ABOUT THE MARAUDERS
• Millersville opened PSAC East play by winning three of four against Bloomsburg. Millersville is one of four teams in the East two win three of four in the opening weekend. Of the 54 PSAC East series Millersville has played since the start of the 2011 season, it has lost only three series. Shippensburg owns two of those series wins (2012 and 2017), and is the only PSAC East program to sweep Millersville since 2010.Â
• Millersville boasts the PSAC's top-run scoring offense. Millersville averages 8.6 runs per game and has scored 53 more runs than any other team in the league. Millersville also leads the PSAC in doubles (49) and walks (114) and ranks second in home runs (24) and on base percentage (.410).Â
• Millersville has seen a surge in home run production. It has already hit more home runs that it did in all of 2018. Millersville hit five homers at Bloomsburg and has hit at least one in 12 of the last 17 games. The Marauders are 10-2 when hitting at least one home run.Â
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Ben Snyder enters the weekend riding a 17-game hitting streak. It is the longest streak by a Marauder since
Mitch Stoltzfus posted a 28-game streak in 2016. It started on Feb. 24 against Lake Erie, and he is hitting .394 (28-for-71) with 11 extra-base hits and a .451 OBP during that stretch. Snyder ranks second in the PSAC in hits and runs, is fourth in RBIs and third in doubles.
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Cole Friese has reached base in all 23 games of the season and leads the PSAC in hits and runs while also ranking second in home runs and third in RBIs. Friese's seven homers are already a career high. Friese has also scored at least one run in 19 of 23 games. Millersville is 0-4 when Friese does not score a run.Â
Friese has also jump-started Millersville on the base paths. In the first 13 games, Friese went 1-for-4 in stolen base chances. In the last nine games, Friese is a perfect 10-for-10 in steals. In that same stretch, Millersville is 30-for-35 in stolen base opportunities. The Marauders were 6-for-15 in stolen base attempts in the first 13 games.Â
• Shippensburg native
Cordell Shannon has had plenty of success against his hometown team. Shannon did not face the Raiders in 2018, but in three starts in 2016 and 2017, Shannon went 3-0 with no runs and 11 hits allowed over 25 innings. In 2019, Shannon has won his last five starts, posting a 2.45 ERA with 30 strikeouts to nine walks and a .213 batting average against in 29 1/3 innings. He is second in the PSAC in wins, third in innings and eighth in strikeouts.Â
• Out of the bullpen,
Aidan Welch has made 10 appearances and has now allowed a run in eight of those. He made three appearances in the Bloomsburg series, totaling 1 1/3 innings. He gave up just one hit.
Tyler Yankosky has allowed only two earned runs in his nine appearances totaling 15 2/3 innings. He has struck out 24. Opponents are hitting just .145 against him.
Christian Wingard has been dominant in his bridge role. He has made eight appearances totaling five innings and has allowed just one hit in 18 at bats, striking out 11.
Bobby Dorta made his first start of the season in game four of the Bloomsburg series and gave up just one unearned run in 3 1/3 innings. Dorta has not allowed an earned run in his five appearances spanning 9 2/3 innings.
Noah Hartwell has not allowed a run in six of his seven appearances and has struck out 13 in 8 1/3 innings.Â
SERIES HISTORY
Series vs. Shippensburg (since 1957): 66-108-1
Series Streak: Ville, 5
Last Meeting: 2018 (W, 6-2)
Last Season Series: Ville, 4-0
Last 10 Meetings: 7-3
Jon Shehan vs. Ship: 27-18
• Millersville swept last season's four-game series, but because of weather, the games were not played in the usual Friday-Saturday format. Rather, the Marauders and Raiders played the four games on three dates between March 28 and April 18. The first three games were decided by one run. Millersville won 7-6 on a walk-off single from
Dominic Hardaway in game two.
Tyler Yankosky won games two and three of the series, allowing a combined two earned runs on eight hits and eight walks over 11 2/3 innings.Â
• Expect low-scoring games. In the last seven meetings, the winning team has scored no more than seven runs and the losing team has averaged 2.1 runs per game. In the 42 meetings since 2009, the losing team has scored more than four runs just four times.Â
• While
Jon Shehan is 27-18 (.600) against Shippensburg, the Marauders went 39-90-1 (.304) from 1957 until Shehan's arrival in 2008.Â
SCOUTING SHIPPENSBURG
• After starting 5-10, Shippensburg has won six of the last seven including three in a row over Kutztown to start PSAC East play and a 13-9 non-conference win over Seton Hill on Tuesday. The Raiders shut out Kutztown twice on Sunday, using a one-hitter from Noah Inch and a complete-game from Michael Hope.Â
• The Raiders lead the PSAC in home runs with 25 in 21 games. They have hit at least one homer in 13 games. Jack Goertzen is tied for the third in the league with six. Four Raiders have four or more homers.Â
• Shippensburg's team 5.74 ERA ranks 13th in the PSAC. The .282 batting average against is fourth-highest in the league. The Raiders have won each of the last four starts made by Inch, who is now 3-1 with a team-leading 2.83 ERA. Shippensburg has also won the last four appearances made by Hope, who is 4-2 with four consecutive winning decisions. The Raiders lean heavily on their starting pitch. The four starters with at least five starts have logged at least 22. 2/3 innings. Only seven other pitchers have made appearances, five of which have logged more than three innings.Â
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