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Millersville vs. Goldey-Beacom baseball action in game 2 of a doubleheader at Cooper Park in Millersville, PA on Saturday, March 5, 2022. Mark Palczewski/Millersville Athletics Photo.
Mark Palczewski
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Winner Millersville MILL 11-5, 1-0 PSAC East
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Kutztown KUTZ 4-10, 0-1 PSAC East
Winner
Millersville MILL
11-5, 1-0 PSAC East
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Final
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Kutztown KUTZ
4-10, 0-1 PSAC East
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Millersville MILL 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 3 1
Kutztown KUTZ 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 3

W: Wilchacky, Ben (5-0) L: Z. Male (0-5) S: Pirozzi, Kris (2)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Ethan Hulsey, Director of Athletic Communications

Millersville starts PSAC East play with win at Kutztown

KUTZTOWN, Pa. - Ben Wilchacky, Christian Wingard and Kris Pirozzi combined to hold Kutztown scoreless for the final eight innings of Friday's PSAC East opener, leading the Millersville Marauders to a 3-2 road win. 

Friday marked the beginning of a new schedule format for PSAC league play that features a nine-inning game on Fridays followed by a seven-nine doubleheader. Wilchacky (5-0) won for the fifth time in five starts, and the Marauders rallied from a 2-0 deficit, using Keegan Soltis' RBI groundout in the sixth to take the lead for good. 

The Marauders were limited to three hits, but Wingard and Pirozzi combined for 3 2/3 hitless, scoreless innings in which they allowed just two runners to reach base. 

Millersville (11-5) has now won six of its last seven. 

GAME HIGHLIGHTS
• Wilchacky entered the game riding a streak of 15 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings, but Kutztown scored twice in the top of the first. A leadoff single and back-to-back hit batsmen loaded the bases. One run scored on a wild pitch, and a second came home on a balk. But Wilchacky quickly settled. He got two fly outs to escape the inning and went on to finish with 5 1/3 innings. 
• Millersville's bats promptly answered as well. Soltis led off the top of the second with a walk. Two sacrifice bunts and two Kutztown errors later and the game was tied. Chase Simmons scored on Tyler Wrights squeeze with two outs. 
• Millersville manufactured the go-ahead run in the sixth. Bren Taylor led off with a single and moved to third on Thomas Caufield's single. With one out, Soltis hit a roller to the third baseman, and Taylor raced home for the Millersville lead. 
• Wingard ended Kutztown's sixth by rolling a 4-6-3 double play and set down the Golden Bears in order in the seventh. Pirozzi entered in the eighth with a runner on first and quickly fanned two and sat down three in a row. In the ninth, Pirozzi hit the second batter of the inning, but he rallied with a strikeout and fly out to end it. 

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
• Bren Taylor, Caufield and Simmons totaled Millersville's hits--all of which were singles. Caufield also drew a walk. 
• Pirozzi's save was his third of the season, and he totaled three strikeouts in two innings. 

UP NEXT
• Because of the expected weather, Millersville and Kutzton will play a doubleheader at Cooper Park on Sunday, starting at 12 p.m. 
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