Game 1
Game 2

Bloomsburg, Pa. - After suffering a disappointing 2-1 loss in Sunday's opener at Bloomsburg, the Millersville baseball team struck early in game two and rode the arm of Ryan Stauffer to win 5-3 and salvage the doubleheader split.

The win in game two helped the Marauders (10-15, 4-6 PSAC East) to its third win of the four-game PSAC Eastern Division series. Bloomsburg fell to 6-20 overall and 2-8 in league play.

Despite winning one of two, both of Millersville's starting pitchers certainly pitched well enough to win. Junior Derek Kline started game one and held the Huskies to one hit and one walk but was still tagged with the loss. The one hit he allowed came in the first inning and it proved costly. After striking out the first batter of the game, an error put Chris Tressler aboard. One batter later, Jerry Lloyd made the Marauders pay for the error by blasting a two-run homer.

Millersville out-hit the Huskies 6-1 in the game, but stranded eight runners on base. Miles Gallagher accounted for Millersville's only run with a solo home run--his team-leading fifth of the year--in the fourth inning.

It was Kline's third loss in six starts, he has allowed only eight earned runs in 27.2 innings of work.

Millersville quickly overcame the game one defeat by scoring three runs in the first. Kline drove in Ryan McCormick and Miles Gallagher with an RBI double, and sophomore Adam Boyd later drove in Kline with an RBI single.

Stauffer (3-1) allowed one run in the first on a wild pitch, but the damage could have been worse. The Huskies recorded three hits in the inning, but Millersville turned a 6-4-3 double play, and Stauffer stranded one of Bloomsburg's eight runners by getting a ground out to end the inning.

Kent Gerdes provided some insurance for the Marauders in the fourth, doubling in a run and scoring on a wild pitch to put Millersville up 5-1.

Bloomsburg, which totaled 12 hits in the game, scratched together one more in the fifth and the seventh but couldn't crack Stauffer. The senior lefty closed the game on his own for his second complete game of the season. He struck out five, walked two and allowed two earned runs.

McCormick went 1-for-2 but reached base three times with two walks. Gallagher and Scott Stevens also walked twice, giving Millersville more walks (six) than hits (five).

Millersville hosts Lock Haven in a PSAC crossover doubleheader Tuesday. First pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m.