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Millersville, Pa. – With the red-hot Golden Bears coming to town on a 30-game win streak, the Marauders were looking to spoil Kutztown's unbeaten division record, which stood at 10-0. Millersville hung tough but dropped both games to the division leader by scores of 2-1 and 10-3.

A pitcher's duel broke out in game one with both teams' number one starters taking the circle. Kutztown's Samantha Derr outpitched Millersville starter Alicia Hughes, but that does not downplay one of Hughes' best games of the year. The front end of the doubleheader took just one hour and 15 minutes to complete as the starters yielded just six hits and three runs combined.
 
Hughes allowed two earned runs on four hits and two walks in a complete game. Derr permitted just four Millersville batters to reach base on hits from Ally Homa and Gabbie Berry, along with a walk from Berry and Taylor Odell-Smith being hit by a pitch. The Marauders struck first against the nation's fifth-ranked team when Berry singled in Odell-Smith, who was plunked to begin the bottom of the third inning.
 
Kutztown scraped across two runs against Hughes in the next half-inning. That momentum was all Derr needed, as she did not allow another base runner the rest of the way.
 
Millersville battled all day long, and after a close first game, the Marauders picked up the momentum right where the teams left off at the end of game one. They scored three first inning runs, with Homa breaking open the scoring on an Ashley Cantiello RBI single. Two batters later, Jamie Motsko delivered a two-run triple, chasing game two Golden Bear starter Stephanie Pritchard after she recorded just two outs.
 
After Millersville exploded for three runs, Kutztown skipper Judy Lawes had seen enough and lifted Pritchard in favor of Derr. Derr pitched the final 6.1 innings and did not give up another run as the Golden Bears rallied for 10 unanswered. The only three hits the Marauders could manage against Derr came off the bats of Odell-Smith, Stephanie Kulp and Alexandra Hoops.
 
The losses drop the Marauders' record to 16-28 overall and 5-9 in PSAC East play. They bring Millersville into a tie for third with West Chester, two games behind Shippensburg and East Stroudsburg in the loss column. Those two teams square off Friday in a doubleheader that will surely determine a playoff spot. The Marauders take on the Red Raiders on the final day of the season next Saturday.
 
Before Millersville can focus its attention on Shippensburg, the team has to deal with the University of the Sciences Wednesday, the next time the Marauders take the field. Millersville is 7-1 all-time against the Devils. The teams last met in 2010, when the Marauders swept a doubleheader by 4-2 and 7-6 scores.