The Shippensburg University baseball team split its weekend series with No. 22 Millersville, winning Game 2 on Sunday for the second straight day. SU dropped the opener, 4-0, but won the nightcap, 4-1, to maintain third place in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division.
 
Shippensburg (18-18, 12-8 PSAC East) became the second team to earn a split against PSAC East front-running Millersville (28-8, 15-5), cranking out 11 hits on the day and getting complete-game pitching performances from sophomore Mark Curtis and junior Rich Michaud.
 
Curtis gave up an early home run to Marauder first baseman Dan Stoltzfus, who finished the series with round trippers in three straight games. He would settle down, finishing with a line of four runs on seven hits in six innings with three strikeouts over 86 pitches.
 
Michaud scattered four singles in seven innings, allowing a lone run in the first inning, while striking out four in an 83-pitch complete game. The four hits he allowed tie a season low for Millersville. Over Michaud's last 24.1 innings (six starts), Michaud has walked just two batters.
 
Down the stretch in Game 2, Michaud retired 12 straight batters until hitting a man with two outs in the seventh – an action he quickly erased with a fielder's choice to end the game.
 
Offensively, senior Cody Ezolt  contributed a key two-run single and sophomore Jake Kennedy hit his 15th home run of the season. Incredibly, Kennedy's 15 home runs are just third in the PSAC behind Seton Hill's Nick Sell (20) and IUP's Ryan Uhl (18). Last season, Ezolt and teammate Pat Kregeloh led the conference with nine home runs for the year.
 
Junior Austin Allison and senior Jimmy Spanos each had three hits on the day. Spanos had two hits in Game 2, including a double, and also was one of three Raiders to steal a base along with freshman Grant Hoover and redshirt-freshman Tyler Betz.
 
Sophomore Ryan McMillen had a hit in each game, finishing the weekend going 7-for-14 (.500) at the plate with a double, RBI and three runs scored while shifting defensively between third base and shortstop.
 
Shippensburg will hit the road Tuesday for a 3 p.m. crossover doubleheader at Slippery Rock. The SRU games are taking the place of the originally-scheduled Wilmington game, as the Wildcats will be facing West Chester in the Bill Giles Classic Championship at Citizens Bank Park.