The No. 18 Shippensburg University baseball team got three hits Tuesday from senior Michael Douglas, senior Pat Kregeloh and junior Cody Ezolt and had three pitchers combine for a two-hit shutout in a 4-0 road victory at Pittsburgh-Johnstown on a windy afternoon at Point Stadium.
 
Shippensburg (22-8) earned its second win of the season over UPJ (11-19) on the strength of a 12-hit attack and five solid innings from senior pitcher Shawn Patterson, who has now picked up both of his victories this season over the Mountain Cats. In 10 innings (two starts) this season against UPJ, Patterson has allowed one earned run on six hits with seven strikeouts.
 
In relief of Patterson, sophomores Kyle McClintock and Thomas Swartz each threw 18 pitches in a pair of scoreless innings to wrap up Shippensburg's fourth shutout of the season.
 
Douglas broke out of a 1-for-9 stretch with doubles in each of his first two at-bats and nearly had a third double but was thrown out attempting to stretch a single in the sixth inning. He also had a walk and an RBI.
 
Ezolt singled in the second, doubled in the third and doubled home sophomore Mike Marcinko in the fifth. He now has a 10-game hitting streak, and during that stretch is batting .563 (18-for-32) with four homers, seven doubles, nine RBIs and 10 runs scored.
 
Kregeloh slammed his eight home run of the season, a solo shot to left field in the seventh, to move him into a tie with Jay Kipp (1989-92) for third place on SU's all-time list home runs list (24). Kregeloh has reached base in 16 consecutive games and now has six multiple-RBI efforts this season.
 
Freshman Vince Careghini singled, walked, stole a base and scored a run. Fellow freshman Matt Osenbach got the start at catcher and hit a double in the eighth inning. Marcinko was 1-for-4 with a walk.
 
Shippensburg will host Millersville at 1 p.m. Friday in a doubleheader from Fairchild Field. The weekend series will pit two of the Top 3 teams in the PSAC Eastern Division in a home-and-home series.