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NCAA DIVISION II CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT
	Millersville Marauders 2016 Record: 52-5 Coach: Jon Shehan, 9th season Roster | Schedule | Statistics
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REPRESENTING THE PSAC
•    Millersville is off to a 2-0 start to the NCAA Division II Championship and is entering uncharted waters. It is the first time in three trips that Millersville has won two games in the tournament. Teams from the PSAC started playing in the NCAA Tournament in 1973, and since then, only four teams from the league have won their first two games of the championship tournament. The 1989 Slippery Rock club was the first to do so and finished 2-2. The 1992 Mansfield club finished as the national runner-up and West Chester won the national title with a 4-0 record in 2012.

ON AND OFF THE BASES
•    Millersville's pitching staff did not allow an earned run in the first 18 innings of the NCAA Championship Tournament and owns a 1.20 ERA in five NCAA Tournament games.  In those same five games, the Marauder pitchers have issued just six walks while striking out 36. Marauder starting pitchers are throwing strikes on 69 percent of their pitches. On the flip side, the Marauder offense has drawn 22 walks and has been hit by seven pitches for a .374 on base percentage. The Marauders have also swiped 17 bases in 19 attempts in the five NCAA postseason games. The opposition has successfully swiped just one base in four tries.
•    In five NCAA playoff games, Millersville's starting pitchers have allowed just four earned runs, 29 hits and four walks in 39 2/3 innings.

ON THE BOARD FIRST
•    First inning scoring has been key to Millersville's success. The Marauders have outscored opponents 60-19 in the first inning of games this season, averaging more than a run per game in the inning. The Marauders have scored in the first inning 25 times this season, going 24-1 in those games.

IMPACT ROOKIES
•    Freshman Cordell Shannon became the first-ever Marauder pitcher to win the PSAC East Freshman of the Year Award and also set a school record for wins by a freshman. Reliever Mike Mock leads the team with four saves. Shannon, the projected starter for Thursday, will follow in the footsteps of Tim Mayza as Marauder freshman to start a game at the NCAA Championship. Mayza went on to be drafted in the 12th round of the 2013 MLB Draft by the Toronto Blue Jays. Shannon has made two postseason starts, going 1-0 with 10 innings pitched. He received a no decision after pitching four innings against East Stroudsburg in the PSAC Tournament and picked up a win against Mercyhurst in the NCAA Atlantic Regional, allowing one run on five hits while striking out four over six innings. Shannon's father, Bobby, was drafted out of Shippensburg High School by the Kansas City Royals in 1995. he also played for the Little League World Series title in 1990.

STARTS AT THE TOP
•    Tyler Orris, Millersville's career leader in hits, runs and stolen bases and veteran of 219 games (second among active Division II players), is the spark plug of the Marauder offense. When he scores at least one run, the Marauders are 34-0. Four of the team's losses have come when Orris does not score a run. The Marauders are also 23-1 when Orris steals at least one base. Orris opened the season by reaching base in the first 45 games and has reached base in all but one game this season. He is 49-for-102 (.480) as the leadoff hitter in an inning this season.
• Chas McCormick, who hit in the No. 3 spot for the majority of the season, moved into the No. 2 spot and the team has since gone 4-0. McCormick has reached base in 25 oonsecutive games. He is hitting an incredible .528 (47-for-89) since April 10. He has a .606 on base percentage in that stretch and has stolen 21 bases and driven in 23 runs.

MARAUDER CONSISTENCY
•    Millersville set a program and PSAC record with 52 wins in 2016, but the Marauders have been as consistent as any program since 2011. The Marauders qualified for a fourth consecutive regional tournament (fifth in the last six years) and was the No. 1 seed four times since 2011. They won a fourth consecutive PSAC Eastern Division title in 2016--a feat no accomplished since Mansfield won five in a row from 1992-96. Millersville has won at least 39 games in five of the last six seasons.

SHEHAN TO THE TOP
•    All of the Marauder accomplishments listed since 2011 have happened under the watch of head coach Jon Shehan. Shehan took over a Marauder program in 2008 that was coming off of a 9-37 record and hadn't had a winning record in seven seasons. In his first season of 2008, Shehan's Marauders won the PSAC East title--the first of six in nine seasons. Shehan has since compiled 314 wins, moving him to the top of the all-time wins list at Millersville. His .663 winning percentage is also just percentage points shy of Millersville Hall of Famer Gene Wise's record. Since 2013, Shehan's Marauders have gone 175-50 (.778).

THE BIG 5-0
•    Millersville hit the 50-win milestone for the first time in program history and was one of just two programs in the country to do so in 2016. The Marauders' .912 winning percentage ranks first not only in Division II, but in all of the NCAA regardless of Division. The 50 wins also gave Millersville a PSAC record for wins in a season, passing the 2007 Kutztown club, which totaled 49. The last Division II team to win 50 games and win the national championship was West Florida (52-9) in 2011. The all-time Division II record for winning percentage was set at .939 by the 46-3 Savannah State team in 2000.

RUN DIFFERENTIAL
•    Millersville led the PSAC with 501 runs scored, ranking fourth all-time and just 16 shy of the conference record. The previous school record was 424 (2000). At the same time, the Marauders allowed just 178 runs, ranking second in the PSAC. The Marauders' plus-323 run differential (plus 5.7 per game) led the PSAC. Millersville also averaged more than a run per game in the first, third, fourth, and sixth innings.

NO PLACE LIKE HOME
•    Millersville went 20-0 at Cooper Park in 2016 and was the only team in Division II to go unbeaten at home. Millersville's home winning streak of 27 games began in 2015. The Marauders hit .388 at The Coop while holding opponents to a .204 average. They outscored opponents 166-37 in those 20 games.

CATCHING HISTORY
•    Mitch Stoltzfus is the first Marauder ever to win an ABCA/Rawlings National Gold Glove award and the first Marauder catcher to score All-America honors. The junior is one of only three Marauder catchers since 2002 to earn All-PSAC East honors. He became the first to pick up a postseason award since now-Millersville University Director of Athletics Miles Gallagher in 2010, and the first to earn first team honors since Jon Shehan in 2004.

DELIVERING IN THE CLUTCH
•    Dan Stoltzfus is the greatest run producer in Millersville history, setting the school record with now 179 RBIs. Stoltzfus has 152 of those RBIs over the last two seasons, spanning 109 games played. He ranks fourth among active Division II players in career RBIs. In nine postseason games this season, Stoltzfus has driven in 18 runs.
•    Stoltzfus is hitting a remarkable .495 with runners in scoring position and has knocked in 22-of-31 runners from third base with less than two outs. Nearly half--31--of his 74 RBIs have come with two outs in the inning.

COUSINS OF DESTRUCTION
•    Dan and Mitch Stoltzfus are first cousins and attended Pequea Valley High School together. Not surprisingly, they helped the program to a Lancaster-Lebanon League Championship. The cousins were both All-Atlantic Region First Team selections in 2016 and received All-America status (Dan honorable mention, Mitch on the second team). The duo has combined to hit .417 with 16 homers, 129 RBIs and 41 doubles. Mitch was the first of the two to pass the school's single season hits record, but Dan has since caught up and holds an 90 to 87 edge entering the tournament. Incredibly, both players have the exact same OPS of 1.096.

THE WINNING STREAK
•    After a loss to Winston-Salem State on Feb. 6, Millersville went on a record-setting run of 22 consecutive wins. The streak did not end until March 26. The streak set a PSAC record for consecutive victories. The only other PSAC team to win more than 20 games was West Chester in 2012, which went on to win the national championship.

THE SUMMERFIELD STORY
•    David Summerfield was one of the heroes of the 2015 PSAC Championship. He was named the tournament MVP after going 10-for-19 with four multi-hit games, eight runs scored and six RBIs. But just a week later, the nation's No. 2 hitter (.452 average) suffered essentially a season-ending knee injury.  Just eight months later, Summerfield returned to the starting lineup on opening day of 2016. He struggled early and after the first 13 games he was hitting just .216. Summerfield then ripped off an eight-game hitting streak. Summerfield has upped his average to .354 and is hitting .420 since March 12--a span of 33 games played. He is hitting .361 in the postseason.

ORRIS TOPS THE CHARTS
•    Orris ranks second among active DII players in games played (221), eighth in hits (274), seventh in runs scored (198), and fourth in stolen bases (101). Orris owns Millersville records in six categories and recently set a PSAC record for career assists with 654 (career fielding percentage of .965). He ranks second in PSAC history in career steals and ranks in the top six in hits and runs. He is just the second player in league history to total more than 100 steals in a career.

MILLER TIME
•    Brandon Miller was a 12-game winner and All-Atlantic Region selection in 2015 but really burst onto the scene with an All-Star performance and team MVP selection in the Cape Cod League last summer. Miller was the only Division II player named to the league's season-end all-star team. He went 4-0 with a 1.50 ERA for the Chatham Anglers.
•    He picked up right where he left off and was named Atlantic Region Pitcher of the Year by the NCBWA and D2CCA after leading Division II in WHIP (0.70) and setting a Millersville single season record with 100 strikeouts. Miller, just a junior, is already tied for second in career wins at Millersville, totaling a 27-7 career record with 223 strikeouts in 229 innings.
•    A Brett Tomko Award finalist, Miller ranked sixth in DII in ERA, third in strikeout to walk ratio and 11th in walks per nine.

McCORMICK MAKING HISTORY
•    McCormick is the only Marauder ever to be an All-PSAC East selection in each of his first three seasons. He is a two-time first team pick. He is also a two-time All-Atlantic Region selection. McCormick was recently named ABCA All-America Third Team, making him the first Marauder outfielder named All-America since Mike VanGavree scored third team honors in 1990.

ALL IN THE FAMILY
•    Chas McCormick isn't the first McCormick to play in the NCAA Division II Championship for the Marauders. His older brother, Ryan, was the starting second baseman on and leadoff hitter for the 2011 club that won the Atlantic Regional. Chas has three brothers and all three were/are collegiate baseball players. Along with Ryan, Sean played shortstop at Kutztown, and Chas' twin brother Jason was recently named ABCA All-Atlantic Region Second Team at Division III Immaculata.