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SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – With a bye in its PSAC East schedule this weekend, the Shippensburg University baseball team kept its bats hot with a Saturday afternoon doubleheader sweep of PSAC West foe Clarion to celebrate Senior Day and Alumni Day from Fairchild Field. SU posted a 5-0 shutout in the opener before earning a 13-3 nightcap triumph.

In a ceremony at home plate between games, the Raiders (25-18) honored their seven seniors – Simon Beloff, Tom Bush, Kyle Hollingsworth, Cody Kulp, David McKolosky, Josh Scott and Tyler Shover – with Bush and Scott each earning starts from the mound. Bush continued his standout senior season with his fifth win, giving up four hits and striking out four in six innings of work in Game 1.

Scott, however, had not pitched this season due to injury, but earned the Senior Day Game 2 start and pitched to the lead-off Clarion (1-37) batter to begin the game. Clearly limited with his injury, Scott gave up three consecutive balls before earning a looking strike and a swinging strike on back-to-back pitches. After two foul balls, Scott hit the batter before exiting the game and walking off to the acclaim of his coaches and teammates.

Junior Pat Kregeloh entered to pitch, and in four innings on the mound, gave up three hits and one run (a solo home run) while striking out six. Sophomore Kevin Richter, junior Austin Bartley and freshmen DJ Kinna and Thomas Swartz each pitched an inning during the doubleheader.

A total of 14 Raiders earned plate appearances in the doubleheader. McKolosky started both games in left field and went 3-for-3 with three runs scored and an RBI in the nightcap. Hollingsworth earned his first start of the season at catcher in Game 2 and played the backstop for the first six innings before being pinch-hit for in the sixth.

Shippensburg took a 2-0 lead in the second inning of Game 1 with an RBI single from sophomore second baseman Jimmy Spanos and the first career home run off the bat of freshman shortstop Mike Marcinko. The Raiders tacked on their final three runs in the fourth with a Beloff double to right followed by a Spanos two-run double to left-center.

In Game 2, the Raiders used a bases-loaded wild pitch, a two-run double down the left field line from junior third baseman Cal Hogan and a Kulp RBI single to grab a 4-1 lead in the third.

A two-run double courtesy of junior center fielder Michael Douglas pushed the lead to 6-2 in the fourth before Shippensburg blew open the game with seven runs on five hits and an error in the fifth. Included in that frame were run-scoring singles from Spanos, Marcinko and McKolosky, a Douglas RBI triple and a Hogan sacrifice fly to shallow right to score Douglas.

SU will play a single nine-inning game on Tuesday at PSAC West opponent IUP beginning at 3 p.m. The Raiders will then finish their regular season and divisional schedule next weekend with a four-game set against Mansfield.