SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – Senior Austin Bartley tied the school single-season and career saves record while senior Pat Kregeloh and sophomore Marcus Shippey provided strong starting pitching performances as the Shippensburg University baseball team split its regular-season home finale doubleheader vs. Lock Haven on Senior Day from Fairchild Field.
 
The Raiders (27-17, 12-14 PSAC) dropped the opener 4-2 in nine innings before battling rain in the nightcap and grabbing a 3-0 shutout victory.
 
Shippey struck out a career-high nine and allowed just four hits in 6.2 innings of shutout ball as Bartley needed just two pitches to earn Game 2's final out for his ninth save of 2014 and the 17th of his career.
 
Kregeloh gave up zero earned runs in eight innings of work with six strikeouts in a 127-pitch Game 1 effort. Down 1-0 entering the bottom of the sixth, Shippensburg scored a pair of runs with a sacrifice fly off the bat of junior right fielder Austin Allison and an infield RBI single by freshman catcher Matt Osenbach.
 
Lock Haven (13-26, 5-21) scored the game-tying run in the top of the seventh on a Raider error on a potential game-ending double play before scoring the eventual game-winning runs in the top of the ninth on an RBI single and a wild pitch.
 
SU manufactured a run in the second inning of Game 2 after senior Cal Hogan led off with an infield single, stole second, advanced to third on a groundout and scored on an Osenbach two-out RBI single to left field.
 
Hogan then scored SU's next run in the fourth when he led off with a triple to center field and scored in the next at-bat with a single to right by senior Trent Bond, who started Game 2 at designated hitter and drove in his first career run on his fourth career hit. Bond would later score with two outs on an RBI double to left-center courtesy of sophomore shortstop Mike Marcinko.
 
Osenbach finished the day with three hits and two runs driven in from the No. 8 spot in the order while junior second baseman Jimmy Spanos also collected three hits. Senior center fielder Michael Douglas and Kregeloh each had a pair of hits in the opener while Hogan collected two hits and scored twice in the second game.
 
All six seniors – Bartley, Bond, Douglas, Hogan, Kregeloh and senior starting pitcher Shawn Patterson – played on Senior Day. Patterson, who earned the victory in Game 1 of Monday's home doubleheader sweep of Wilmington (Del.), made his first career at-bat with two outs in the bottom of the sixth in Friday's doubleheader. He took a ball for a strike before grounding out to the pitcher.
 
Friday's split with the Bald Eagles eliminated Shippensburg from PSAC Tournament contention. In the event of a three-way tie with East Stroudsburg and Kutztown for the fourth and final playoff spot in the PSAC East, Kutztown would hold the tiebreaker by virtue of a 5-3 record against the other two opponents (SU would be 4-4, ESU would be 3-5).
 
Shippensburg travels to Lock Haven tomorrow for a 1 p.m. regular-season finale doubleheader.