The Shippensburg University baseball team salvaged a weekend split with Lock Haven on Saturday by winning the second game of a road Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) doubleheader, 3-1, after the home-standing Bald Eagles won the opener by the same score.
 
Shippensburg (11-15, 3-5 PSAC East) got a complete game three-hitter in Game 2 from sophomore Gabe Mosser, who walked just one and struck out five in an 87-pitch effort. Mosser was perfect through the first eight batters of the game before LHU's No. 9 hitter rocked a long fly ball to right field that ended up being scored as a home run. He yielded just three base-runners the rest of the way.
 
It was the fourth complete game of Mosser's young career; his longest outing of the season prior to Saturday was 3.2 innings.
 
Senior Mike Marcinko went 2-for-4 in the game with an RBI-single, stolen base and a run. Sophomore Grant Hoover was 2-for-4 with an RBI-single, while freshman Tommy Baggett opened the scoring with an RBI-single in the first.
 
Sophomore Dalton Hoiles had two hits, while freshman Jack Goertzen was 2-for-2 with a walk.
 
SU turned two exquisite double plays in the game in support of Mosser. In the fourth, freshman Cash Gladfelter scooped a grounder in which he threw to Marcinko at second base for the first out, and the pivot went back to Mosser covering first base to turn the twin killing.
 
One inning later, junior Ryan McMillen back-handed a hard-hit ball in the hole at third base and fired to second base, where sophomore Nick Spangler made an excellent turn and threw to Gladfelter for the double play.
 
In Game 1, senior Rich Michaud started and allowed three runs on five hits in three-plus innings of work. All three runs came with two outs in the third inning. Lock Haven got a walk and a single, and then another walk on a very close 3-2 pitch that loaded the bases. Matt Lahn then cleared the bases with a double for LHU's only runs of the game.
 
Sophomore Andy Crum entered in the fourth with runners on second and third and nobody out but stranded both men in place. Crum induced a comebacker, a pop-up to second base and got a strikeout to escape the damage. He threw three shutout innings of relief, allowing two hits, and striking out two. In two outings this week, Crum threw six shutout innings – allowing four hits and striking out four.
 
Marcinko led off Game 1 with a double down the left-field line, but it was the only hit for the Raiders until Baggett singled with two outs in the seventh inning. LHU starter Jacob Belinda threw a complete-game with 10 strikeouts. Baggett would score SU's lone run after twice advancing on wild pitches and eventually scoring on an error.
 
Shippensburg will host Shepherd at 3 p.m. Tuesday in a nine-inning, non-conference game from Fairchild Field.