WEST CHESTER, Pa. – The Shippensburg University baseball team was swept in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division doubleheader Friday afternoon by No. 22 West Chester on a sunny day from Serpico Stadium.
 
Shippensburg (11-16, 2-9 PSAC) fell in Game 1 by a score of 5-4 and West Chester (17-7, 6-4) used a walk-off hit in the bottom of the ninth inning to win Game 2, 7-6. Friday's setbacks are the fifth and sixth by just one run suffered by the Raiders in conference play this season.
 
Junior Drew Bene finished the day 4-for-8 with two doubles and three RBIs. Junior Jack Goertzen had a pair of big run-scoring hits in each game, including a three-run homer in the nightcap. Senior Dalton Hoiles collected two hits on the day, including two doubles and two RBIs.
 
Sophomore Zack Sims started on the mound in Game 1 for SU, throwing 5.2 innings and tallying five strikeouts.
 
Redshirt-freshman Anthony Felitti came out of the bullpen in Game 2 for the Raiders, throwing 1.1 scoreless innings. Felitti has yet to give up an earned run this season.
 
Junior Michael Hope threw 4.2 stellar innings out of relief in the nightcap to keep SU in the game well into the extra frames. Hope struck out four Golden Rams in his longest outing of the season.
 
Shippensburg will return to action Tuesday at 3 p.m. when it hosts Shepherd in a single nine-inning game at Fairchild Field.
 
Game 1
 
After three innings of play West Chester held a 3-0 lead, but SU would claw its way back into the game with two two-run doubles from Goertzen and Hoiles. Goertzen's double came in the fourth to make it 3-2, and Hoiles' double came in the fifth and gave the Raiders a 4-3 lead.
 
West Chester tied the game in the fifth and eventually re-took the lead for good in the sixth to secure a 5-4 win.
 
Game 2
 
SU jumped out to an early lead in the nightcap, plating two runs on two hits in the top of the first. Senior Nick Spangler (Spring Grove, Pa./Spring Grove) led the game off with a double to center and then Hoiles was hit by a pitch to put runners on first and second with nobody out.
 
Bene then doubled to the right centerfield gap scoring Spangler and Hoiles to give SU the early 2-0 lead. The Raiders added to their lead the very next inning, scoring four runs on two hits with the biggest hit coming off the bat of Goertzen, who hit a no doubt, three-run home run over the right field wall to make it 6-0 SU.
 
West Chester would not go away however, and scored two runs in the second and four runs in the third to tie the game at six heading into the fourth. Both teams held each other scoreless over the next five innings of play until West Chester got a walk-off single from Drew Jarmuz to down the Raiders, 7-6 in nine innings.