Game One Box Score | Game Two Box Score
 
Clermont, FL – Against American International Wednesday, Millersville was unable to come away with a win in two close games that both came down to the wire in Clermont. The Marauders have had trouble the Yellow Jackets in recent history, losing last year in the final at-bat as well.
 
In the first game of the doubleheader, the Marauders lost a heartbreaker, 5-4, that saw the game go to the final at-bat. The Yellow Jackets defeated the Marauders in the bottom half of the seventh inning on a walk-off fielder's choice after Millersville came back to take the lead in the top half of the inning.
 
American International broke through in the first inning against Alicia Hughes who was called for three illegal pitches. After the illegal pitches resulted in two runs for the Yellow Jackets, Stephanie Kulp was called on to replace Hughes and gave Millersville 5.2 solid innings, allowing only one more run in the first inning.
 
The Marauders got a run back in the top of the fourth, making the score 3-1. Ally Homa doubled to lead off the inning and scored on an Ashley Cantiello single two batters later. The score remained 3-1 until Millersville exploded for three runs in the top half of the seventh.
 
The team loaded the bases after Gabbie Berry singled to lead off the inning. Two batters later, Sarah Bertoni singled, pinch-hitting for Kulp. Gab Ceritano kept the rally going with a walk. With the lineup turned over and Allison Chew batting, Berry and Bertoni scored on a wild pitch from Yellow Jacket starter Kristen Dolan to tie the game at three. The go-ahead run was scored with a sacrifice groundout by Chew.
 
Bertoni could not make the lead hold up, taking the mound for Kulp in the bottom of the inning. She allowed two runs (one earned) in the inning. The game was tied after a Millersville error, an American International single and two illegal pitches by Bertoni, respectively. The Yellow Jackets claimed the victory on a fielder's choice to score the winning run.
 
Game two was as tough of a loss as the first game, as Millersville came out on the wrong end of a 5-3, eight inning loss. It was Millersville's first extra-inning game of the season. Chew and Berry paced the Millersville offense with two hits apiece.
 
Similar to the first game, the Yellow Jackets struck first, putting a run on the board in the top of the first inning and putting two more runs up in the top of the third, staking starter Elizabeth Habib to the same 3-0 Dolan was given in game one.
 
The Marauders, who had their rally caps on all day, worked their way back into the game, plating two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning. With one out, Emily Sneeringer and Cantiello produced back-to-back singles. Millersville was helped to a run by a Yellow Jacket error, allowing Sneeringer to cross the plate. Berry knocked in the second run with a single, scoring Cantiello and making the score 3-2.
 
Millersville would tie the score at three in the sixth and had the opportunity to take the lead with a two-out rally that ended with three runners stranded on base. Danielle DiFilippo got the rally started with a single. Berry followed with her second hit of the game.
 
Alexa Casner, who was pinch-hitting for Alexandra Hoops, came through with a run-scoring single. That was all the Marauders would get in the inning, as Jamie Motsko flew out to right to end the threat.
 
The game remained tied until the top of the eighth inning, when the Yellow Jackets took the lead thanks to a Millersville fielding error, scoring two runs. The Marauders could not mount another rally in the bottom of the inning, ending the game.
 
The losses drop the Marauders to 1-11 on the season, with four games left to play in their Florida trip. Tomorrow's slate of games has Millersville playing Alderson-Broaddus at 2:30 p.m. and Bentley at 7 p.m.