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Chas McCormick

Baseball

Marauder Pitchers Stymie Bald Eagles for Two Wins

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Millersville, Pa. - Millersville pitchers surrendered just one unearned run in 14 innings for a doubleheader sweep of Lock Haven Monday afternoon at Cooper Park. Millersville took the opener 7-1 behind Chris Murphy's complete game, and the Marauders won the nightcap by a 5-0 score with Brandon Miller's five strong innings.

Millersville (18-7, 5-1 PSaC East) has now won seven of its last eight and 10 of its last 12. Murphy's win the opener boosted his season record to 6-1 and his complete game total to three. Miller (2-2) took a shutout into the sixth and let Matt Binder and Sean Stephenson close the door for the victory.

Redshirt freshman Dan Neff went 2-for-3 with a stolen base in both games and also drove in two runs and scored two. Senior Mark Stuckey totaled three hits in the twinbill.

The Marauders jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the second inning of the opener following a double from Neff and a RBI single from Kurt Seiders. Lock Haven took advantage of a Millersville error in the third to get one run back, but the Marauders immediately answered in the bottom of the inning with four runs on four hits, a walk, a sacrifice bunt and a sacrifice fly. Stuckey added an insurance run in the sixth with a RBI double.

The 7-1 lead was plenty for Murphy, who scattered seven hits over seven innings. He used a 6-4-3 double play to end the fourth, sixth and seventh innings. Murphy struck out five and walked just one. Madison Neddo (1-3) took the loss for Lock Haven after allowing six runs in three innings.

The Marauders jumped out to an early lead again in the nightcap with Tyler Orris starting the first with a single and his PSAC-leading 25th steal of the season. Dan Johnson drove him home with a single to right. Stuckey doubled in a run, and Chas McCormick singled home Stuckey to give the Marauders a 3-0 lead in the second.

Lock Haven put two runners in scoring position against Miller in the second, but he pitched into back-to-back pop outs to end the threat. The Bald Eagles did the same in the fifth, but Miller again doused the flames with a three-pitch strikeout and a routine groundout to McDonald at third base.

Miller allowed four hits and three walks while registering four strikeouts. After surrendering a leadoff double to start the sixth, Coach Jon Shehan called on Binder to end the inning. Stephenson came on in the seventh and after a leadoff single, he retired the side.

Millersville finished game two with 11 hits. McCormick, McDonald and Neff each tallied two. McDonald drove in a pair of runs.

The Marauders travel to Kutztown on Tuesday for a PSAC East doubleheader, starting at 1 p.m.


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