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SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – A walk-off single in the 10th inning from junior third baseman Cal Hogan in Sunday afternoon's opener sparked the Shippensburg University baseball team's crucial doubleheader sweep of defending national champion West Chester with 5-4 and 5-2 victories from Fairchild Field. The Raiders won the weekend series, 3-1.

The Raiders (22-17, 9-11 PSAC East) remain in fifth place in the PSAC East with one division series remaining (against Mansfield on May 4-5) and West Chester (18-16-1, 9-7) remains in fourth with two more weekend series remaining. The top four teams in each division at the end of the regular season qualify for the PSAC Tournament (May 8-11).

Junior Shawn Patterson and sophomore Nick Massetti each recorded strong starts on the hill for SU, with Patterson giving up just one hit through the first six innings of Game 1. He pitched into the seventh and finished the day with two earned runs.

Massetti threw a career-best six innings and gave up two runs on five hits while fanning a career-high eight batters for his second win of the season. Massetti entered the game with 10 strikeouts on the year in 19.2 innings pitched.

Freshman Marcus Shippey also notched his second win of the season in the extra-inning opener, going 3.2 innings of relief for Patterson while striking out four. In the nightcap, junior Pat Kregeloh recorded his first career save, retiring the side in the seventh with a foul out and two fly outs after entering with runners on first and second.

From the plate, Kregeloh went 2-for-5 with two RBIs in the opener and scored a run in Game 2. Hogan was 3-for-5 in Game 1 with two RBIs while sophomore second baseman Jimmy Spanos went 3-for-5.

The Raiders will play two single nine-inning games this week from Fairchild Field, hosting Lock Haven on Tuesday at 3 p.m. before welcoming Wilmington on Wednesday, also at 3 p.m.

Game 1: Shippensburg 5, West Chester 4

SU got on top in the first with Hogan doubling to right center in the second at-bat and senior catcher Tyler Shover following it up with a single to right. Kregeloh then drove home both runners with a deep double over the center fielder's head.

Both teams exchanged runs in the second, with the Raider run coming on a bases-loaded fielder's choice RBI from junior center fielder Michael Douglas for a 3-1 lead.

With a Golden Ram runner on base in the top of the third, senior right fielder Cody Kulp made an excellent running catch while crashing into the fence in foul territory behind the SU bullpen and holding on for the final out.

Patterson came through in the clutch himself in the sixth after loading the bases with two walks and a hit batter to lead off the frame. The right-hander then induced an infield fly to first, a foul out caught by a sprinting Spanos in right-field foul territory and a fielder-choice groundout to shortstop to escape the inning unscathed.

West Chester tied the game with two runs in the top of the seventh before grabbing the lead in the top of the eighth with an RBI single. Shippensburg quickly tied the game back up at 4-4 in the bottom half of the inning, when, with runners at the corners, Hogan laid down a well-executed bunt that scored Spanos and allowed Hogan to reach safely at first.

Shippey allowed just one Golden Ram hit in the ninth and 10th innings to set up the Raider victory in the bottom of the 10th. In his first plate appearance of the game after entering the previous inning as a defensive substitution in left field, senior David McKolosky drew a lead-off walk.

Spanos then reached on a bunt single before both runners advanced a base on a sacrifice bunt from freshman shortstop Mike Marcinko. Douglas was then intentionally walked before Hogan hit the first pitch he saw to deep, straight-away center that scored McKolosky for the walk-off win.

Game 2: Shippensburg 5, West Chester 2

After giving up two early WCU runs in the top of the first on a two-run single after hitting two batters and giving up a walk, Massetti settled down nicely, giving up just three hits over the next five innings.

The Raider offense eventually came through as well, scoring two runs in the fifth and tying the game with a Spanos double to right center and an advance on a throw, followed by a Marcinko RBI infield-single.

SU then took the lead with reactive base running on a pair of wild pitches in the bottom of the sixth inning that scored a run each. Senior left fielder Simon Beloff then drove in the game's final run with a double to right field that plated junior designated hitter Dan Wimer.