Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania - Chas McCormick totaled six hits and five runs as the Millersville Marauders swept a road doubleheader at Bloomsburg by scores of 14-2 and 8-5.
Millersville's 19 hits in game one were a season high. Four of them came from McCormick, who went 4-for-5 with a first-inning, leadoff home run, four runs scored and two stolen bases.
Ben Snyder hit his sixth home run of the season. Six Marauders had at least two hits.
The Marauders needed a seventh-inning rally in game two. Bloomsburg's two-run sixth inning put the Huskies in front 5-4, but Millersville retaliated with four runs in the top of the seventh.
Manning Brookens put Millersville back in front with a two-run double, and
Ted Williams extended the lead with a two-run single. McCormick added a single and double in the game,
David Summerfield hit a two-run homer, and every spot in the lineup reached base and seven players scored runs.
The Marauders, now winners of 10 of the last 13 games, won both games of a road, PSAC East doubleheader for the first time this season.
Now 29-14 overall, Millersville moved to 12-10 in the PSAC East, 2 1/2 games ahead of East Stroudsburg for the fourth and final playoff spot, and just two games behind Lock Haven and Shippensburg for second place. The Marauders and Huskies close out the series at Cooper Park Saturday.
GAME 1
McCormick's leadoff home run over the center field wall set the tone for the opener. McCormick scored three runs and had three hits in the first three innings as Millersville raced to an 8-1 lead.
Mitch Stoltzfus, who finished with three hits and two RBIs, drove in a run in both the second and third innings. Four of Millersville's first 10 hits were of the extra base variety.
Offered significant run support,
Eli Nabholz (7-1) rolled to his team-leading fifth complete game, striking out eight while scattering six hits. After the Huskies scored a run and put two in scoring position with one out in the first, Nabholz sat down five in a row and allowed only one other Bloomsburg base runner to reach scoring position the rest of the game. A solo homer in the fifth was Bloomsburg's only other run.
All 12 Marauders to appear at the plate reached base. The 14 runs scored were the most against a conference opponent this season.
GAME 2
Bloomsburg scored a run in the first and hit a two-run home run in the second to build a 3-0 lead, but Millersville took the lead in the third. McCormick started in the inning with a double and scored on a Stoltzfus single.
Dan Neff scored on a wild pitch, and Summerfield's two-run homer put Millersville in front, 4-3.
Freshman starter
Tyler Yankosky worked into the sixth but after retiring the first hitting, he quickly ran into trouble. Back-to-back singles and a throwing error put the tying run on the board. That was followed by a hit batsman.
Matt Ulrich came on, but a balk put runners in scoring position, and the second error of the inning allowed the go-ahead run to score. Ulrich ended the jam with a 4-6-3 double play.
Bloomsburg Casey Cooperman met a fate similar to Yankosky in seventh. After retiring Stoltzfus, he walked Snyder and Summerfield. An infield single from
Jimmy Cain loaded the bases, and Brookens' double put Millersville back on top. Williams pushed the lead to 8-5 with a two-run single--his second hit in as many innings.
Mike Mock came on in the seventh and struck out the side for his fifth save.
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