MILLERSVILLE, Pa. – Everything was on the line as the Millersville Marauders hosted the Bloomsburg Huskies on the last day of the season. With a sweep, Millersville could force the visitors out of the PSAC Playoff Tournament and claim that spot for their own. However, it was not to be that way, as the Huskies took both games in relatively comfortable fashion. The sad day for Marauders fans had a 'bittersweet' ending, as senior Aleese Angelo homered in her final at-bat to break one record and match another.

GAME ONE:
The Huskies got on the board first. A bad hop led to an infield single and a bloop single brought the first tally home to score in the second inning. The visitors added one more run in the third before Gabi Turner stepped to the plate in the bottom of that frame with a runner on base. She blasted a 3-1 fastball over the scoreboard in left field to tie the game at two. Turner's moonshot landed either right in front of or on the top of the batting cages beyond the left field fence.
 
The visitors would answer right back with in their next at-bat. With two runners on, a pinch hitter lifted a three-run home run that clanked off the left-field foul pole. The most crucial play of the game was made by the Bloomsburg defense. With the bases loaded and one away in the fifth, Turner stepped to the plate once more. She worked the count to 3-1 and smoked a one-hopper at the shortstop which turned into a tailor-made double play.
 
The score heading into the bottom of the seventh was 7-2, a doable task for this resilient Millersville squad. Back-to-back one-out walks brought up Angelo, who promptly lasered a pitch over the right-center field fence to cut the deficit to two. That was as close as the hosts would get, falling 7-5. 

GAME TWO:
The Huskies scored in each of the first four innings in what turned out to be rout in their favor. A run in the top of the first followed by two more in the second put the visitor lead at 3-0. Gabby D'Ottavio, in what was likely her last game as a Marauder, hit a home run to center field to make it 3-1.
 
The Huskies entered the game with just 16 home runs in 48 games, which ranked sixteenth in the PSAC. They added three more to their team total today, the third being a two-run shot to go up 5-1 in the top of the third. Millersville would strike back shortly after due to its patience at the plate.
 
A third-inning bases-loaded walk for Angelo brought home the team's second run of the contest. Turner stepped to the plate in a similar situation to that of game one. The graduate student made good in her second opportunity, driving her twelfth long ball of the season out over the left field fence for the lead. It was her second grand slam of the season and the third of her career.  That lead would again be short-lived, however. The visitors took a stranglehold on the game during a fourth inning that saw them bring home eight runs with the aid of four Marauder miscues. 

It was mostly quiet after that save for Angelo's final at bat. Leading off the bottom of the seventh, she smacked the first pitch she saw out of the park, eliciting tears from much of the Millersville bench. The home run gave her the program record for hits in a season with 71, passing the previous mark of 70 set by Brittany Smith in 2017. She also tied Lindsay Hosier for most runs scored in a career as a Marauder with 141.

GAME NOTES

• The Marauders' record against the Huskies all-time falls to 16-106 all-time.
• The last time Turner hit a grand slam was at Fairmont St. on March 7 of this season.

POSTGAME REACTION FROM HEAD COACH JEN PROBST

• On the season: "Obviously it didn't finish the way we wanted it to. Looking at the season as a whole, this is by far the most competitive team I've seen. We've never been out of it and we're always fighting. The bats were alive these last couple days. It was nice to see our seniors slamming balls today, but also very bittersweet."
• On Angelo's emotional last at-bat: "I think we were all in tears. It was a huge moment. I think it's the culmination of an outstanding career effort all around. It was the cherry on top."