One week ago, Millersville walked out of Hollinger Fieldhouse with a five-point loss and a singular goal–get back there and beat West Chester in the PSAC Tournament. Goal accomplished. Millersville rallied from nine points down and sparked by a career-high 28 points from Jahme Ested and the 3-point shooting of Aiden Gair, the Marauders stormed to the finish, advancing to the PSAC Semifinals with an 85-71 win.

Millersville is back in the PSAC’s final four for the third time in four seasons and is the only Eastern Division team that can stake that claim. While it was Millersville’s first postseason win at West Chester since 2005, Millersville has won four of the last five, eight of the last 10, and two consecutive tournament games against their rivals. West Chester led the PSAC in rebounding during the regular season, but Millersville won the rebounding battle in all three meetings, and Millersville’s two wins came by a combined total of 50 points.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
Millersville held a 40-36 edge on the glass, and West Chester finished with four offensive rebounds–four fewer than its season average.

Millersville limited West Chester to 35.9% shooting. West Chester shot under 38% eight times in 29 games, and three of those games were against Millersville.
Gair played all 40 minutes, and Ested played 39.

UP NEXT
It was a night of upsets in the PSAC Tournament as No. 3 seed Shepherd won at East Stroudsburg. That moves the final three games of the tournament to Shepherd where Millersville plays PSAC West champ Gannon on Saturday at 1 p.m. Shepherd plays Cal U on the other side of the bracket. Millersville and Gannon is a rematch of last season’s semifinal. Gannon, with home court advantage, won 98-64 on its way to the PSAC Championship.