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Mansfield Keeps Marauders Sliding

Game 1
Game 2

Mansfield, Pa. - Mansfield racked up 20 runs and 22 hits in handing the visiting Millersville baseball team a pair of PSAC Eastern Division losses Saturday afternoon.

Mansfield used five unearned runs in the sixth inning of game one to pull away with a 13-5 win. The Mountaineers followed up with a seven-run first inning in game two and rolled to a 7-2 triumph. Mansfield improved to 9-5 overall and 3-1 in PSAC East play with the sweep, and the Marauders dropped to 6-11 overall and 1-3 in division play. Millersville has now lost seven of its last eight games.

Senior Miles Gallagher led Millersville with five RBIs on two homers including a grand slam in the opener, but it was not enough for the Marauders. Gallagher's grand slam put the Marauders up 5-4 lead in the top of fifth, but Millersville left the the bases loaded in the inning, and Mansfield wasted no time answering.

The Mountaineers took advantage of two walks with an RBI single from Chris Coleman and a three-run bomb from Dan Lough. The four-run inning put Mansfield in front 8-5, and the Mountaineers pulled away in the sixth after a Millersville error opened the door to five unearned runs.

Coleman went 4-for-4 with three RBIs, and Lough tallied three hits and six RBIs. Bernard Johnson (3-0) picked up the win in the relief three shutout innings in which he allowed just one hit. Zach Eckley took the loss for the Marauders after allowing seven runs--two earned--in 1.2 innings of work.

Millersville tried to bounce back in the nightcap out-hitting Mansfield 9-8, but the Marauders stranded nine bases runners and were held scoreless by Andy Young until the seventh. Mansfield scored all seven of its runs in the bottom of the first inning off Millersville starter Derek Kline (1-2).

Brian Danner led off the inning with a solo homer, and John Taddeo capped the inning with a two-run homer of his own.

Millersville put runners on base in six of seven innings, but Young kept Millersville off the board. It wasn't until the seventh that Millersville cracked the scoring column with a two-run double from Kline and an RBI single from Gallagher.

Millersville will look to bounce back Tuesday at home against West Chester. The opener is scheduled to start at 1 p.m.
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