Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Murfreesboro, N.C. – The Marauders were looking to rebound from the team's first pair of back-to-back losses on the season and did so in a big way Friday afternoon, dumping Chowan 11-1 in the first game and hanging on for a 5-4 decision on the back end of the day's doubleheader to improve its record to 14-4 on the season.
 
Millersville unleashed an offensive onslaught in game one that saw the team score 11 runs on 11 hits. Those 11 runs gave starter Sarah Bertoni her second-most runs of support so far this season, as the sophomore rebounded nicely from a three-plus inning start during which she gave up 10 runs (four earned). The Nanticoke native pitched a complete game, throwing all five innings while allowing just one unearned run on three hits with six strikeouts.
 
The road team Friday, Millersville grabbed a 2-0 lead in the first inning on a throwing miscue that allowed Danielle DiFilippo and Ginely Ortiz-Marrero to score. Jamie Motsko gave the team a three-run lead on the next at-bat, singling in Gabbie Berry, who had reached on the throwing error.
 
After the Hawks rallied for a run in the bottom of the first, cutting the deficit to 3-1, the Marauders struck again in the third for three more runs. Ashley Cantiello doubled down the right field line, knocking in Motsko and Berry. Two batters later, Jordan Sheffield singled toward the third base side, allowing Cantiello to score.
 
The Marauders closed out the scoring by hanging another run on the board in the fourth and four more in the fifth. Offensively Berry, Motsko, Cantiello and Sheffield all led the charge with two hits each. Cantiello added a team-best three RBI and Berry scored a team-high three runs.
 
After game one's convincing victory, the Marauders gutted out a win in the nightcap. After opening the game with a 2-0 lead in the first inning on a Cara Nance single that scored Berry and a Cantiello single that brought home Motsko, the Hawks staged a rally against game two starter Brianna Andraos, putting a run on the board in the bottom of the third to pull within 2-1.
 
Millersville tallied the game's next run in the top of the fifth to make the score 3-1 when Andraos helped her cause by doubling down the left field line to score Berry from second. But Andraos, who has been spectacular so far in her rookie campaign, surrendered the lead when Chowan struck for three runs in the bottom of the fifth, giving the Hawks a 4-3 advantage and setting the stage for the Marauder comeback.
 
The away team answered with a run in the top of the sixth inning to knot the game up again at four when Ortiz-Marrero hit a sacrifice fly to center that scored Sheffield. After Andraos shut down the side in the bottom half of the inning, the bats broke through again for Millersville, with Cantiello delivering another RBI single to left center that brought home Nance for the winning run.
 
Cantiello played the hero in the second game and went a combined 5-for-9 on the day with five RBI. The sophomore has been on fire of late, hitting safely in six of her last eight games. In each of those six games, she has had multiple hits. Her 15 RBI this season lead the team and have already eclipsed her 2012 total of just 13. The three RBI in game two were a career best for runs driven in in a game.
 
The schedule doesn't do Millersville any favors in the team's travels home from North Carolina. The Marauders get back in action Sunday at home at the Millersville Softball Field when they take on Holy Family for a two-game set beginning at 1 p.m. Millersville is 7-1 all-time against the Tigers and has won the past seven meetings against Holy Family.