Millersville, Pa – Millersville and East Stroudsburg came into today's PSAC East confrontation needing wins in the conference standings. East Stroudsburg pulled out two closely contested games by scores of 5-3 and 7-5 to jump Millersville in the PSAC Eastern Division.

The first inning of play showed how the day would unfold. East Stroudsburg (11-16, 2-6 PSAC East) scored two runs with two outs to take an early 2-0 lead. Millersville (11-17, 1-7 PSAC East) responded in the bottom half with two-out rally of its own.

Allison Chew drove in Davina Kachnovitz from second with her fifth double of the year to cut the deficit to one.

After a scoreless second inning the Warriors chased out Millersville's starter Courtney Eckman (2-4) in the third by putting two more runs up on the board. Following suit the Marauders answered the two runs with one of their own in the bottom half to lock the score at 4-2 through three.

Kelly Fitzgerald hit her 10^th double of the year to drive in Kachnovitz from first.

The scored stayed the same into the seventh and final inning of play.

East Stroudsburg made another two-out rally to score a run and increased its lead to 5-2 heading into the final three outs of regulation.

Kachnovitz led off the bottom of the seventh with a single. Fitzgerald followed with another single, driving Kachnovitz home for the second time in the game to give her all three Millersville runs.

The bases were then loaded with two outs after Chew, Casey Coker and Deanna Schneiderreit found themselves on the base-pads. In Millersvile's last hope, Taylor Odell-Smith lined the ball toward the shortstop only to hit Coker advancing to third to end the game on a runner's interference call.

The Warriors' Caitlin Mohahan (7-6) went the distance, striking out four and walking just two to pick up the win.

East Stroudsburg's Brittany Racek broke game two open with a double. Racek would advance to third on a wild pitch before she was driven home by a Rachel Gieringer single.

The Warriors increased their lead to two in the third after Jamie Mingis led off with a triple then was driven home by the next batter.

Laura Suits came in relief of Monahan, who had pitched nine-straight innings, to face the ninth, first and second batters in the Marauder lineup. Suits retired the first two batters before walking Kachnovitz. Kachnovitz stole second base before Chew hit her second bomb in as many days over the center field fence to knot the score at 2-2.

East Stroudsburg's bats gave Suits a cushion in the fifth inning by scoring two runs on three hits to go ahead, 4-2.

Millersville responded in the bottom of the sixth inning when Heidi Wilson drove a single up the middle to lead off the inning. Wilson went 2-for-3 from the plate in her first conference start.

A sacrifice bunt by Odell-Smith advanced Wilson to second base before Ally Homa reached on walk. Sarah Signore grounded out to the pitcher but advanced each runner a base. Kachnovitz with her fourth hit of the day drove home both base runners to tie the game, 4-4.

The teams exchanged runs in the seventh inning to extend the game an extra inning.

The Warriors found a spark in the eighth inning, hitting two solo shots over the fence to take the 7-5 lead and eventual victory.

The Marauders were unable to find any runs in the bottom half of the inning to give Monahan, who came back in to pitch in the seventh inning, her second win of the day.

Millersville wraps up its four-day, eight-game homestand on Tuesday when the No. 25 Golden Bears of Kutztown come to the Millersville University Softball Field. The doubleheader is slated for 2:30 p.m.