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SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – Redshirt-senior Kody Kibler set the single-season saves record and head coach Matt Jones surpassed the 300 career win mark on Friday afternoon as the Shippensburg University baseball team clinched a PSAC playoff berth with a doubleheader home sweep of East Stroudsburg on Senior Day from Fairchild Field. The Raiders won the opener 10-5 before taking the nightcap 6-3.

With the victories, Shippensburg (28-19, 13-9 PSAC East) can now finish no worse than fourth in the Eastern Division. The wins over ESU (24-19-1, 8-13-1) also gave Jones 301 total for his career coaching both Elizabethtown and the Raiders. He is now 301-289-2, with 153 of those wins coming in an SU uniform.

Senior pitchers Jimmy Miller and Nick Umberger earned victories, with Jimmy Miller pitching into the sixth inning in Game 1 while giving up three runs on seven hits and striking out three. Umberger gave up one earned run off five hits in five innings of work with two strikeouts in the nightcap.

Kibler pitched the seventh in the Game 2 win to earn his eighth save of the season – and third in the last four games – to surpass the previous single-season record of seven that he met last season. Junior Josh Scott served as Kibler's set-up man by pitching the sixth inning of Game 2.

Sophomore Austin Bartley came in in relief of Jimmy Miller in the opener and pitched one and one-third innings. Senior Ted Williams came in to earn the final out in the seventh.

The Raiders hitters took advantage of the command issues of East Stroudsburg's pitchers, earning 19 walks on the afternoon, led by freshman second baseman Jimmy Spanos with four. Junior center fielder Cody Kulp went 3-for-7 with an RBI and three runs scored while sophomore first baseman Pat Kregeloh hit his fourth home run of the season and drove in two runs in Game 1.

Junior right fielder Simon Beloff and junior third baseman Tyler Basso each had two RBIs in the opener.

Umberger, Jimmy Miller, Kibler, Williams, senior shortstop Ben Miller, senior left fielder Eric Herman, senior utility player Tyler Uphouse and junior Cam Richardson were all honored between games during Senior Day festivities.

The two teams will play a doubleheader at ESU tomorrow beginning at 1 p.m.

Game 1: Shippensburg 10, East Stroudsburg 5

SU jumped on the Warriors early, grabbing two runs in the first beginning with leadoff back-to-back walks from Herman and Spanos. Kulp then grounded to the pitcher, who turned and threw to the shortstop to get Spanos out at second. The shortstop's throw to first base to turn the double play was low and bounced past the bag to allow Herman to score from third. Kulp then stole second and scored on a Beloff RBI single through the left side for a 2-0 lead.

ESU catcher Nico Delerme led off with a home run in the top of the second to cut the deficit in half. The Raiders got the run back in the third, however, beginning with a leadoff single to center field from Kulp, who later crossed home plate on a Kregeloh RBI single to left field.

Kregeloh added his second RBI of the game in the fifth inning with his home run to left field to stretch SU's lead to 4-1. ESU closed to within 4-3 in the top of the sixth, though, with two runs on a double and three singles.

Shippensburg broke the game open in the bottom of the sixth, scoring six runs on three hits, four walks and an ESU error with every spot in the Raider line-up coming up to bat. Ben Miller, Herman and Spanos led off with walks to load the bases for Kulp, who singled to the pitcher. The pitcher's throw then went over the first baseman's head and allowed Ben Miller and Herman to score for a 6-3 SU lead.

Beloff hit a sacrifice fly to center field to score Spanos from third and push Kulp to second. Two batters later after a walk from junior catcher Tyler Shover, Basso doubled to left field to score Kulp and Shover. Sophomore designated hitter Dan Wimer then singled through the right side to plate Basso for a 10-3 Raiders advantage.

Game 2: Shippensburg 6, East Stroudsburg 3

Shippensburg jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the second inning, highlighted by a 13-pitch Ben Miller at-bat that ended in a walk. Herman then hit a ball to shallow right field that advanced Jimmy Miller – who walked earlier – to third base and got Ben Miller out at second on a throw from the second baseman to the shortstop. The shortstop then threw to first to turn the double play, but the first baseman failed to make the catch, allowing Jimmy Miller to score.

After East Stroudsburg tied it at 1 with an RBI single in the top of the third, the Raiders broke the game open with five runs in the bottom half of the inning. With two outs, Kregeloh and Basso each walked before scoring in the next at-bat with a Jimmy Miller single that fell in no man's land behind second base.

Ben Miller and Herman then hit back-to-back RBI doubles, with Jimmy Miller and Ben Miller each crossing home plate. Kulp then sent Herman home with a single to right field for a 6-1 Shippensburg lead.

ESU then got two runs off two Shippensburg errors in the top of the fourth inning to cut its deficit in half. Those would be the final runs of the day for either team, however.