CLERMONT, Fla. – The Shippensburg University softball team split a pair of games Sunday at the National Training Center, falling 6-0 to a perennially-strong Minnesota State Mankato squad before defeating Urbana in a wild 10-5 game that lasted more than two-and-a-half hours.
 
Shippensburg (3-1) smacked 19 hits in its victory over Urbana but was shutout against Mankato – its first time held without a run during a Florida trip since 2012.

Of the team's 11 runs it allowed on the day, only three were earned by the opponents.
 
Several Raiders continued to stay hot at the plate. Junior Taylor Pattillo was 4-for-6 with two doubles, a sacrifice fly, and three RBIs. In four games this weekend, Pattillo is 9-for-13 (.692).
 
Senior Liz Parkins started at right field against Urbana and went 4-for-4 with two doubles, an RBI and a run. She is 6-for-8 with three doubles in her two starts this season.
 
Sophomore Jenny Peel was the designated player against Mankato and came in at third base against Urbana – she was 4-for-6 on the day with a double. Senior Tyler Thompson had three singles and a stolen base.
 
Junior Briana Giovenco was 3-for-5 with a double and an RBI – through four games she is .538 (7-for-13) at the plate with four extra-base hits and six RBIs.
 
Senior Makenzie Lynn took the loss in the opener, allowing two earned runs in a complete game while striking out three. In Game 2, sophomore Casey Thompson got the start and pitched 2.2 innings and yielded three unearned runs.
 
Junior Quincy Lewis got the win by pitching 2.1 innings of relief, and freshman Chloe Collins got the final six outs in her collegiate debut.
 
In the opener against Mankato (6-6), SU had a couple chances to score but could not scratch a run across the plate. The Raiders got a walk and an error to put two on in the third inning but ran into a double play. To start the fourth, Giovenco hit an infield single and Pattillo doubled but both were left on base.
 
In Game 2, Shippensburg and Urbana (1-2) combined for 15 runs, 27 hits, eight errors and 24 left on base in a marathon of a game that included seven different pitchers. There was not a 1-2-3 inning in the game.
 
SU opened the scoring in the first with back-to-back doubles by Giovenco and Pattillo. The Raiders took a 5-0 lead after two innings after a sacrifice fly from Collins, an RBI-single by freshman Macy Luck, an infield single by Giovenco and a sacrifice fly by Pattillo.
 
Urbana scored three times in the third – all unearned – and scraped across another in the fourth to make the score 5-4 after four innings. SU benefitted from an interference call to make it 6-4 in the fifth, and Lewis worked out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the bottom half by allowing just one unearned run due to a high throw.
 
SU put the game away in the sixth with four runs. Thompson scored the first run by stealing home on a double steal with feshman Taylor Dorman. Pattillo singled home Dorman, and following a line-out double play, Parkins and Collins produced RBI-singles.
 
Senior Jessie Trammell finished the Urbana game 2-for-5 at the plate with three runs and a steal. Parkins was 4-for-4, while Pattillo and Peel were 3-for-3.
 
Shippensburg will have two days off before resuming play Wednesday with a 9 a.m. game against Southern Connecticut State and a 1 p.m. game with Southern Indiana.