LOCK HAVEN, Pa. - The 17th-ranked Millersville baseball team capped its regular season by splitting a doubleheader at Lock Haven, winning the first game by a score of 13-1 before losing the second game, which was called after five innings due to rain, 1-0 on Saturday.
The Marauders head into Wednesday's PSAC Tournament as a No. 1 seed and with a record of 37-12 overall and 23-5 in the PSAC East. The .821 in-division winning percentage is the second-best in program history, narrowly edged by the .893 winning percentage posted by the 2016 team which went 25-3.
Millersville swept three of the seven division series--a feat matched only by the 2016 team, which swept four. The 37 regular season wins rank as the second-most in program history.
GAME 1 RECAP (MILLERSVILLE 13, LOCK HAVEN 1)
• Millersville scored 13 runs on 13 hits and received home runs from
Jimmy Cain and
Dominic Hardaway. Both finished with three RBIs. Hardaway's blast in the second tied him for the team lead with 11. Hardaway was also one of four Marauders with two hits.
• Cain gave the Marauders a 3-0 lead just three batters into the game. An error and a single proceeded Cain's home run to the opposite field. Hardaway drove in
Ben Snyder to cap a four-run, five-hit first inning.
• In the third,
Eric Callahan drove in a run with a single and Hardaway followed with a two-run homer. Millersville put six on the board in the fifth, receiving RBI hits from
Jimmy Losh,
Cole Friese and Kayor Kulina.
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Cordell Shannon (9-2) moved into a tie for the team-lead with his nine win of the season, and his 4 1/3 innings made him Millersville's career innings leader with 295 2/3. He struck out seven and gave up just three hits.
GAME 2 RECAP (LOCK HAVEN 1, MILLERSVILLE 0)
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Manning Brookens' leadoff single in the top of the third inning was the only Marauder hit, and the one run Lock Haven scored in the first inning proved to be enough in a shortened game.
• Millersville had a chance to tie the game in its half of the second inning after
Luke Trainer led off with a walk and stole second with two outs, but the Marauders were unable to get him home.
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Daniel Ross,
Bobby Dorta and
Andrew Mayhew combined to pitch all five innings for Millersville, with Mayhew striking out two in a perfect fourth inning of relief.
NOTES
• Shannon now ranks first at Millersville in career innings pitched and strikeouts and is second in wins with 31.
• Friese and Hardaway are the first Marauder teammates to hit 10 or more home runs in the same season.
UP NEXT
• Millersville begins play in the PSAC Tournament on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., against the No. 4 seed from the PSAC West.
