Game 1
Game 2

Millersville, Pa. - Home field hadn't been much of advantage for the Millersville baseball team entering Friday's PSAC East doubleheader against Shippensburg. And for the first five innings it appeared to be the same old story. However, a late rally in game one and some early offense in game two pushed the Marauders to a sweep of the visiting Red Raiders.

Millersville scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth of game one to earn a 3-2 win. It then scored three in the first three innings of the nightcap and held on for a 5-4 victory. The wins were crucial to the PSAC East playoff race standings. Millersville improved to 12-15 overall but more importantly evened its conference mark to 6-6. Shippensburg dropped to 9-20 overall and 4-4 in league play, but it had won seven of its last 10 entering Friday's doubleheader.

Millersville has now won five of its last six games. All six of those games were decided by fewer than two runs.

Even when the Marauders' couldn't generate runs, Forrest Mengle (3-2) kept them in the game. Mengle allowed just four hits in his complete game effort, marking the sixth time in six starts he has held an opponent to fewer than five hits.

Shippensburg scraped together a run in the third and one more in the fifth to take a 2-0 lead. Ship starter Jimmy Miller (2-3) was outstanding through five innings, but Ryan McCormick jump-started the Marauders' lineup with a lead-off single. Chris Edgar reached on a fielder's choice, Derek Kline followed with a single, and Miles Gallagher lofted a single over the third baseman's head to score Edgar.

Corey Phelan drove in Kline in the next at bat to tie the game at two, and Adam Boyd singled down the left field line to put the Marauders on top, 3-2.

Mengle stayed on the hill for the seventh inning and worked a 1-2-3 inning to secure his third complete game of the year. He struck out three and walked one while allowing just one earned run.

Six Marauders recorded a hit, and Mike DeSanto went 2-for-3.

The sixth-inning rally carried into the nightcap. Shippensburg was on the verge of a big first inning, but starter Brooks Rothschild (2-0) stranded three Red Raiders' runners after allowing two runs.

The Marauders took the lead with three runs in the bottom of the second. Gallagher led off with a double, and Phelan followed with a single. Boyd then drove in his second run of the day with a single, and freshman Jeff Heisey ripped a two-run double, scoring Phelan and Boyd.

The Marauders took advantage of two Ship errors in the third and pushed one more run across for a 4-2 lead.

Shippensburg picked up a run in the fifth to close the gap, but Millersville scored a key run in the bottom of the inning when Kline--on a perfectly executed hit-and-run--singled home McCormick, who reached second on a walk and steal.

Nursing a two run lead, the Marauders called on Zach Eckley to close the win. Eckley allowed one inherited runner to cross, but he picked up all three outs to earn his second save in as many attempts.

Rothschild earned the win after allowing three runs on four hits and five walks. Ted Williams (1-4) took the loss for Shippensburg, allowing five rouns—four earned—in five innings.

All eight Millersville hits were recorded by a different player and five different Marauders drove in a run.

Millersville will try to move above .500 in PSAC East play for the first time this year at Shippensburg Saturday. Live game stats can be followed by clicking here.