Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Shippensburg, Pa. – Millersville softball fell to No. 16 Shippensburg 6-3 in game one despite a spirited comeback effort and the Raiders took game two 4-3 even though the Marauders led 3-2 at one point.
 
Ship (21-5, 7-3 PSAC East) has won 14 of its last 17 and has lost back-to-back games only once this season while Millersville (15-15, 5-7 PSAC East) has dropped seven of 10 in PSAC East play since opening the conference slate 2-0.
 
GAME ONE RECAP
Shippensburg took the initiative in game one with a run in the first and five more in the second inning.
 
Brianna Andraos (10-8) left after just an inning and two thirds of work and gave way to Amanda Wink who came in and pitched very well in relief. Wink didn't allow a run on four hits with two strikeouts and one walk over 4.1 innings.
 
In the top of the third, Ashley Cantiello led off with a walk and Yisleidy Minaya-Vargas pinch ran for her. Stephanie Kulp was up next and brought in Minaya-Vargas with a base-knock down the left-field line to give the Marauders their first run of the game.
 
Maria Spinosa pushed across Jordan Sheffield with an RBI double in the fourth and Gabbie Berry singled home Kulp in the fifth to make it 6-3 but that is where the score would end up.
 
Andraos gave up six runs, five earned, on four hits while walking five batters and punching out one. Since opening the season 9-3, the Malvern, Pa. native has been on the short end in five of her last six starts.
 
Heather Lutz was the only Marauder who had multiple hits with two in her three at-bats.
 
GAME TWO RECAP
In the top of the first of the second contest, Sheffield started things off with a single to center field. After she moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Danielle DiFilippo, Berry reached on a fielding error by the shortstop and Sheffield came in to score.
 
The Raiders brought home a run in both the second and third innings to take a 2-1 lead but Millersville wasn't done yet.
 
In the top of the fifth with one out, Sheffield reached on a fielding error by the center fielder and moved to second because of it. DiFilippo then drilled her first-career home run, a two-run shot over the fence in left-center field that put the Marauders up 3-2.
 
The first batter for Ship in the sixth reached on a single but was caught stealing second by Berry. However, the next two runners singled and after a groundout, there were runners on second and third with two outs. Shippensburg's next batter proceeded to hit a two-run triple into right-center field and the Raiders were up 4-3 as the final score indicated. Prior to that triple, Shippensburg had stranded nine baserunners and Andraos had worked out of two bases-loaded jams, but it caught up to the sophomore hurler.
 
Andraos took the loss after throwing six innings and gave up four earned runs on nine hits with four walks and one strikeout. At the plate, Millersville had just three hits, one from each of the top three hitters in the order.
 
The Marauders return home to face Bloomsburg on Tuesday with a doubleheader set to begin at 2:30 p.m.