Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score

Millersville, Pa. - The streaking East Stroudsburg baseball team rolled into Millersville Saturday and dealt the Marauders a pair of crippling defeats by scores of 3-1 and 12-4, completing the series sweep.

The Warriors--winners of nine of their last 10--pulled ahead of the Marauders in the PSAC Eastern Division standings and moved into playoff position with the sweep. Both teams are now 9-11 in conference play, but ESU (22-16) holds the tiebreaker over the Marauders.

Millersville (19-23), which has dropped six in a row, continued its offensive slump, providing game one starter Derek Kline with just one run of support. The team has managed 12 runs during its six-game slide. The 3-1 loss in the opener marked the fourth-straight game of scoring one run.

Kline (3-4) scattered six hits and walked just one in a complete game effort, but ESU starter Colin Kelly (3-2) more than matched Kline's efforts. Kelly gave up one unearned run on four hits and fanned seven Marauders in seven innings.

Kent Gerdes gave the Marauders an early lead in the second on an RBI single. ESU, however, manufactured a run in third to tie the game and took the lead for good in the fifth when Tom Spilatore led off with a triple and Carey Zimmerman plated him with a sacrifice fly. ESU added one more for good measure in the top of the seventh.

Millersville fell behind 1-0 after the first inning in game two, as well. A three-run homer from freshman Jeff Heisey in the second put the Marauders in front 3-1, though. ESU retook the lead in its next at bat with five-straight singles to begin the inning. Before Forrest Mengle (3-3) could escape the inning, ESU piled up five runs on six hits.

The Marauders never recovered from ESU's third-inning eruption. Mengle lasted four innings and allowed nine runs on nine hits. Three different Millersville relievers also allowed one run apiece.

ESU starter Ryan Beck (4-3) picked up the win after allowing four runs on 11 hits in seven innings.

Heisey was a bright spot for the Marauders, going 3-for-3 with a homer, double, single, two RBIs and two runs scored. Ryan Chesler also drove in a run and tallied two hits.

Millersville hosts Wilmington in a non-conference, nine inning game Tuesday at 1 p.m. The PSAC East schedule concludes with a doubleheader Friday at Kutztown and a home doubleheader against Kutztown Saturday. Kutztown and West Chester have two of the four playoff spots locked up, and Mansfield and ESU both hold tiebreakers over the Marauders.