Box Score Lock Haven, Pa. - With 16 minutes left in Saturday's PSAC Tournament first round game at Lock Haven, Millersville faced nearly insurmountable odds. The Marauders trailed by 19 points and despite a racous crowd, two previous losses to Lock Haven and 11 road losses this season, they stormed back for an 81-75 win that pushes them into the PSAC Quarterfinals on Tuesday. 

Lock Haven's (17-10) crowd was relishing in the program's first home tournament game since 1989 until Millersville (13-13) scored 47 points in just over 16 minutes to complete an epic comeback. Kelvin Parker scored 14 of his 17 points in that span while senior Brandon Brown scored 11 of his career-high-matching 21 points. The Marauders shot 15-of-22 down the stretch and made 6-of-8 3-pointers. It was quite a shooting exhibition considering that the Marauders started the game 3-of-15 from three and had made just 8-of-51 threes in the first two meetings with Lock Haven. 

The Marauders now advance to play nationally-ranked and top-seeded East Stroudsburg in Kohler Fieldhouse on Tuesday. Coach Fred Thompson is now 20-16 all-time in the PSAC Tournament and has won six consecutive opening round games. 

Millersville entered the game with a 2-11 road record and the game was certainly trending toward a 12th loss. Lock Haven closed the first half on a 10-3 run to take a 45-33 lead into the break. The Bald Eagles continued to roll after the break by scoring eight of the first nine points. 

The comeback started innocently enough with a pair of free throws from Brown. Parker followed with a three-point play, and nine minutes later, Millersville cut Lock Haven's lead to 64-63. Lock Haven managed to hold off the Marauders until Parker hit a three to cut make the score 67-66, and Tyree Smith canned two free throws with 4:31 left to give the Marauders their first lead. Wali Hepburn, the PSAC's leading scorer, who totaled a game-high 23 for his team, took the lead back with a jumper, but Brown answered at the other end with two of his own. That hoop gave Millersville the lead for good. 

Brown and Parker traded four points with Hepburn, but with 1:03 left, Brown hit a 3-pointer as the shot clock wound down, putting the Marauders up by four. Bootsie Walker made a pair of foul shots with 45 seconds to go to pull the Bald Eagles within two, but Smith provided the clincher when he hit and three, was fouled, and converted the four-point play with 10 seconds to go. The six-point advantage was far too much for Lock Haven to overcome. 

Millersville made 6-of-7 shots from the field in the final five minutes and committed just one turnover in the final 16 minutes. 

East Stroudsburg, 25-1 and ranked No. 3 in Division II, will host the Marauders for a 7 p.m. tip on Tuesday.