WEST CHESTER, Pa. – Senior Jake Kennedy broke the school record for career home runs Sunday as the Shippensburg University baseball team split the final two games of its Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) series against No. 25 West Chester on a warm and sunny day from Serpico Stadium.
 
Shippensburg (9-13-1, 4-4 PSAC East) took Game 1 from West Chester (14-5, 6-2) by a score of 10-1, while West Chester took Game 2 by a score of 2-1 in eight innings.
 
The highlight of the day came from senior first baseman Kennedy, who in the top of the second inning of Game 1, hit a two-out grand slam over the left-field wall to become SU's home run king. The home run capped off a seven-run second inning for the Raiders.
 
Kennedy has now hit 34 home runs in his career breaking Matt DeSanto's mark of 33 set from 2000-03.
 
Junior Nick Spangler and sophomores Jack Goertzen and Cash Gladfelter each went 2-for-3 in Game 1. Gladfelter finished the day 3-for-7 with two runs scored and one RBI.
 
Sophomore Drew Bene was 3-for-7 on the day with one run scored. Over the two games, SU pounded out 17 hits – with 10 Raiders collecting at least one hit over the 15 innings.
 
Senior Mark Curtis started Game 1 for the Raiders and collected the win with freshman Zach Amisano coming on in relief in the seventh. Junior Grant Hoover started Game 2 for the Raiders with sophomore Michael Hope pitching out of the bullpen.
 
Shippensburg will return to action Tuesday at 2 p.m. when it hosts Shepherd for a doubleheader at Fairchild Field.
 
Game 1
 
Shippensburg used a seven-run second inning to put away West Chester early in Game 1. SU batted around in the second inning, sending 12 guys to the dish.
 
After a Spangler single put runners on first and second with one out, Hoover singled through the right side to plate Bene and give the Raiders a 1-0 lead. Two batters later and with two outs, senior Ryan McMillen lined a double to right center field to drive in two and extend the Raider lead to 3-0.
 
After a Gladfelter single and a walk by sophomore Ty Painter, the Raiders had the bases loaded with Kennedy due up. The senior from Coatesville took a 3-2 offering over the left-field fence to extend the Raider lead to 7-0. In total, SU plated seven runs on seven hits in the second inning alone.
 
The Raiders added three runs over the next five innings to seal a 10-1 win. Goertzen hit his third home run of the season for SU in the sixth.
 
Curtis turned in a quality line, pitching six innings and yielding just one earned run while striking out four. Amisano pitched a clean seventh to close out the game for SU.

Game 2
 
The Raiders trailed West Chester 1-0 in the fifth until Gladfelter singled to left, scoring sophomore Tommy Baggett. The game remained tied until the eighth when the Golden Rams walked off on a Drew Jarmuz RBI single.
 
Hoover pitched 5.2 quality innings, giving up just six hits and one earned run while striking out two. Hope relieved him in the sixth and struck out three Golden Rams over his 1.2 innings of work.