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Box Score 2 Millersville, Pa. - Sunday's pair of games between Millersville and Holy Family produced a lot of goose eggs on the scoreboards. The teams traded victories, with the Marauders getting the first game, 1-0, before dropping the second game by a slim 3-2 margin.
In game one, sophomore pitcher
Sarah Bertoni fired her eighth complete game and fourth shutout of the season, going the distance while allowing six hits and striking out six. Bertoni kept the Marauders in a scoreless deadlock all game long, fighting out of jams in the top of the fourth, fifth and sixth innings, respectively. In each of those three innings, Bertoni stranded at least two Tiger players on base to ended the inning, and retired the final batter of the fifth with the bases loaded.
Millersville's offense, meanwhile, managed just four hits through the first six innings off of game one starter Rachael Alligood. Because Bertoni had been so good all game long, however, the Marauders found themselves with a chance to end the game in the bottom of the seventh with the score tied at 0-0. After an
Ashley Cantiello bloop single to lead off the inning, head coach
Kathy Cummings went to the bench, pinch-running for Cantiello with
Brianna Andraos.
The move paid off, as Andraos moved up to second on a passed ball and scored two batters later.
Stephanie Kulp hit a dribbler toward the hole between third and short, just far enough that Andraos beat the late throw home for the winning run, moving the Marauders to 15-4 on the year.
After crossing the plate for the winning run in the first game, the Tigers took all their frustrations out on Andraos from the outset of game two. Holy Family got to the freshman for two runs in the first inning, then scored another in the third to knock the rookie from the game after three innings, during which she surrendered three earned runs on five hits and two walks without striking out a batter.
On the other side of the coin, Tiger hurler Sarah Chilutti stifled the Millersville offense for the second game in a row. Chilutti took a no-hitter into the sixth inning against the Marauders. Her no-hit bid was broken up with two outs in the second-to-last inning when
Jamie Motsko hit a hot shot off the third baseman's glove for an infield single.
The Marauders, despite being down at the plate all game long, would not go quietly. The team used a little more of that seventh inning magic that it had in game one. With two runners on base after a Cantiello walk and a pinch-hit single by Bertoni,
Jordan Sheffield smacked a triple into the right-centerfield gap, plating both
Yisleidy Minaya-Vargas (who was running for Cantiello) and Bertoni. That magic would run out after Sheffield's hit, as Chilutti settled down and retired the next two Marauders in order with the tying run at third to end the game and Millersville's hopes of a sweep.
The game two loss drops the Marauders to 15-5 on the year. The team gets back in action Tuesday at Lincoln (Pa.) with a 2:30 p.m. start time. Millersville has never lost in six all-time meetings with the Lions.