Millersville, Pa. - Behind the starting pitching outings of Eli Nabholz and Cordell Shannon, the Millersville baseball team took two games from Seton Hill by 6-2 scores Saturday at Cooper Park.

In the first-ever regular season doubleheader between the two Atlantic Region powers, Millersville received seven strong innings from Nabholz (3-2) in the opener, and a seven-inning, complete-game effort from Cordell Shannon (2-1) in game two. Millersville has now won six in a row against Seton Hill, improving to 7-4 all-time.

Saturday's wins came after being swept by Le Moyne just one week ago. But Millersville, which gave up 33 runs to Le Moyne, held Seton Hill to just six hits in each game. Nabholz struck out eight, and Shannon struck out a career-high 10 in his first complete game of 2018.

The top of Millersville's lineup provided the offensive punch in both games. No. 4 hitter Manning Brookens totaled four hits and five RBIs in the doubleheader.  Ted Williams reached base a total of five times and scored four runs. Cole Friese went 3 for 5 with two steals in the opener and added a hit, walk and run scored in game two. Kaylor Kulina walked three times in game one and went 2 for 2 with a double and two runs in game two.

GAME 1
Millersville built a 3-0 lead for Nabholz after just two innings. Williams singled and later scored, when a throw on a possible double play ball hit the running Ben Snyder and careened into the outfield. In the second, Brookens delivered a bases-loaded single.

Nabholz rolled through the first five innings, facing just one over the minimum in that span. He gave up leadoff singles in the second and fifth, but the defense cut down the runner each time. In the second, catcher John Turner picked the runner off of first base, and in the fifth, Nabholz rolled a 5-4-3 double play.

Millersville led 5-0 before Seton Hill's first run, which came on a Garret Vrabnic solo homer to leadoff the sixth. Nabholz ran into some trouble in the seventh, giving up three singles, which scored one, and a walk loaded the bases. But Nabholz responded ended the inning and stranded three by striking out the No. 9 hitter.

Drew Miller came on for the final two innings and retired six in a row with three strikeouts.

Brookens finished the game with a pair of hits and a sacrifice fly, totaling three RBIs.

GAME 2
Shannon's longest outing of the season can be credited to his efficiency. The junior lefty needed 105 pitchers to get through seven innings, and 75 percent of those pitches were strikes. Seton Hill managed a base runner in six of the seven innings, but Shannon induced one double play in the second and picked a runner off first base in the fifth.

Williams broke a 1-1 tie in the third on a single, which scored Friese. Brookens laced a double to left center, scoring Williams. While Seton Hill cut Millersville's lead to 3-2 in the top of the fourth, the Marauders responded with RBI singles from Cain and Williams in the bottom of the frame.

Shannon had all the lead he needed. He retired eight of the final nine batters and did not give up a hit after a leadoff single in the fifth.

Cain led the Marauders' lineup by going 3 for 3 with two RBIs.

UP NEXT
Millersville, now 11-7, plays a nine-inning game against Seton Hill Sunday before entering PSAC Eastern Division play Friday, March 23 at Shippensburg.