The Shippensburg University softball team split a Saturday doubleheader at Catawba, posting a 4-3 comeback victory in extra innings in the opener before dropping the nightcap by an 8-4 score after the game was called in the fifth inning due to rain.
 
Shippensburg (3-2) trailed Catawba (4-4) in the opener, 3-0, through five innings. Senior Chloe Collins delivered a two-out, three-run home run in the sixth inning to tie the game and eventually send it into extra innings and the international tiebreaker.
 
In the top of the eighth, senior Tara Bicko singled home sophomore Kendall Geis with two outs to give the Raiders a 4-3 lead. All four of the SU runs in the opener were scored with two outs.
 
In the bottom half, the Indians successfully sacrificed its runner to third base, but junior Taryn Wilson countered with a strikeout and then induced a fielder's choice in which she threw home for the final out of the game.
 
Wilson pitched a complete game for the win, scattering five hits while striking out six. Collins, freshman Courtney Coy and freshman Abby Cunningham pitched in Game 2.
 
Quakertown alumni produced all three of the Raider RBIs in Game 2, as sophomore Meghan Klee ripped a two-run double and senior Maddie Mulhall delivered an RBI-single.
 
Bicko was an on-base machine on the day, reaching base six times. She was 2-for-3 with four walks, an RBI, a stolen base and two runs scored. Coy reached base three times and stole two bases.
 
Shippensburg will travel an hour west to Lenoir-Rhyne for a pair of Sunday games, facing the hosts along with the Tornado of King (Tennessee).