Box Score

SELINSGROVE, Pa. – Sunday's Susquehanna women's basketball game against King's College featured 12 lead changes and saw the score knotted on six separate occasions, and unfortunately it was the Monarchs who pulled away late to win the 2010 Pepsi/Weis Tip-Off Tournament title with an 88-79 win.

Despite the loss, SU history was made as senior Erika Barron (Tamaqua, Pa./Tamaqua Area) became the program's all-time three-point shooter. She went 6-for-10 from beyond the arc to bring her career total to 115 treys, surpassing the previous mark of 111, held by Amy Harrington '02.

Barron, who earned All-Tournament Team honors, finished the game with 22 points, 18 of which came from three-point range, and a game-high seven assists.

Sophomore Gina Palazzi (Newfoundland, Pa./Wallenpaupack Area) had a career afternoon for Susquehanna (1-2) as she poured in 29 points on a 10-of-18 shooting performance and pulled down a game-high 15 rebounds, nearly half of which came on the offensive end of the court.

Also reaching double figures was senior captain Rachael Hughes (Gordon, Pa./North Schuylkill), who added 18 to go along with six rebounds, two blocks and two steals.

The game started out in favor of King's as the team opened up a 10-4 lead over Susquehanna after less than four minutes of action.

The Crusaders saw their first lead of the afternoon four minutes later when Hughes made it 13-12 on a jumper at the 12:02 mark.

The lead proceeded to change hands for the remainder of half, with neither squad taking more than a seven-point advantage at any time. Susquehanna went ahead four with 16 seconds left thanks to a Palazzi jumper and took a 40-36 into halftime.

SU held on to its lead until a King's three from Lindsay Atchcison with 14:52 on the clock tied it at 50-all. The Crusaders regained a four-point lead (62-58) midway through the half on one of Barron's six threes.

Both teams continued battling back and forth until the Monarchs took what would be a permanent lead with 6:06 on the clock on a Carissa Gegaris three.

Three minutes later the Crusaders still remained within one of the lead (76-75), but King's out-scored SU 12-4 over the final 3:07 with six of those points coming from the charity stripe.

In the consolation game, the University of Pittsburgh-Bradford defeated Keystone College 65-44.

King's men's and women's team both won the tournament titles as the men defeated Susquehanna 67-61 on Saturday afternoon.

Women's Tournament MVP: King's Celia Rader

All-Tournament Team: Paige Carlin (King's), Erika Barron (Susquehanna), Gina Palazzi (Susquehanna), Ellen Fallon (Keystone), Danielle Zeamer (Pitt-Bradford)

Next game: Tuesday, Nov. 23 at Messiah – 7 p.m.