Millersville, Pa. - The No. 1-ranked Millersville baseball team didn't want there to be any drama for the PSAC Eastern Division series of the season, so the Marauders swept visiting Shippensburg Sunday by scores of 2-0 and 16-2 to clinch its fourth consecutive PSAC East title with four games left on the slate. Jim McDade tossed a complete game shutout in the opener and was followed by six strong innings from Reid Anderson.

Millersville is the first PSAC team to win four consecutive division titles since Mansfield from 1992-96. The Marauders improved to 39-4 overall and 21-3 in PSAC East play, extending its home winning streak to 24. Shippensburg managed just two runs--both scored in extra innings--in the opening doubleheader Friday, and McDade and Anderson kept the Raiders off the board for the first 11 innings of Saturday's twinbill.

McDade complete game was his third in four starts and has pitched two shutouts in his last three. He matched a season-high with eight strikeouts. Millersville's only two runs in game one came in the fourth. Dan Neff doubled to right to start and advanced to third on a Chas McCormick single. Dan Stoltzfus singled to score Neff, and McCormick later scored on a passed ball. 

That was all the scoring Millersville needed. Shippensburg threatened in the seventh when Austin Allison reached on a fielding error. McDade, however, struck out Jake Kennedy and Tyler Orris ranged behind the second base bag to field a Cash Gladfelter grounder and fired to first for the final out.

Game two was screless entering the bottom of the fourth and millersville built a 1-0 lead when Mitch Stoltzfus singled in Dan Stoltzfus. But with two outs, Shippensburg committed a costly fielding error on a Tyler Orris fly ball, which allowed Ben Snyder to score. Jeremy Musser crushed a three-run home run in the very next at bat, making the score 6-0.

M. Stoltzfus hit his team-leading ninth homer to start the fifth. The Marauders totaled eight runs on eight hits and walks in the sixth.

Anderson cruised thrugh the first four innings, striking in five in a row at one point. He gave up a single and home run to start the fifth but fanned two of the next three and worked a shutout sixth.  Anderson has now given up only four hits in each of his last five starts (37 hits over 48 2/3 innings). He has also allowed just four runs in his last 24 innings.

Musser drove in five runs on three hits. M. Stoltzfus also drove in three and scored three times on three hits. D. Stoltzfus went 2-for-4 and drove in the 156th run of his career, bringing him to within two of Zach Stone's Millersville record.

The Marauders step outside conference play on Wednesday to host USciences.