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SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – A Game 2 walk-off two-run home run by freshman catcher Jake Kennedy on Saturday afternoon gave the No. 22-ranked Shippensburg University baseball team a 5-3 win and a doubleheader sweep of Le Moyne from Fairchild Field and head coach Matt Jones his 200th career victory at the helm of the Raiders. SU won the opener, 9-0.

Shippensburg (10-3) totaled 16 hits on the day and broke out for a season-high nine runs in the opener despite just seven hits. The SU pitching staff continued to shut down the Le Moyne (5-11) lineup, recording its second-straight shutout in the opener and not giving up a run until the fifth inning of Game 2. SU began the weekend with 20 consecutive scoreless innings against the Dolphins.

Kennedy's walk-off came on a 1-1 pitch in the bottom of the seventh and followed a leadoff infield single by freshman designated hitter Isaac Stern. The home run gave Kennedy four RBIs on the day and was the third Raider home run as senior first baseman Pat Kregeloh drove in six total runs, including a three-run homer in Game 1 and a two-run shot in the nightcap. Kregeloh now has five home runs on the season – two more than any other player in the PSAC.

Stern went 3-for-6 on the day and scored a team-high three runs while sophomore shortstop Mike Marcinko and junior second baseman Jimmy Spanos each collected three hits. Spanos scored twice while Marcinko also added two runs and hit a two-run double down the left field line in the opener.

Freshman starting pitcher Mark Curtis made his collegiate home debut and went six scoreless innings in the opener, giving up four hits and striking out five, including a strikeout of the side in the second inning. Sophomore Thomas Swartz pitched the seventh.

The reigning PSAC East Pitcher of the Week, junior Nick Massetti left Game 2 on the hook for the victory after a four-hit effort in five innings. Massetti worked out of several jams, forcing Le Moyne to leave a total of nine runners on base in his five innings of work – two men on in the first, the bases loaded in the third, runners at the corners in the fourth and two men on in the fifth.

Freshman Josh Kutchey and senior Austin Bartley each pitched an inning of relief and gave up two hits. Despite giving up a lead-off, game-tying solo home run in the top of the seventh, Bartley earned his first win of the season.

The twinbill sweep gives Jones a 200-192 record in his eighth season at Shippensburg and a 348-318-2 overall record in 15 seasons as a head coach.

The Raiders and Dolphins will finish their four-game weekend series with a nine-inning single game tomorrow at 1 p.m. from Fairchild Field.