Mars Hill, North Carolina - No. 5 Millersville totaled 21 runs and 24 hits in rolling to a doubleheader sweep of Mars Hill on Sunday. Millersville won game one 8-5 in dramatic fashion erasing a three-run deficit in its final at bat and scored three runs in the top of the eighth. The Marauders totaled 10 runs in the first three innings of game two en route to a 13-5 win.

Now 8-3, Millersville has won four of the last five and have scored at least eight runs in each of those wins. Chas McCormick entered the day with a 16-game hitting streak and extended it with three hits in game one, but it came to an end with an 0-for-5 showing in game two. Mike Mock earned win in game one with two innings of relief, and freshman reliever Chris Blair picked up the win in game two.

Back-to-back doubles and a home run gave Mars Hill a 5-1 lead after the fifth inning of game one. Jimmy Cain plated a run with a sacrifice fly in the sixth, but the Marauders still trailed by three in its final at bat. Ted Williams started with a single, and McCormick added a one-out single. Williams scored on Mitch Stoltzfus' RBI groundout, making the score 5-3. Facing the final out, Ben Snyder ripped a single, scoring McCormick. Millersville pinch ran freshman Cole Friese, and he promptly put himself in scoring position by stealing second. David Summerfield laced a single, and Friese scored from second, tying the game.

Mock sat down the top of Mars Hill's lineup in order in the seventh, and in the eighth, Millersville broke the tie with three unearned runs. Manning Brookens and Williams scored on McCormick's double, and Stoltzfus added a RBI single. Mars Hill loaded the bases in the bottom half of the eighth, but a line out to shortstop recorded the first out. Mock then got the next batter to pop up to Eric Callahan, and he ended the game by firing home to Stoltzfus, who tagged out the runner.

Game two was all Millersville, and they were aided by Mars Hill errors in first and second innings. Seven of the first eight runs were unearned, but Millersville still totaled six hits in those two innings.

Dan Neff scored four runs despite going 1-for-4 at the plate. Snyder totaled four RBIs with two doubles, a single and two walks.

Starter David Manasek pitched 3 1/3 innings, allowing four runs (three earned) on two hits, three walks and two hit batsmen. Blair pitched the final inning and recorded a strikeout. He was the lone Marauder pitcher to pitch at least one inning without allowing a run.

Millersville travels to Shepherd on March 4 before opening its home schedule on March 5 against Shepherd.