SALISBURY, N.C. – The Shippensburg University baseball team could not maintain an early lead and dropped a road game at Catawba, 11-3, on a wet and dreary Saturday from Newman Park.
 
Shippensburg (0-2) led 3-0 after five and a half innings of play, but Catawba scored 11 runs over the sixth, seventh and eighth innings to defeat the Raiders. 
 
Senior Andy Crum started on the bump for SU, pitching five scoreless innings, surrendering just three hits while striking out five.
 
Senior Grant Hoover led the Raiders offensively with a team-high three hits while also drawing a walk. Hoover was the only Raider to record a multi-hit day.
 
Four other Raiders recorded a hit, including senior Nick Spangler, juniors Cash Gladfelter and Ty Painter and freshman Scout Knotts. Knotts's sixth-inning double marked his first collegiate hit.
 
Five Raiders made appearances out of the bullpen: redshirt-freshman Aaron Cleveland, sophomores Zach Amisano and Jack Jenkens, freshman Chris Horst and junior Michael Hope.
 
Catawba (3-8) got a home run and six RBIs from leadoff batter Luke Setzer along. The Indians worked 12 walks on the day.
 
Shippensburg will wrap up its three-game series with Catawba Sunday at noon from Newman Park.