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BEL AIR, Md. – The Shippensburg University baseball team got two more outstanding outings from its starting pitchers on a chilly but sunny Sunday evening and put together some timely hitting to defeat IUP in a conference crossover doubleheader played at the Harford Community College Sports Complex, edging the Crimson Hawks by scores of 5-2 and 3-1.

Shippensburg (7-3) got a complete-game pitching effort in the opener from senior Pat Kregeloh, who allowed two earned runs on five hits while striking out three to notch his first win of the season. In Game 2, junior Nick Massetti was masterful in his first start of the season, improving to 3-0 by allowing just one run on three hits in six innings and striking out four batters.

Through 10 games this season, Raider starting pitchers have allowed two earned runs or less in eight contests. The SU defense, which turned two more double plays in Game 1 (10 in 10 games this season), has committed just four errors in 10 games and boasts a sterling .987 fielding percentage for the season.

Senior Michael Douglas was SU's premier hitter at the plate in Sunday's doubleheader, going 5-for-7 with three doubles, an RBI, two runs and a stolen base. Douglas is one of four Raiders hitting over .300 through the season's first 10 games.

Kregeloh was one of four Raiders with multiple hits on the day and joined Douglas as the only SU players to nab a hit in each game. He extended his hitting streak to five games.

SU's 5-2 win in the opener marked its only game through 10 contests this season decided by more than two runs. SU is 4-0 in two-run games and has two wins in one-run games. All three of Shippensburg's losses this season have come by just one run.

The Raiders are scheduled to host Le Moyne for a four-game series next weekend that will begin with a 4 p.m. game on Friday at Fairchild Field.

Game 1: Shippensburg 5, IUP 2

IUP (3-5) got its only runs of the opening game in the top of the first inning, as cleanup hitter Ryan Uhl smacked a two-run homer over the center-field fence. The round tripper was the only extra-base hit allowed on Sunday by Kregeloh, who scattered just three hits over his final six innings of work.

SU immediately answered with three runs in the bottom of the first inning. Douglas singled and stole second before senior Cal Hogan walked. Sophomore Mike Marcinko, who made a pair of dazzling defensive plays at shortstop on Sunday, singled to drive home Douglas.

Kregeloh then singled home Hogan, and three batters later, junior Cody Ezolt aired one into no man's land in right field that plated Marcinko.

SU would add one run in both the fifth and sixth innings. In the fifth, Douglas drilled a shot that one-hopped the center-field wall and eventually came around to score on a wild pitch. Junior Austin Allison reached base to lead off the sixth and scored on another double by Douglas.

Kregeloh ended Game 1 by freezing IUP catcher Jonathan O'Neill on a called third strike. Douglas was 3-for-4 with two doubles, an RBI, a stolen base and two runs, while Ezolt finished the game 2-for-3.

Game 2: Shippensburg 3, IUP 1

IUP again took the lead in Game 2 as it scored the only run of the first three innings. The Crimson Hawks got runners on first and third base in the third inning and plated a run on a fielder's choice with one out. No other runs would come across home plate for IUP, however, as the Crimson Hawks stranded nine runners in the game.

SU got all three of its runs in the fourth inning. A leadoff walk to Marcinko was followed by a wild pitch and a Kregeloh single – putting runners on the corners with nobody out. Junior Jimmy Spanos drilled a double to left that drove home Marcinko. An Ezolt sacrifice fly and a sacrifice fly by Allison rounded out the scoring.

Spanos went 2-for-3 in the nightcap, marking the seventh time in 10 starts this season that he has had multiple hits in a game.

Freshman Josh Kutchey rebounded from a tough outing on Saturday to notch his second save of the season in Game 2 by throwing a scoreless seventh inning and striking out two.