BLOOMSBURG, Pa. – The Bloomsburg women's basketball team falls to East Stroudsburg, 52 -42, in a low scoring contest Monday night.
 
Sophomore Katie Starr (Berwick, PA/Berwick) led the way for the Huskies with 14 points and 12 rebounds while Emma Gochnauer (Strasburg, Pa./Lampeter-Strasburg) ended with eight points and six boards. Ella Kale (Spring Grove, PA/Spring Grove) had a pair of assists to go with four points and Megan Fisher (New Holland, Pa./Garden Spot) had five points, two rebounds, and one steal.
 
As a team, the Huskies shot 36.0% (18-for-50) for the game and were 1-for-12 from behind the three-point line.
 
The Warriors were 20-for-41 (48.8%) for the game from the floor and just 1-for-6 from three-point range. East Stroudsburg was 11-for-16 from the free throw line.
 
Ryan Weise led the Warriors with nine points while Shyla Sanford, Katie Geisler, and Corrin Gill all finished with eight points.
 
The Huskies outrebounded the Warriors 36-22 and East Stroudsburg scored 22 points off the Huskies 27 turnovers.
 
The lead changed hands four times in the first quarter as ESU got out to an early 4-0 lead before a jumper from Gochnauer and layup by Starr tied it at 4-4. Izzy Vogel and Lauren Kirsch (Palmyra, PA/Lower Dauphin) traded baskets as the lead changed hands twice. Weise hit a pair of free throws to give the Warriors a 7-6 lead before Kale hit a jumper to grab the lead back for Bloomsburg. The advantage was short lived as a jumper from Leah Pishock and free throw by Carley Adams got the lead back for the Warriors, 10-8. After Fisher tied the game at 10-10, Vogel and Sanford hit back-to-back jumpers for East Stroudsburg to give the Warriors the lead for good.
 
East Stroudsburg led by as many as 11 in the second before the Huskies used a 5-0 run to end the quarter to cut the lead to six, 25-19, at halftime.
 
Bloomsburg opened the third quarter with four-straight points to get to within two, 25-23, but ESU closed out the quarter with a 12-4 run for a 37-27 lead.

Both teams scored 15 points in the fourth quarter as the Warriors held on for the 52-42 win.
 
Bloomsburg hits the road for three-straight games as the Huskies first head to Shepherd University on Saturday, February 11 for a 1:00 p.m. contest.