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SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – Sophomore Taylor Pattillo delivered a game-tying and walk-off single in consecutive at-bats on a sunny, breezy Monday afternoon to cap off a doubleheader sweep for the No. 17 Shippensburg University softball team over PSAC East opponent Bloomsburg, winning by scores of 2-0 and 6-5.
 
Shippensburg (17-3, 3-1 PSAC East) notched its first doubleheader sweep of Bloomsburg (10-7, 2-2 PSAC East) since 2007 on the strength of a five-hit, three-steal day by senior Hilary Lyons, the first career home run by junior Liz Parkins and three RBIs from Pattillo.
 
Senior Emily Estep won both games, throwing nine shutout innings with nine strikeouts to improve to 9-0. She threw a five-hit shutout in the opener with eight strikeouts before adding two scoreless innings of relief in the nightcap.
 
SU scored a run in the first inning of the opener after a one-out single from Lyons, who stole second and then scored on a two-out throwing error by the Bloomsburg shortstop. The Raiders added an insurance run in the sixth after a leadoff single by junior Maddie Justice eventually led to an RBI-groundout from Pattillo that plated sophomore pinch runner Julie Cramer.
 
Estep struck out six-in-a-row in the opener and did not allow a runner to reach third base in the victory.
 
The Raiders got two runs in the first inning of Game 2 off Sarah Bertoni, as sophomore Briana Giovenco led off with a single and eventually came around to score on a wild pitch. With one out, Parkins sent a 3-2 pitch to the opposite field over the left-field fence for her first collegiate home run and her seventh career extra-base hit.
 
Bertoni kept the Raiders off the scoreboard for the next four innings, allowing the Huskies to make a comeback against SU junior starter Makenzie Lynn. BU got one in the third inning after leadoff double by Kayla McHale eventually led to a run. Bertoni doubled to lead off the sixth to kick start a four-run inning for Bloomsburg, highlighted by a two-run homer from Chrissy Belko.
 
Undaunted, SU scored three in the bottom of the sixth to tie the score. Giovenco doubled before Lyons singled and stole second base. Parkins hit a sacrifice fly to plate Giovenco before junior Taylor Weisman ripped a first-pitch double into the right-center field gap that made the score 5-4. With two outs, Pattillo blooped a single into left field that scored pinch runner Cramer to tie the score.
 
The Raiders had a runner thrown out at home plate to end the seventh inning, sending the game into extra innings, but SU would not be denied in the eighth inning. Parkins led off the eighth with a single – SU's sixth leadoff hit of the doubleheader – and was replaced on the base paths by senior Kirstin McClune. A Weisman bunt moved McClune into scoring position, and after a hit batter, Pattillo returned a pitch up the middle for the walk-off win.
 
Five Raiders had multiple hits on the day, including two for freshman Jenny Peel. Cramer, Lyons and Giovenco each scored twice.
 
Shippensburg will travel to face West Chester at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow as the Raiders continue PSAC East play.