Edinboro, Pa. – The Edinboro women's basketball team dropped a 78-67 to visiting Wayne State Tuesday night inside McComb Fieldhouse.
 
The Scots got out early opening the game up 6-2 behind four points from Ava Haddad and an Ashten Boggs layup. The Warriors answered back with a 5-3 spurt cutting the lead to lead to 9-7 on a layup by Shea Tripp. Hayley Sims hit a jumper and Gillian Fisher hit a triple to extend the lead to 14-7 at the 3:44 mark of the first quarter.
 
Wayne State trimmed the lead down to 18-16 after a McKenna Ferguson 3-pointer at the 1:25 mark. Boggs hit a pair of free throws to make it 20-16 after the first.
 
In the second, Wayne State opened the quarter on a 16-4 run capped by an Alyssa Leister jumper with 4:02 remaining. Morgan Gentile cut the lead to 32-27 with an old-school 3-point play at the 3:06 mark of the second. The Warriors pushed the lead back to seven, 36-29, but the Scots closed on a 4-0 run to cut the halftime deficit to 36-33.
 
Taylor Thompson scored the first basket of the second half, but Haddad scored a layup and Fisher hit a trey to knot the score 38-38. The Warriors scored six straight to take a 44-38 advantage and took an eight-point lead, 55-47, into the final stanza.
 
Wayne State scored the first five points of the fourth to grow the lead to 60-47. Hope Garrity hit threes on back-to-back possessions to cut the lead to 60-53. The Warriors pushed back with an 8-2 spurt to extend the lead to 68-55 and the Scots wouldn't close the gap to less than eight the rest of the way.
 
Four Scots scored in double figures led by 13 each from Sims and Fisher. Gentile added 12 points and Garrity tallied 11 on 4-of-6 shooting including 3-of-5 from beyond the arc. Haddad tallied a team-high eight boards to go with eight points.
 
Ferguson paced the Warriors with 17 points while Becca Fugate tallied 13. Tripp notched 12 points while Kate McArthur and Gabi Lutchka each scored 10.
 
The Scots are back in action on Friday when they travel to Kutztown for a 1 p.m. tipoff.