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MILLERSVILLE, Pa. – The Shippensburg University baseball team picked up its first series sweep in conference play since its 2009 shift back to the PSAC Eastern Division by winning both ends of a Sunday doubleheader at Millersville, taking the opener 5-0 and the other 4-3 from Marauder Park.

Shippensburg (18-11, 5-3 PSAC East) has now won six of its last seven games and continues to excel when it gets solid production from its pitching and defense. In 18 of the team's 19 victories thus far, the Raiders have yielded four runs or less. Its Game 1 shutout marked the fourth time the team has blanked an opponent this year.

SU's last PSAC Eastern Division series sweeps came in 2001 over Millersville and East Stroudsburg.

On Sunday, junior Tom Bush had his best outing of the season with six shutout innings. He allowed just three hits, all singles, and two walks while striking out a career-high eight hitters to run his season record up to 3-2.

Sophomore Austin Bartley relieved Bush in the opener and earned the victory in Game 2 with 1.1 shutout innings of relief – working out of a jam in the fifth inning. Bartley has not allowed a run in his last four appearances – extending his scoreless streak to 6.2 innings. Against PSAC opponents this season, Bartley has allowed one earned run in 13.1 innings of work (eight appearances), striking out seven.

Sophomore Pat Kregeloh made his second career start in Game 2 and was replaced in the fourth by sophomore Shawn Patterson. Redshirt senior Kody Kibler pitched a scoreless seventh inning for his third save of the season.
 
Freshman Jimmy Spanos and sophomore Kyle Hollingsworth each had four total hits in the doubleheader. Hollingsworth went 3-for-3 in the opener and had a pinch-hit double in Game 2. Spanos had two hits in both games.

In this weekend's series against Millersville, Spanos was 9-for-16 at the plate with five extra-base hits, two RBIs and six runs scored from the leadoff spot. He struck out just once. Hollingsworth, despite starting in just three of the four games, was 5-for-9 with four RBIs against the Marauders.

Millersville (12-12, 2-6 PSAC East), the defending Atlantic Regional champions, was swept in a series for the first time since 2010 and has now lost as many games this season as it did all of last year. The Marauders managed just eight hits in 31 at-bats this weekend with runners in scoring position and had just seven RBIs as a team in the four-game set.

Shippensburg will travel to Wilmington (Del.) on Tuesday for a nine-inning game. First pitch is set for 3:30 p.m.

Game 1: Shippensburg 5, Millersville 0

SU opened the game with three straight singles, scoring a run in the top of the first after a sacrifice fly off the bat of junior left fielder Simon Beloff.

In the third inning, Spanos hit a one-out triple and scored on a sacrifice fly by Hollingsworth. Junior Cody Kulp and Beloff then provided back-to-back doubles that gave SU a 3-0 lead.

The Raiders added two unearned runs in the fourth inning. With one out, junior center fielder David McKolosky struck out but ultimately reached second base on the play, as a wild pitch ended up in the pitcher's hand but his throw to first base went down the line. Junior Tyler Basso scored on the play. McKolosky scored two batters later on an RBI-single by Hollingsworth.

Bush retired the side in order in the first and third innings and did not allow a batter past second base in his six innings of work. At one point, Bush recorded five straight outs via the strikeout in a sequence that spanned the second and third inning.
 
Bartley pitched the seventh, striking out one while working around a hit batter and a single.

It was the just the fifth time in Marauder Park history (2007) that Millersville was shut out on its home field.

Game 2: Shippensburg 4, Millersville 3

The Raiders scored at least one run in the first inning for the fifth straight. SU scored two in the opening frame, getting RBI-singles from Beloff and junior Steve Sulcoski. The Marauders got two runners into scoring position with one out in the bottom of the first but Kregeloh got out of the jam with a pop-up and a groundout, both achieved on full-count pitches.

Millersville got on the board in the third inning with a run on an RBI-groundout. Senior Eric Herman, who was moved to the No. 2 spot in the batting order for Game 2, got a run back for the Raiders in the fourth with an RBI-single. Jeff Heisey's RBI-single for the Marauders made it 3-2 after four innings.

Relief pitcher Patterson ran into trouble in the fifth after yielding a leadoff double to Mike August. He nearly escaped the jam, but gave up a RBI-single to Kurt Seiders that made it 3-3. After a walk loaded the bases, Bartley came in and ended the inning by striking out Heisey on four pitches.

Freshman Bobby Atwell made his second career start in center field and wound up scoring the game-winning run. He reached on a throwing error to lead off the sixth inning, getting to second base after Jason Long's throw went awry. Spanos doubled him home in the next at-bat.

Bartley pitched a scoreless sixth and Kibler worked around a two-out walk to get the save in the seventh.

Herman was 2-for-3 with a walk in the game while Kulp drew walks in three of his four plate appearances. Freshman Cody Ezolt played first base in the game and was 1-for-2 with two walks.