Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Philadelphia, Pa. – Coming off of six consecutive losses, the Millersville softball team was reeling. But the Marauders had a non-conference opportunity to jump back in the win column against a tough 20-12 University of the Sciences team that had won its past eight games in a row, including a pair against Millersville's PSAC East foe West Chester just a day ago. The Marauders halted the Devils' winning streak, taking game one by a 4-2 margin before sweeping the day's action with a 5-1 win in game two.
 
The road team halted USciences' consecutive victories streak thanks in large part to pitcher Sarah Bertoni, who shut down the Devil bats with her 17^th complete game performance of the year to pick up her 13^th win of the season. The 13 wins ties the Marauder record for victories from one pitcher in a single season with Emily Flieger, who won 13 games of her own during the 2006 season.
 
Millersville took the lead in the top half of the first inning, scoring the team's first run when Jordan Sheffield crossed the plate. Sheffield punched one through the left side to lead off the game. Four batters later, Ashley Cantiello dropped a single into centerfield to bring home the team's first run and give the Marauders a 1-0 lead.
 
Two innings later, the Marauder offense got on the board, again courtesy of a Cantiello at-bat. After back-to-back-to-back singles to load the bases, Cantiello drove a Courtney Spina pitch deep to the left-centerfield gap, allowing Danielle DiFilippo and Gabbie Berry to score. Millersville tacked on another run with Cara Nance up next, making the score 4-0. Nance singled into center, bringing home Jamie Motsko.
 
Bertoni, meanwhile, was on cruise control, yielding just two hits through the first four innings of work. She hit a bit of a rough patch, allowing two Devil runs in the bottom of the fifth to close the gap to 4-2. A clutch play from DiFilippo to gun down a runner at home with one out kept the game at a two-run lead for her pitcher, and Bertoni would not look back. She allowed just one more USciences hit over the final two innings to pick up the win for herself and the Marauders, snapping the team's six-game losing skid.
 
Berry and Cantiello paced the offense in game one with two hits each out of the team's 10 total. Cantiello knocked in three of the team's four runs, bringing her team-leading RBI total to 31 on the year. And the hitting onslaught didn't stop at the end of game one. The Marauders banged out 11 more hits in game two to pick up the win as starter Brianna Andraos tossed a complete game to pick up her ninth win.
 
In game two, it was the home team that put a run on the scoreboard first, as Andraos surrendered a first-inning run on an RBI single. After that run came across, the freshman settled in, limiting the Devils to just five hits and no runs over the final six innings. And from that point, the offense lifted its freshman hurler, scoring at least one run in three consecutive innings.
 
Andraos helped herself by tying the game with a sacrifice groundout that brought home Motsko from third in the fourth. The Marauder offense, which was quiet for the first three innings of the game, put a second run on the board in the inning with Stephanie Kulp's RBI double to right field that allowed Andraos to score. In the fifth, Millersville took advantage of a USciences miscue, scoring two runs on an error at first base.
 
The Marauders tacked on one more run in the sixth with a Sheffield single back through the box that brought home Kulp. Bertoni led the offensive attack in game two, putting forth a 3-for-4 effort. Sheffield, DiFilippo and Motsko all had two-hit games. The two wins improve the team's record to 25-15 so far this season.
 
Millersville is in the midst of a tough stretch during which the team plays eight games in a row on the road. Up next for the Marauders is a crucial PSAC East date with divisional foe Kutztown on Friday. Two weeks ago, the teams split a doubleheader with the Golden Bears taking game one before the Marauders responded with a game two win of 8-7. Friday's pair of games begin at 2:30 p.m.