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SHIPPENSBURG—The Bloomsburg University women's basketball team dropped its regular season finale on Wednesday night falling to Shippensburg, 60-42, in a PSAC (Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference) Eastern Division game.
 
The Huskies (13-13, 10-12 PSAC East) will be the fifth seed in the upcoming PSAC playoffs and will play at the four seed, East Stroudsburg, on Saturday at a time to be announced pending the outcome of the Warriors men's game at Millersville. If the East Stroudsburg men beat Millersville, the game time will be 1 p.m.
 
The meeting between the teams on Wednesday was nothing like the first matchup this year where the Huskies won 88-62 with Adreana Sadowski (Fleetwood/Brandywine Heights) scoring a school record 43 points. Tonight's opening 10 minutes was a back and forth with six lead changes and one tie. Bloomsburg briefly held one-point leads, three times, the last coming on a layup by Sadowski with 5:38 to go in the period. Shippensburg though closed out the period on a 9-4 run to lead 18-14 after the first quarter.
 
In the second quarter the Raiders extended their lead to as many as nine points, 28-14, with 2:43 to go in half. The Huskies though got two layups from Alex Ross (Lancaster/Manheim Township) and a free throw from Julia Gantz (Havertown/Archbishop John Carroll) in the final minutes to narrow the gap to 28-24 at the break.
 
In the third period Shippensburg scored the first five points of the period to regain a nine-point edge, 33-24. The Huskies came right back with four straight points from Sadowski to make it 33-28. That would be as close as Bloomsburg would get the rest of the way. Two free throws from Shippensburg's Lauren Gold make it a 41-30 game after three periods.
 
In the fourth, Bloomsburg's Morgan Klunk (Felton/York Catholic) scored four straight points to close the gap to seven points at 41-34, but the Raiders answered with an 8-0 run to put the game out of reach. The Huskies briefly got the deficit back under 10 points when Gantz hit a jumper with 3:03 to play. But Shippensburg closed with an 11-2 run to win by 18.
 
Klunk led the Huskies with 11 points, while Sadowski scored 10 points and grabbed nine rebounds. Shippensburg (20-6, 16-6), the two-seed in the upcoming playoffs, got 20 points from Gold and 12 points from Morgan Griffith.
 
Notes: With 10 points Sadowski now has 1,158 points and moved past Christie Berry for 15^th place on the school's all-time list…The loss to Shippensburg was just the second in the last 11 meetings between the teams.