Seton Hill hosted Salem International on Wednesday evening as their home opener for the 2015-16 season.  The Griffins led by as many as 11 points in the first quarter, saw Salem respond to take a seven point lead in the third quarter only to see the Griffins rally for a 65-52 victory over the visiting Tigers.  SHU improves to 2-1 on the season while the Tigers fall to 0-2.

After a slow start over the game's first three minutes where the Griffins only held a 6-4 lead, SHU then went on a 10-1 run over the next 2:36 to take a 16-5 lead with 4:17 to play in the first quarter.  Five different Griffins scored 2 points over the 10-1 run.  SIU trimmed the lead to 6 at 18-12 with 1:25 remaining in the period but Halie Torris drained a three to push the lead back to 21-12.  Salem scored the final basket of the quarter as SHU led 21-14 at the end of the first quarter. 

The Tigers scored the first four points of the second quarter before Jenna Kaufman ended the mini run with a three pointer.  Kaufman hit her second three of the quarter and SHU led 29-24 with 5:19 left in the half.  The Griffins would go scoreless over the final five minutes plus and Salem scored seven points to take a 32-29 lead into the halftime break. 

Jharrin Gill hit two free throws to open the second half scoring.  Salem International then went on a 5-0 run to build their largest lead of the game at 37-30 with 8:27 to play in the third quarter.  Two free throws from Lindsey Mifsud and baskets from Kaufman and Alexandria Deep cut the SIU lead to 37-36 midway through the third quarter.  Following a SIU layip, Torris hit her second three of the contest to tie the score at 39.  Torris followed that with another three pointer to give the Griffins the lead and SHU would never look back.  SHU led 46-40 after three quarters of play. 

Salem was able to trim the lead to three points twice in the fourth quarter, the last at the 4:38 mark with SHU leading 51-48.  Mariah Wells then hit a three and Alexandra Hay followed with a layup to push the lead nack to 56-50 with 3:32 to play.  Back to back buckets from Wells extended the SHU lead to 60-52 with 2:23 to play.  SHU then scored the final five points of the contest for the 65-52 win.

SHU finished the game shooting 41% from the floor while holding the Tigers to 36%.  The Griffins forced 28 turnovers, resulting in 16 steals, the ninth most by a Griffin team since joining the NCAA. 

Mariah Wells led the Griffins with 14 points.  Jenna Kaufman finished the game with 12 points.  Halie Torris added 11 points off the bench.  Chrisanna Green finsihed with 6 points and a game high 10 rebounds.

Seton Hill will return to action this weekend when they host Bloomsburg on Saturday and East Stroudsburg on Sunday with tip off at 1 PM each day.