchanged the lead 23 times and played to 10 ties Friday while combining for 62 fouls, resulting in a game where pace and flow was all but non-existent after the first quarter. Five players ended up fouling out, including two in regulation (one from each team).
 
The Raiders finished 28-of-41 (68 percent) at the free-throw line, while the Marauders were 23-of-33 (70 percent). MU's Lauren Lister and SU's Ariel Jones, the PSAC's two-leading scorers entering Friday, each scored 26 points – Lister was 14-of-19 at the free-throw line and Jones was 10-of-12.
 
Perhaps not surprising given the above details is the fact that neither team held a lead of more than five points throughout all of regulation and the first overtime. SU's 8-0 run to start double overtime eroded that fact, as the Raiders shot 6-of-9 from the field and 7-of-9 at the free-throw line over the final five minutes while Millersville was 1-of-9 from the field over the same span.
 
Friday marked Shippensburg's first double-overtime game in nearly 10 years, as the Raiders opened the 2010-11 season with a 94-92 win at Shepherd. It was also the first time that SU went to overtime on its home floor since the 2017 PSAC Semifinals against IUP.
 
Shippensburg shot 41 percent from the field and attempted just six three-pointers on the night – the lone make coming from junior Destiny Jefferson with 1:25 left in the first overtime to give the Raiders a 72-71 lead. Millersville finished 30 percent from the field, including 6-of-29 (21 percent) from three-point range.
 
SU equaled its season high with 56 points in the paint, and the Raiders did not commit a turnover over the final nine minutes of overtime.
 
En route to her 26 points, Jones was 8-of-22 from the field and was held without a three-pointer. She added seven rebounds and three assists and played all 50 minutes of Friday's game.

Jones cracked SU's all-time Top 10 in career scoring; she now sits 10th in school history with 1,567 points. She also surpassed 500 career free throws on Friday night and now ranks third in school history (506), just 26 shy of Lauren Beckley's school record.
 
Sophomore Aunbrielle Green had a signature performance, scoring 19 points on 7-of-14 shooting and 5-of-7 at the free-throw line to complement a career-high 18 rebounds. It is Green's second double-double of the season and the eighth of her career. She finished two points shy of her single-game career high.
 
Jefferson finished with 13 points and equaled a career high with 14 rebounds – all defensive – to achieve her second double-double of the season and career. Her made three-pointer came on her only long-range attempt of the night. She also had two assists, a steal and a block.
 
Junior Kryshell Gordy reached double figures for the third time this season before fouling out in overtime. Gordy had 13 points, six rebounds, three assists, two steals and two blocks.
 
Sophomore Lauren Pettis was excellent in 18 minutes off the bench, finishing with eight points, six rebounds, three assists and zero turnovers. Pettis was integral to the team during overtime, in which she played all 10 minutes and produced five of her eight points, three rebounds, and all three of her assists.
 
Shippensburg hosts Mansfield at 6 p.m. Monday from Heiges Field House.