SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – Seniors Courtney Steele and Moira Johnsen drove in all eight of SU's runs in Saturday's opening game and freshman pitcher Emily Estep finished the day with a two-hit shutout as the Shippensburg University softball team remained perfect in conference play with a doubleheader sweep of Millersville, 8-7 and 1-0.

Shippensburg (20-8, 6-0 PSAC East) has won six games to open its conference schedule for the first time since the 2005 season, when the Raiders won their first 17 games in PSAC play and finished with a 42-5 record. Estep has won five of those six games and run her record up to 10-2 for the season.

While Steele and Johnsen drove the runners home, the tablesetters were seniors Jill Mullan and Dana Ward. Mullan scored three times in the opener in addition to going 3-for-5 with two doubles at the plate. Ward was 2-for-3 with a walk, sacrifice, run and stolen base.

SU took a 7-1 lead after four innings of the opener. Steele hit a sacrifice fly in the first, a two-run single in the second and a two-run single in the fourth while Johnsen had an RBI-single in the first and an RBI-double in the second.

Millersville (10-12, 0-4 PSAC East) rallied for six unanswered runs to tie the score and send the game into extra innings. In the bottom of the eighth, Mullan doubled with one out, moved to third on a single by Ward, and scored on an RBI-single by Johnsen that ended the game.

Estep allowed a double in the sixth that plated an inherited runner but gave up just one hit in the final 2.2 innings of the opener for the victory. She gave up a single in the first inning of the second game and gave up just one more at the start of the seventh inning. Estep tied a career-high with 12 strikeouts – she fanned five of the six batters she faced in the fifth and sixth innings.

At the plate, freshman catcher Kirstin McClune was outstanding in the second game. After falling behind 0-2 in her first at-bat, McClune fouled off several pitches and worked the count full. On the 11th pitch of the at-bat, McClune ripped a double into the left-center field gap. In the fourth, McClune ripped a single down the left-field line that scored senior Hope Cornell which proved to be the only run of the game.

Steele had four hits between the two games on Saturday. Both Steele and Cornell are currently in the midst of 12-game hitting streaks.

On Wednesday, Shippensburg will host East Stroudsburg at 2:30 p.m. in a PSAC Eastern Division doubleheader from Robb Field.