Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Millersville, Pa. – Saturday afternoon at the Millersville Softball Field, runs were hard to come by. Fortunately for the Marauders, they figured out how to score four of the five runs over two games, sweeping Philadelphia by scores of 2-0 and 2-1, respectively.
 
In the first game of the two-game set, Sarah Bertoni put forth another dominant outing, tossing her sixth complete game shutout of the season, allowing seven hits and striking out two. Millersville got on the board in the top of the first inning when Gabbie Berry came up with one of the Marauders' six hits, plating Jordan Sheffield. On the team's next at-bat, Cara Nance hit a sacrifice grounder to score Berry.
 
That was all the scoring either team would get the rest of the way, and after the offense gave the team a lead, it was all Bertoni the rest of the way. The defense did help the Nanticoke native in picking up her PSAC-best sixth shutout, especially in the fourth inning. After allowing a one-out double to Sam Riabko, Bertoni also allowed Emilia Cantrell to single into right. As Riabko rounded third and headed for home, Stephanie Kulp came up firing, gunning down Riabko at the plate to preserve the shutout.
 
But for as much as the defense helped out, Bertoni extinguished the other threat she put herself in on her own. She surrendered a leadoff double to Meg Lewis in the sixth, and Lewis moved over to third on a sacrifice groundout by Riabko, again endangering the clean slate. Bertoni, however, settled down and retired the next two batters with ease, on a strikeout and a fly out, respectively.
 
Her record now improves to 10-3 on the year, and the 10 wins are also a conference best. Her ever-shrinking 0.93 ERA is now the third-best among all PSAC pitchers as well, and tops of any pitcher from the PSAC East. After game one, Millersville's record stood at 18-7, 11 games north of .500 for the fourth time this season. Bad news was ahead, as the Marauders had failed to get to 12 games above the .500 mark in each of the past three tries.
 
For Millersville, however, the fourth time was about to be a charm. In the back end of the doubleheader, the Millersville captured a 2-1 victory in the bottom of the eighth inning on Danielle DiFilippo's game-winning run, as she came home on an error. Jamie Motsko smoked one toward second base that snuck underneath Lewis' glove and through her legs into right field. DiFilippo, who was placed on second to start the inning with the international tiebreaker, and had moved up one base on a sacrifice bunt by Berry, scored easily from third to give the Marauders the win.
 
Getting the start in the circle for the home team in game two was Brianna Andraos, who hadn't picked up a win in either of her past two starts. The last time Andraos got a win was March 22 against Chowan. But the freshman pitcher did everything and more to earn her sixth victory of the season against the Rams Saturday afternoon. The Malvern native pitched the full eight innings, scattering five hits and striking out three while allowing just one unearned run.
 
The Marauders fell behind in the sixth when Philadelphia starting pitcher Kasia Smith singled home Lewis. Lewis reached on an error in the first at-bat of the inning. Andraos helped herself in the bottom half of the sixth inning in a rally to tie the game at one. Two batters after Motsko delivered a one-out single, Andraos dropped in a single to score Motsko from second base. That run set up the dramatic finish in the eighth inning.
 
The game two win improves the team's record to a season-best 12 games above the .500 plateau at 19-7 overall. It is the best start through 26 games in program history, narrowly topping the 18-8 start the 2006 team had to its credit. The Marauders now have a five-day break to enjoy the pair of wins, as the team gets back in action Apr. 4 at Lincoln (Pa.). Millersville has never lost in six meetings with the Lions.