• Emily Dilger opened the scoring with a layup two minutes in, and the Sea Gulls eventually took a 6-0 lead on jumpers from Ashlynn Burrows and Dilger. The Marlins settled in, though, and trimmed the deficit to 10-9 on a pair of Sarah Ellis free throws with 3:00 to go.
• Burrows answered with a jumper and SU eventually rebuilt the lead to 17-11 after an Alex Bull bucket with 21 seconds left. Ellis responded with a jumper for VWU, bringing the first quarter to an end with Salisbury on top 17-13.
• The Sea Gulls turned up the defensive pressure during a second quarter that saw them outscore VWU 22-4. Leading 19-15 at the 8:23 mark, Burrows sank the first of back-to-back layups that sparked a 10-0 run. Burrows scored eight of the 10 points herself on the way to boosting the advantage to 29-15 with 6:07 to go.
• After the Marlins broke up the run with a two, Salisbury went on another 10-0 run to close out the period. Kolby Brown scored four of the 10 points, and a long straightaway two from Ainsley Raybold gave SU a 39-17 lead heading into halftime.
• Burrows opened the third quarter with a jumper to make it 41-17. Leading 52-25 later on, Dilger, Burrows and Bull connected on twos as part of a 6-0 run that made it 58-25 at the 3:08 mark.
• VWU netted four in a row on two pairs of free throws, but Sym Deloatch countered with a late layup that rebuilt the advantage to 60-29 at the end of the third.
• Brown, Dilger and Emma Wivell drained buckets as part of a 6-0 run to open the fourth quarter, making it 66-29. The Sea Gulls went 40 points clear with 2:50 to go after a Deloatch layup that made it 75-34.
• SU led by as many as 42 late before a Kayla Nieberlein free throw with 57 seconds left gave the game its final 77-36 margin.

• Ashlynn Burrows scored a career-high 22 points on a dead-eye 11-of-13 line from the floor. Burrows also hauled in five rebounds with three assists.
• Emily Dilger shot 8-of-14 from the floor on the way to scoring 18 points, plus five boards and four steals.
• Sym Deloatch came off the bench to score nine points and corral six boards in 19 minutes.
• Kolby Brown chipped in eight points and dished out four assists.
• Tori Rumbaugh distributed seven assists in her first career start.
• The Sea Gulls shot 53.1 percent (34-of-64) from the floor, assisting on 25 of their 34 baskets. SU made 7-of-14 (50 percent) free throws and went 2-of-6 (33.3 percent) from three-point range.
• Salisbury outrebounded the Marlins 40-29, including 10-5 on the offensive glass.
• SU was plus-12 on the turnover margin, forcing 25 Marlin turnovers and racking up 12 steals.

• Adaje Williams and Sarah Ellis tied for the Marlins' lead with eight points each on a combined 6-of-15 shooting.
• Natalia Collier netted five points with six rebounds.
• Sydnee Washington scored four points and grabbed four steals.
• The Marlins shot 27.9 percent (12-of-43) for the game, including just 1-of-10 (10 percent) from downtown.

• The Sea Gulls will head to Erie, Pa., for the Penn State-Behrend Tip-Off Tournament on Friday and Saturday.
• Salisbury opens the weekend bracket with a Friday matchup against Carnegie Mellon at 8 p.m. Depending on that result the Sea Gulls will face either PSU-Behrend or Otterbein on Saturday at 1 p.m. or 3 p.m.

Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with primary membership in the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, along with the New Jersey Athletic Conference for football, Coastal Lacrosse Conference for men's lacrosse and the Metropolitan Swimming and Diving Conference for men's and women's swimming. With over 500 student-athletes in 21 varsity sports, SU is recognized as one of the most competitive intercollegiate athletics programs regardless of division, and dedicated coaches and staff that foster excellence on-and-off the field. The Sea Gulls have celebrated 22 team national championships, 24 individual national champions, 187 conference championships and 43 Academic All-Americans.