{"id":67282,"date":"2025-12-22T05:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67282\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T05:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:05:13","slug":"slaters-career-day-propels-gannon-to-11th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67282\/","title":{"rendered":"Slater&#8217;s Career Day Propels Gannon to 11th Straight Win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Raiders-SAnchor-200x200.png\" alt=\"Shippensburg \"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p> Shippensburg <\/p>\n<p>1\/2\/2026 | 3:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Jan. 02 (Fri) \/ 3:00 PM&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Raiders-SAnchor-200x200.png\" alt=\"Shippensburg \"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0Shippensburg &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"769\" data-start=\"329\">THE GAME FACTS<br data-end=\"788\" data-start=\"785\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\nFinal Score: Gannon 56, Millersville 45<br data-end=\"830\" data-start=\"827\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\nRecords: Gannon 12-1, 4-0 PSAC \u2022 Millersville 4-5, 0-3 PSAC<br data-end=\"892\" data-start=\"889\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\nLocation: Pucillo Gymnasium (Millersville, Pa.)<br data-end=\"942\" data-start=\"939\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\nDate: December 21, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Millersville, Pa. \u2013 Gannon closed the 2025 calendar year with a disciplined road performance on Sunday afternoon, using a strong fourth quarter to pull away for a 56\u201345 PSAC victory over Millersville at Pucillo Gymnasium. In a game that featured six ties and 11 lead changes, the Golden Knights outscored the Marauders 22\u201311 in the final period to remain unbeaten in conference play.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"2031\" data-start=\"969\">THE KNIGHT CAP<br data-end=\"986\" data-start=\"983\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2022 Late Separation: Gannon turned a one-point game entering the fourth quarter into an 11-point win by holding Millersville to 11 points over the final 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Slater&#8217;s Career Day: <a href=\"https:\/\/gannonsports.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/mia-slater\/10999\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10999\" target=\"_blank\">Mia Slater<\/a> (Canberra, Australia\/Canberra Grammar School) led all scorers with 23 points off the bench, shooting 10-for-17 from the field and scoring 15 after halftime. The 23 points was a career high for the Aussie.<br data-end=\"1342\" data-start=\"1339\"\/><br \/>\n\u2022 Defensive Rebounding: Gannon won the battle on the glass 46\u201339, including 20 offensive rebounds that led to 14 second-chance points.<br data-end=\"1479\" data-start=\"1476\"\/><br \/>\n\u2022 Balanced Contributions: Eight different Golden Knights scored, with <a href=\"https:\/\/gannonsports.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/jordan-popyk\/10997\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10997\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Popyk<\/a> (Novi, Mich.\/Novi) and <a href=\"https:\/\/gannonsports.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/bri-claxon\/10990\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10990\" target=\"_blank\">Bri Claxon<\/a> (South Webster, Ohio\/South Webster) adding seven points apiece.<br data-end=\"1606\" data-start=\"1603\"\/><br \/>\n\u2022 Defensive Pressure: Gannon forced 18 Millersville turnovers and converted them into 14 points.<br data-end=\"1821\" data-start=\"1818\"\/><br \/>\n\u2022 Paint Presence: Gannon scored 28 points in the paint and limited Millersville to 18.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"2169\" data-start=\"2033\">THE NEXT GAME<br data-end=\"2049\" data-start=\"2046\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\nGannon will have the rest of 2025 off before returning home on Friday, January 2nd at 3:00 pm to host Shippensburg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"2218\" data-start=\"2171\">This story was written using the support of AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: Shippensburg 1\/2\/2026 | 3:00 PM &#13; Jan. 02 (Fri) \/ 3:00 PM&#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-67282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}