Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Thomasville, N.C. - The Marauders brought home 10 runs on 14 hits in a decisive 10-0 game-one win over #13 Franklin Pierce but fell in the second game by a score of 6-4.

In the first contest, Millersville (7-3) turned to its ace, Chris Murphy (3-1), who delivered a workmanlike performance. The junior hurler tossed a complete-game shutout while striking out ten batters and walking only one. The Marauders led 2-0 in game two but the Ravens (5-2) scored six runs in the middle innings en route to a 6-4 victory.

GAME ONE RECAP

Dan Johnson's 3-for-4, five-RBI day began with an RBI double down the left field line in the bottom of the first that scored Kurt Seiders. In the fifth frame, Johnson stepped back into the box and belted a two-run homerun to left field, his first bomb of the season. Millersville scored another run in the sixth on a wild pitch and Johnson wasn't quite done yet. In that same inning, the Macungie, Pa. native cracked a single right back up the middle that brought in both Zach Stone and Chas McCormick and broke it open in favor of the Marauders, 6-0.

Mark Stuckey kept the bats hot in the seventh with a two-run bomb to left center, his first round-tripper of the season. Stone tacked on a sacrifice fly in that same inning and in the next frame, Tyler Orris made it 10-0 in favor of the Black and Gold with an RBI single that pushed Dan Stoltzfus across the plate.

Stone turned in a 4-of-4 game at the plate with two runs scored, an RBI and a walk while the top four hitters in Millersville's lineup were a combined 8-for-15 at the plate. Orris had a big day in the eight-hole and was a perfect 3-of-3 at the dish with two runs, two walks and an RBI. In six games as the leadoff hitter this season, Orris hit just .087 with two hits in 23 at-bats. Since moving to the eight spot in the lineup, the shortstop is 7-for-9 at the plate with five runs, three doubles, three walks, and an RBI. 

GAME TWO RECAP

Johnson got the party started again in the first inning of game two with an RBI single to left that scored McCormick. McCormick put the Marauders up 2-0 in the top of the fourth with a bases loaded walk to score Dan Stoltzfus. 

Brandon Miller got the start in the second game and didn't give up a run through his first three and a third innings. However, in the fourth, Franklin Pierce drew a walk, reached on an error and singled through the left side to load the bases up. A two-run double from the Ravens' Marty Dunlap tied things up at 2-2. One batter later, a hit-by-pitch with the bases loaded put Franklin Pierce up 3-2. The Ravens added a solo homerun the next inning to increase the margin to two.

In the top of the sixth frame, Seiders scored Orris on a double and pulled Millersville within one, 4-3. Franklin Pierce added two runs of insurance in the bottom of the inning with a two-run single to go up 6-3. An RBI single from David Pine made the score 6-4 in favor of the Ravens and that's where it stood until the final pitch. 

Miller (1-2) took the loss after going 3.1 innings and gave up three runs, two earned, while striking out two batters and walking one.

The Marauders have two more against Franklin Pierce slated for Sunday with first pitch in game one set for 9 a.m.