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The Shippensburg University baseball team maintained its playoff push on Friday afternoon despite a PSAC Eastern Division doubleheader split with Mansfield at Shaute Field. SU convincingly won the opener, 11-2, before dropping Game 2 by a 7-5 score.

Shippensburg (27-19, 10-12 PSAC East) remains tied for fourth place in the division with West Chester (20-23-1, 10-12 PSAC East) entering the regular season's final day. SU holds the tiebreaker over the Golden Rams by virtue of winning three of four games in the season series.

Mansfield (22-26, 6-16 PSAC East) will look to play spoiler on Saturday as it has already been eliminated from playoff contention and will be concluding its season with the twinbill.

The Raiders cranked out 25 hits in Friday's doubleheader – five each for junior Pat Kregeloh and sophomore Jimmy Spanos – and four by both senior Cody Kulp and junior Michael Douglas.

Douglas had three doubles in Game 2, while Kulp homered in each game. Kulp is the first Raider to hit a home run in both games of a doubleheader since Jesse Smith did it on April 23, 2010 against West Chester pitchers Jordan Lehman and Fred Breidenbach.

Kregeloh got the win on the mound in Game 1, allowing two runs and scattering six singles to improve to 8-3. It was his team-leading fourth complete game of the season.

SU gave up three unearned runs in Game 2. Junior Shawn Patterson fell to 5-4, allowing six runs (four earned) in 4.1 innings. Junior Austin Bartley went the final 1.2 innings, allowing an unearned run on two hits.

Saturday's doubleheader at Fairchild Field begins at 1 p.m.

Game 1: Shippensburg 11, Mansfield 2

Four Raiders – Kregeloh, Kulp, Spanos and junior Cal Hogan, went 3-for-4 in the opener.

SU took a quick 4-0 lead in its first at-bat thanks to RBI-singles by Kregeloh, Kulp and Spanos. Kulp eventually scored the fourth run of the inning on an error.

In the fifth, Kregeloh and Kulp each hit solo home runs that gave SU a 6-1 lead.

The Raiders blew the game open in the sixth with five more runs. Hogan started off the scoring burst with an RBI-single before Kregeloh plated Douglas on an infield hit. Kulp then doubled home Hogan, and Spanos followed with a two-run double.

Mansfield's best threat came in the second inning when it loaded the bases with three consecutive singles to start the inning. Kregeloh escaped the jam allowing just one run by inducing a foul out, a sacrifice fly and an infield popup.

Game 2: Mansfield 7, Shippensburg 5

Shippensburg again took the lead in the first inning with a leadoff double by Douglas and a one-out, two-run homer by Kulp. The Mountaineers countered with an unearned run in the bottom of the inning and two more runs in the second to take a 3-2 lead.

In the fifth, Kulp and Kregeloh drew one-out walks to chase the Mountaineer starting pitcher. Spanos then singled home Kulp to tie the score at 3-3 but a double play then ended the inning.

Mansfield's decisive frame was the bottom of the fifth. A two-run homer by cleanup batter Joey Andrews put the Mounties up 5-3. With two outs, additional runs would score on a fielding error and a single up the middle that padded the home team's lead to four runs.

SU had one more rally in the sixth, as Douglas doubled home senior David McKolosky and freshman Mike Marcinko, but the Raiders could not ultimately plate the tying run.