Lock Haven, Pennsylvania - After Millersville's pitching shut down Lock Haven on Friday, Lock Haven returned the favor on Saturday, beating the visiting Marauders by 3-1 scores in both games of the doubleheader.
Jacob Belinda (6-1) out-dueled
Cordell Shannon (2-4) in game one, throwing a complete game and holding Millersville to three hits while striking out eight. Shannon also allowed three hits, but a two-run homer hit by Hunter Szaflarski in the third inning was the difference. In game two, Brett Morrison went five innings, and the Lock Haven bullpen threw two shutout innings with Breton Larose getting his eighth save of the season.
David Manasek gave up just three hits and two runs over 5 1/3 but took the loss to fall to 3-4.
Lock Haven's game one victory snapped Millersville's 14-game winning streak over the Bald Eagles. It was also Lock Haven's first win over the Marauders since joining the PSAC East in 2014. The Marauders' record fell to 26-14 overall and 10-10 in the PSAC East while Lock Haven improved to 27-11 overall and 13-7 in the PSAC East.
Millersville travels to Wilmington for a non-conference doubleheader on Tuesday.
GAME 1
Lock Haven scored the first run of the game in the bottom fo the first on a wild pitch and then broke a 1-1 tie in the third with Szaflarski's two-run homer to left.
That was all the runs Lock Haven would need. Millersville's lone score came when
Ben Snyder singled home
Chas McCormick, but the potential for another run was cut down at third when
Dan Neff was thrown out. Not one other Marauder batter reached base the rest of the game as Belinda retired 12 in a row.
GAME 2
Millersville took a 1-0 lead on Mitch Stoltzfu's RBI single in the third, but Lock Haven charged back. They scored a run in the fifth on a Szaflarski single, which was set-up by a walk, sacrifice bunt and wild pitch. The tie was broken in the sixth when Jamie Eshleman cashed in a hit batsmen and a walk with a two-out, two-run double. The the walk and double were issued by Marauder reliever
Mike Mock.
In the top half of the sixth, Millersville stranded two, including the go-ahead run on third and then went down in order in the seventh.
Lock Haven's Nick Hornbaker picked up the win after throwing a shutout sixth. Larose struckout one in the seventh for the save.
