LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – The Shippensburg University baseball team swept Lock Haven for the second consecutive day to complete a four-game series sweep in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Divisional play on Saturday afternoon on a beautiful day from Watkins Field.
 
Shippensburg (16-16, 6-9 PSAC) took Game 1, 2-1, over Lock Haven (16-11, 8-8) behind another strong outing from redshirt-sophomore Zack Sims, who picked up his second win of the week and his sixth win of the year. The Raiders tallied 22 hits in the nightcap to take down the Bald Eagles, 21-3, in Game 2.
 
Sims threw 6.2 innings, giving up just one earned run on four hits while striking out five. Sims' six wins sit him atop the PSAC in that category. Junior Michael Hope came on to retire the final batter to get the save. Hope now has five saves on the year, also a mark that leads the conference.
 
Nine Raiders had multi-hit days at the plate. Juniors Tommy Baggett and Drew Bene finished with four hits on the day. Baggett went 4-for-5 with a home run, two doubles and five RBIs. Bene finished 4-for-6 with a double, two runs scored and one RBI.
 
Senior Nick Spangler and junior Cash Gladfelter both went 3-for-8 at the dish on Saturday, with Spangler recording a double and a RBI and Gladfelter homering for the second consecutive day while driving in two. Gladfelter finished the series 8-for-15 with two home runs, three doubles, a triple and seven RBIs.
 
Senior Dalton Hoiles, juniors Ty Painter, Jack Goertzen and Danny Johnson along with sophomore Jacob Pollock all recorded two hits on the day.
 
Shippensburg will return to action at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday when it hosts Millersville at Fairchild Field for a single seven-inning game to complete its four-game PSAC East series with the Marauders.
 
Game 1
 
Sims threw three shutout innings before the Raider offense spotted him a lead in fourth on a RBI-double from Baggett that scored Bene. SU would expand its lead in the fifth when Gladfelter belted a home run over the right-field wall on a 3-0 count to give the Raiders a 2-0 lead.
 
Sims kept Lock Haven off the board for 6.2 innings before the Bald Eagles scratched out a run to cut the lead in half. Hope entered the game for Sims and retired Keyshawn D'Orso via groundout to secure the series victory for the Raiders.
 
Game 2
 
The Raiders scored in six of their seven at-bats to rout the Bald Eagles, 21-3, to complete the four-game sweep. The Raiders plated five runs in the first on five hits to take an early lead.
 
Lock Haven scored twice in the bottom of the first to pull within three. SU would respond however and get those two runs back in the second to extend its lead to 7-2.
 
The Raiders added two runs in the third, seven runs in the fourth, two in the sixth and three in the seventh to down the Bald Eagles, 21-3.
 
Baggett paced the Raiders in Game 2, going 2-for-3 with a no-doubt home run to center while driving in three runs. He finished the series 5-for-10 with a home run, two doubles and six RBIs.
 
Gladfelter finished 2-for-5 in the nightcap with a double and a RBI. Painter and Johnson both came off the bench to grab two hits. Johnson delivered a bases-clearing double for three RBIs, while Painter scored twice.
 
Spangler finished 2-for-4 with a double and a RBI while Hoiles went 2-for-5 with a double and three RBIs.
 
On the mound, sophomore Jack Jenkens picked up the win on the mound in relief. Freshman Chris Horst came out of the bullpen in the fifth and was credited with a save by throwing three shutout innings of relief to complete the game while striking out four.