SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – Freshman Shawn Patterson threw six strong innings to win his first collegiate start and junior Tyler Uphouse went 3-for-3 as the Shippensburg University baseball team won the nightcap to salvage a split of its chilly Tuesday doubleheader with Indiana (Pa.). IUP won the opener 11-5 while SU won the second game 7-3.

Shippensburg (7-11) scored in a variety of manners in the second game, plating seven runs while recording just two RBIs. Junior Ben Miller singled home a run in the first and the Raiders got another thanks to a wild pitch during a strikeout with the bases loaded.

Freshman Pat Kregeloh hit a sacrifice fly in the third; Miller doubled in the fifth and eventually scored on a wild pitch, and two more runs came across the plate in the sixth due to a fielding error by the IUP shortstop.

Patterson was the star on the mound, allowing just one earned run on six hits while striking out four. He walked just two batters and threw 119 pitches. Through 11.1 innings this year, Patterson has posted a 3.18 ERA.

When Patterson did get into a jam, he did a fine job to escape it. In the first, the Crimson Hawks got runners on first and second with one out before Patterson struck out the cleanup hitter and got the next man to foul out to first. Patterson also induced a double-play grounder in the fourth after he appeared to have picked off the runner on the pitch before.

Indiana (8-8) jumped on sophomore Josh Scott in the first game, scoring four runs in the first inning and two more in the second. The Crimson Hawks dinged and dented their way to 16 hits against five different Raider pitchers – 13 of which were singles.

Kregeloh and senior Kris Kullman each had two hits in the opener while senior AJ Czap and junior Eric Herman both drove in two runs.

SU got the tying run to the plate in the bottom of the sixth with no outs but not could erase its three-run deficit. IUP tacked on three more runs in the seventh to put the first game out of reach for the Raiders.

Shippensburg begins divisional play Friday at home with a 1 p.m. doubleheader against Bloomsburg from Fairchild Field.