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Marauders, Golden Rams Split on Season's Final Day

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Millersville, Pa. – In the team's final doubleheader of the regular season, the Marauder softball team split with West Chester, notching its 30th win of the year in the final game behind a career pitching performance from freshman Amanda Wink. That win total sets a new record for wins in a regular season by the Marauders.
 
After dropping the first game of the day's action, Wink lifted Millersville to its record-breaking win with a four-hit shutout of the Golden Rams as she finished her rookie year with a 2-3 record and a 2.56 ERA. Wink's gem saw her allow just four hits and a walk while fanning five batters. It was the first complete game shutout of her career.
 
As if shutting down the West Chester batters wasn't enough, Wink also delivered the only run of the game for the Marauders in the second inning. Ginely Ortiz-Marrero crossed the plate on a single back through the box off the bat of Wink. Ortiz-Marrero was running in place of Ashley Cantiello who had singled to lead off the inning.
 
The Millersville offense managed six hits, two of which came off the bat of Jordan Sheffield. With Wink's shutout the Marauders finished the season tied for the PSAC lead in blankings by a pitching staff with 16. The team's collective ERA on the year was 1.91, third-best in the conference and Millersville hurlers threw the most innings in the PSAC at 326.2. The seven homers the Marauders allowed were the second-least by a PSAC staff and the lowest by a PSAC East team.
 
For the season, the team's offense managed 202 runs, fifth-best in the PSAC. The 62 doubles the Marauders collected were tied for third in the PSAC. The offensive attack for Millersville churned out a .291 average, which ranked eighth among all PSAC teams and the 1,294 at-bats were second only to West Chester.
 
Millersville dropped the day's first game, 7-1. In her final start of a superb sophomore regular season, Sarah Bertoni took the loss as the Golden Rams got to the Marauders' No. 1 pitcher. After a scoreless first three innings between the teams, the Nanticoke native surrendered seven runs (four earned) over the final four innings. West Chester's offense knocked her out of the game with one out in the seventh. It was just the third time in her 23 starts during the season that she did not throw a complete game.
 
The Marauders got their only run of the game in the sixth on Jamie Motsko's RBI single. Sheffield came around to score on the play to make the score 4-1. That inning proved to be Millersville's only threatening inning, as the offense managed three hits, one each from Sheffield, DiFilippo and Motsko in that order. But the Marauders left two runners on base when Cantiello grounded out to first to end the inning. From there, the Golden Rams tacked on three more runs to put the game away.
 
The loss and win end the Marauder season at 30-20 and 6-10 in the PSAC East. It is the second consecutive season that Millersville finished 6-10 in divisional play, but the .600 winning percentage is the team's best in program history, topping the 30-21 record in 2006. The Marauders still have a chance at the postseason if they can make the top eight teams in the NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional.
 
If the team does not qualify for the regional tournament, Millersville has a bright future; none of the team's 16 players on this year's roster were seniors. Looking ahead to the 2014 season, the team should have continuity in bringing back most, if not all of the roster, a definite plus for a program moving in the right direction.
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