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SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – Senior Tom Bush and junior Pat Kregeloh combined for 18 strikeouts in 13 innings on the mound on Saturday afternoon as the Shippensburg University baseball team swept a doubleheader over WVIAC foe Concord in the 2013 home opener from Fairchild Field. The Raiders doubled-up the Mountain Lions, 10-5, in the opener before shutting them out, 3-0, to close out the twinbill.

With the nightcap shutout, the Raiders (6-1) earned their second shutout in the last three games as they have given up 12 runs in their six wins this season with the pitching staff boasting a 2.06 earned-run average.

For the second straight start, Bush (2-0) set a new career-high in strikeouts, this time fanning 10 in a complete-game, 99-pitch shutout in Game 2 while giving up six hits. Kregeloh started Game 1, allowing four hits and striking out eight in six innings of work to improve his season record to 3-0. Junior reliever Austin Bartley struck out two in the seventh to finish the opener.

Junior third baseman Cal Hogan went 3-for-5 on the afternoon and scored three runs in the opener before ripping a two-RBI single in the second game. Kregeloh went 3-for-6 total with two runs scored while sophomore Jimmy Spanos batted in two runs in the first game.

The two teams will play a single game on Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. from Fairchild Field.

Game 1: Shippensburg 10, Concord 5

Shippensburg scored three runs in both the third and fourth innings, beginning with a small-ball approach in the third. After sophomore first baseman Cody Ezolt led off with a four-pitch walk, freshman shortstop Mike Marcinko (sacrifice), Hogan and junior center fielder Michael Douglas each bunted with Douglas's a bunt-single that scored Ezolt.

Douglas then stole second before Hogan came home on a Spanos groundout to second base. Two batters later, Douglas added the final run of the inning on a passed ball with Kregeloh at the plate.

Ezolt again led off the fourth inning and roped a double down the left-field line on his second pitch of the at-bat before later scoring on a Marcinko sacrifice fly to right. Hogan and Douglas each reached base on fielding errors and eventually scored, with Douglas crossing home plate thanks to a Spanos double to right field that put the Raiders up 6-0.

After a scoreless fifth inning, Concord answered with a five-run explosion in the top of the sixth that included a bases-clearing, three-RBI triple to left center on a play in which replacement left fielder senior David McKolosky ran down the fly ball and nearly made the catch on the warning track before crashing into the fence as the ball rolled away.

Up 6-5 midway through the sixth, the Raiders responded with four more runs in the bottom half to re-establish their comfortable cushion. Hogan led off with an infield single to third base before advancing to second on a Marcinko sacrifice bunt. Hogan then scored two batters later on a single from Spanos, who advanced to second on a throwing error from the shortstop.

Senior right fielder Cody Kulp drove Spanos home with a single to center field on the first pitch he saw before Kregeloh welcomed a new Concord pitcher with a single to left field to put SU up 8-5. Senior catcher Tyler Shover then brought Kulp home with a double to center field before advancing to third on a wild pitch that scored Kregeloh.

Game 2: Shippensburg 3, Concord 0

Bush struck out three of the first four batters he faced before the Shippensburg offense backed him with the game's lone three runs coming in the bottom of the third inning.

Kregeloh led off the frame with a double down the left-field line on his first pitch seen before scoring in the next at-bat with a Shover RBI single up the middle. A Shover steal, a full-count walk from senior left fielder Simon Beloff and a second-baseman fielding error that allowed Ezolt to reach base loaded the bases for Hogan's two-run single to left-center field.