Game 1 | Game 2
 
West Chester, Pa. – Coming into its first PSAC East games of the season against West Chester, Millersville was on a roll, winning four straight. The team fell in the first game, but bounced back behind a one-hit pitching performance to win the second game and split the doubleheader.
 
In game one, the Rams ended the Marauders' season-high, four-game winning streak, edging Millersville by a 2-1 margin. Starting pitcher Alicia Hughes was in the circle and at the center of all the action.
 
The game was scoreless until the fifth inning when Hughes gave herself a lead. Leading off the inning, the junior belted a solo shot over the right-center field wall to break the 0-0 tie and give the Marauders a 1-0 lead. Unfortunately for Millersville, Hughes' homer was only one of two hits the team would muster in the game. The other came courtesy of Hughes' battery mate, freshman catcher Gabbie Berry.
 
In the half-inning after Hughes gave Millersville the lead, the Quakertown product surrendered two runs to the Rams. It was all West Chester starter Devon Utterback would need, as she pitched two more hitless innings to push the Rams to the win.
 
Hughes' fifth inning was the only blemish on her performance. She pitched a complete game (her ninth of the season), allowing just four hits and walking one while striking out five. The loss drops her season record to 2-6.
 
Millersville bounced back in the back end of the twinbill, defeating the Rams 3-0 behind another strong pitching performance from Sarah Bertoni, improving the team to 8-14 overall and 1-1 in PSAC East play. The freshman won her third straight start by one-hitting West Chester just three days after throwing the first no-hitter on record in the history of the program.
 
Bertoni seems to have turned a corner in her last three starts, allowing just six total hits and one run over that span, lowering her ERA by a full run per game in that span and taking her down to 4.41 for the season.
 
Similar to fellow pitcher Hughes in the first game, Bertoni was aided by her battery mate, as Berry came through with her third home run of the week, going 2-for-2 with two RBI and two runs scored. Berry kicked off the scoring in the first inning, scoring Ally Homa on a double and coming in to score on a sacrifice groundout.
 
The catcher gave Millersville a 3-0 lead and finished the game's scoring in the third inning, unloading a solo shot down the left field line. That was the scoring her pitcher would need as Bertoni cruised through the rest of her outing, allowing the only Ram hit in the fifth inning, breaking up her bid for a second no-hitter.
 
The Marauders are at the tail-end of a brutal eight-games-in-five-days stretch during which the team has posted a 5-1 record. Millersville has a doubleheader at East Stroudsburg tomorrow before getting four days off. Game one's first pitch against the Warriors is slated for 1 p.m.