Game 1
Game 2

Shepherdstown, W.Va. - The Millersville baseball team picked up a much-needed split at Shepherd Wednesday, winning game one 8-3 before falling late in the nightcap by a 3-2 score.

Millersville (7-14) entered the doubleheader scuffling, having lost nine of 10. But in the opener, the Marauders received a big lift from little-used Scott Stevens and senior Kent Gerdes, who hit his second home run of the season. Both players recorded two hits and drove in three runs.

Millersville's other two runs came off the bat of freshman Ryan Chesler in the first inning. He helped the Marauders strike first with a single up the middle.

Jason S. Long (2-2) turned in a workman-like effort in his first start of the season. He allowed eight hits and walked five, but managed to keep Shepherd to only three runs. The Rams scored one in the first, one in the third and one more in the fifth, but Long gave up only one extra base hit and stranded 11 Rams on base in his 5.2 innings of action. Conversely, the Marauders left only five on base the entire game.

Bryan Wolfe (0-3) took the loss for Shepherd after allowing four runs on three hits and three walks in four innings. Millersville also scored two off reliever Sean Wiles and one more off Adam Lauer.

Stevens, who had appeared in just four games prior to Wednesday's doubleheader, continued to hit in game two. He went 2-for-3 with a double and scored a run. In his six appearances, Stevens is 9-for-16 with four doubles.

Unfortunately for Millersville, Stevens was the only Marauder bat to record more than one hit in game two. Shepherd's pitcher-by-committee strategy kept Millersville off-balance. Jeff Heisey's single gave the Marauders two runs in the second inning off starter Kyle Shifflette, but from the third inning on, Shepherd employed a different pitcher every inning and kept Millersville off the board.

Millersville used a similar plan with Derek Kline working the first two innings before handing the ball to the bullpen. Kline worked through his two innings without issue, and Aaron Wilkins (0-1) pitched two more shutout innings. But with two outs already recorded in his third frame, Wilkins gave up an RBI single and a two-run homer to back-to-back batters, putting Millersville down by one.

Kline singled in the sixth to put the tying run on base, but Millersville was unable to push him across. Millersville had one more chance in the seventh, and the first two batters of the inning--Stevens and Adam Boyd--singled to put the go-ahead run on base. Heisey bunted the two into scoring position, but Kenny Reisinger sat down the next two Marauders to end the threat and notch his second save of the year.

Millersville travels to Bloomsburg Friday to start a key PSAC Eastern Division series. Friday's doubleheader begins at 1 p.m. The Marauders return to Millersville Saturday for a 1 p.m. doubleheader.