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Box Score 2 Millersville, Pa. - With Saturday's game one between Millersville and Bloomsburg tied at 0-0 in the bottom of the seventh, Marauder freshman
Tyler Orris needed only one pitch to drive in
Jeff Heisey for the game-winning run. Orris' walk-off single coupled with
Chris Murphy's third-straight complete game shutout lifted Millersville to a 1-0 win in the opener. The Marauders then rolled to a four-game series sweep with a 7-3 win in the nightcap.
Before a packed house at Marauder Park, Millersville (18-8, 4-0 PSAC East) delivered its third four-game sweep of Bloomsburg since 2003 and its first 4-0 start to divisional play since 2000. Orris came through in the clutch with his first RBI in seven games, and Murphy was dominate again, stretching his consecutive scoreless innings streak to 21.0. He needs seven more innings to break East Stroudsburg's Jeremy Gigliotti's PSAC record and 6.1 to set the Millersville record held by
Brooks Rothschild.
Orris' single was one of only six Millersville hits in the opener. Casey Cooperman (0-2) struck out six Marauders and walked only one in a superb effort. Murphy surrendered only two hits and two walks while striking out five. He has allowed only six hits in his last 21 innings.
Heisey jump-started Millersville's seventh inning rally with a lead-off single to left. A Cooperman balk moved Heisey into scoring position, and
Mark Stuckey sacrificed Heisey to third. Cooperman intentionally walked
Tyler McDonald and then recorded a strikeout for the first out of the inning. Orris slapped Cooperman's first offering between first and second base, allowing Heisey to score easily from third.
The Marauders wasted no time putting runs on the board in game two.
Evan King led off with a single, and
Jeremy Musser doubled home King for the first of his three hits and first of his two RBIs. Heisey singled in a run, and Stuckey doubled in Heisey to put the Marauders on top, 3-0.
Bloomsburg's Nick Eversole hit a solo home run to lead off the top of the second, but Marauder starter
Jim McDade (2-3) was unwavering over the next four innings. His offense plated two more runs in the second and another pair in the fourth on a two-run single from
Zach Stone.
Bloomsburg tagged McDade for a couple of runs in the sixth, but McDade limited the damage before handing the ball to relievers
Pat Kelley and
Adam Zipko, who worked through the seventh.
McDade surrendered three runs on five hits and struck out two with no walks. Bloomsburg starter Eric Geedey (3-3) was knocked out in the second inning.
Stone finished game two with three RBIs. Musser went 3-for-4, and King went 2-for-2 with three runs scored. Heisey pushed his hitting streak to six.
Millersville steps out of PSAC East play on Tuesday for a doubleheader at Lincoln. It returns to divisional action on Friday at Marauder Park against Shippensburg. First pitch is slated for 1 p.m.