Millersville, Pa. - Eli Nabholz and Cordell Shannon both threw complete game shutouts, leading Millersville to wins by scores of 4-0 and 3-0 against Mansfield Friday afternoon at Cooper Park.

Millersville (19-9, 7-2 PSAC East) extended its hitting streak to four and has won nine of the last 11. During that stretch, Millersville has limited opponents to three runs or fewer nine times.

One year ago, Nabholz threw a no-hitter against Mansfield at Cooper Park. On Friday, he went seven innings for the third time this season. He allowed four hits and two walks while striking out four. Shannon's complete game was his second in three starts. He fanned seven while surrendering four hits.Shannon has given up just four earned runs over his last three starts spanning 20 1/3 innings. 

Reliever turned emergency second baseman Bobby Dorta drove in a run in both games and was perfect in 12 fielding chances.

GAME 1
Millersville totaled just three hits but didn't need much offense with Nabholz on the mound. Nabholz made quick work of the Mountaineers, needing just 85 pitches to go the distance. Not a single Mansfield runner reached scoring position. Nine of the 21 outs came off infield ground balls.

With hits not falling Millersville found ways to manufacture runs. In the second, Manning Brookens drew a leadoff walk and later scored on Eric Callahan's well-executed squeeze play. Jimmy Cain put Millersville up 2-0 with an RBI single in the third. Dominic Hardaway and Luke Trainer started the fourth with back-to-back walks. Both moved into scoring position on a Callahan sacrifice bunt. Hardaway scored on a Brandon White sacrifice fly. Dorta then picked up his first career RBI on his first career hit.

GAME 2
Shannon cruised through the first four innings, striking out six of eight batters in one stretch. But in the fifth, Mansfield put Millersville's 1-0 lead in serious jeopardy. The first three batters reached without hitting the ball past the pitchers' mound. Shannon, however, struck out Camren Ney and then got pinch hitter Zach Merkle to bounce back to him. Shannon fired home to cut down the lead runner. Shannon stranded three Mountaineers by getting leadoff hitter Colby Shearer to ground out to Dorta.

Mansfield also had back-to-back, one-out singles in the sixth, but Shannon again sat down two in a row to end the inning.

Timely hitting was key for the Millersville bats. Cain's RBI ground out in the first put Millersville up 1-0. In the fifth, Dominic Hardaway drove in Cole Friese with a single between third and short. In the sixth, Dorta followed a Brandon White double with his second RBI single in as many games.

Friese went 2 for 4 with a run. Callahan went 2 for 3 with a stolen base. White went 2 for 3 with a double and a run.

UP NEXT
Millersville travels to Mansfield Saturday for games three and four of the series. First pitch is slated for 1 p.m.