Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Bowie, Md. – Last year, the softball team didn't get its third win of the year until the 16^th game of the season. It didn't take nearly that long for this year's edition of the Marauders to reach that total, claiming wins two and three on the year in just their third and fourth games, respectively, as Millersville swept Bowie State by scores of 9-0 and 11-3 Monday afternoon.
 
The pair of wins takes the Marauders to 3-1 on the young season and drops the Bulldogs to 0-8. The victories also run Millersville's early-season win streak to three games in a row after dropping the first outing against Glenville State. Gabbie Berry paced the offense on Monday with four hits, two in each game, to give her three straight multi-hit games.
 
Freshman pitcher Brianna Andraos twirled a six-hit complete game shutout in game one of the double dip, striking out six batters and walking one. The offense gave the rookie hurler early run support, scoring a pair of runs in the top of the first on a pair of pitching miscues, including a passed ball that scored Ginely Ortiz-Marrero and a wild pitch that brought home Jamie Motsko.
 
After Andraos allowed a hit to the first collegiate batter she faced, the freshman settled in, retiring the rest of the side in order. Millersville's offense gave her even more breathing room in the top of the second, hanging five runs on the board on the strength of five hits. Ortiz-Marrero singled through the left side to score Jordan Sheffield. A batter later and with the bases jammed full of Marauders, Berry punched one through the hole between third and short to bring home Ortiz-Marrero and Brittany Shoemaker.
 
Ashley Cantiello capped the five-run second with a single up the middle to score Andraos, who helped herself by going 1-for-3. An inning later, Berry crushed a one-out double to left center, scoring Yisleidy Minaya-Vargas and giving Berry her third RBI of the ballgame. That was all the run support Andraos needed, as she cruised the rest of the way, allowing four hits over her final three innings of work to complete the shutout.
 
Even a gap in between games was not enough to cool off the Marauder offense in the second game of the twin bill. Millersville came out slugging, hanging seven first-inning runs on the board in game two. Berry got the game started with a single toward third base that scored Shoemaker. Two batters later, Moira Golden dropped a two-run single into center to swell the lead to 3-0. After Motsko scored on a wild pitch, Cara Nance, playing against her old team, powered a double to left to score Golden. The Marauders put two more runs on the board before the Bulldogs could record the final out of the inning.
 
Ashley Cantiello took to the circle in the back end of the doubleheader and allowed three runs over three innings of work. She allowed a run in the bottom of the first and two in the bottom of the third, but the offense gave her enough run support to pick up her first victory of the year. That same offense also waited until the top of the sixth to strike again, hanging three runs on the board on four hits, punctuated by Stephanie Kulp. Kulp smoked a two-run shot to right center for the first homer of her career.
 
The 3-1 start to the season is Millersville's best since opening the 2008 season with six consecutive tallies in the “W” column. The team now gets over a week off until its next action. The Marauders take on the Lightning at Goldey-Beacom next Tuesday, Mar. 12. First pitch of that doubleheader is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. The team's home-opener is the next day, a two-game set with Chestnut Hill also beginning at 2:30 p.m.