Junior Rich Michaud tossed seven shutout innings Sunday as the Shippensburg University baseball team slugged its way past Belmont Abbey, 14-0, in the weekend-series finale on a sunny, 65-degree afternoon at the Abbey Yard in Belmont, N.C.
 
Shippensburg (1-2) slammed three more home runs Sunday, bringing its season total to nine through three games. SU hit 30 last year in 46 games; that total is its most in one season under ninth-year head coach Matt Jones.
 
Belmont Abbey (2-1) committed three errors, while the Raiders had none. For the weekend series, Belmont Abbey had 11 errors compared to just three by the Raiders.
 
Michaud, making his 10th career start, struck out a career-high eight batters and allowed five hits, walking none. His seven innings tied his career high. The performance came one day after SU pitchers allowed a total of 12 walks and 22 runs in a doubleheader.
 
Sophomore catcher Jake Kennedy continued his slugging ways Sunday. He was 2-for-3 with two home runs, three RBIs, three runs and two walks. All four of Kennedy's hits this weekend were home runs, and he has nine RBIs through the first three games. Last year, Kennedy had 19 hits, 12 of which went for extra bases (10 doubles, two home runs).
 
SU opened the scoring with a five-run fourth inning. Freshman Dalton Hoiles singled for the second time in two at-bats to drive home Kennedy. Freshman Grant Hoover then had an infield single to score junior Austin Allison before junior Mike Marcinko cleared the bases with a three-run homer. All five runs came with two outs.
 
Marcinko has three home runs in 12 at-bats through three games. He had just two home runs in 311 at-bats over the course of his first two seasons.
 
The Raiders added four runs in the fifth, two in the sixth and seventh and one in the eighth.
 
Hoiles finished 2-for-3 with two runs and an RBI while Hoover had three RBIs, two runs and a walk. Allison was 2-for-3 with two runs. Senior Cody Ezolt went 2-for-5 and scored one run.
 
Sophomore Ryan McMillen was 3-for-4 with a walk, run and RBI. He was 5-for-12 this weekend with two doubles, two RBI, three walks and three runs scored.
 
Freshman Gabe Mosser pitched two scoreless innings in relief; he allowed two hits and struck out two in his collegiate debut.
 
SU batters totaled nine walks, its most since registering nine walks on March 29, 2013 at Kutztown.
 
Shippensburg travels next weekend to Barton College for a three-game series with the Bulldogs in Wilson, N.C.