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QUAKERTOWN, Pa. – The Shippensburg University softball team ripped 14 hits in its 2018 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championships debut on Wednesday but could not overcome a couple of big innings by Seton Hill, as the Raiders fell to the Griffins, 10-7, on a sunny and warm day at Veterans Park.
 
Shippensburg (21-18) will play IUP at noon Thursday in an elimination game, while Seton Hill (22-13) will play Lock Haven at 3 p.m. Thursday in a winner's bracket game.
 
The Raiders and Griffins combined for 27 hits in the contest, including four doubles for the Raiders. Four SU players had multiple hits in the game.
 
Shippensburg, the visiting team, opened the scoring in the first after senior Tara Bicko led off with a single and later scored on a two-out single by senior Chloe Collins. The Raiders maintained that 1-0 lead into the bottom of the third, when the Griffins scored four times in a frame that included a pair of SU errors.
 
In the fourth, Shippensburg got a run back on an RBI-double by Bicko, but the Griffins scored twice more in the bottom half on a two-out, two-run single by Devyn Terry. Seton Hill made it 7-2 in the fifth on a two-out bloop single by Brooke Bower. The Griffins scored six of their 10 runs on the day with two outs.
 
The Raider rally happened in the sixth, as SU scored four times with two outs to get within a run. Senior Macy Luck led off with a double that went over the head of the center fielder, and two batters later, sophomore Kayla Bonawitz singled her home.
 
After an infield boot and subsequent errant throw kept the inning alive, Collins snuck a ball into right field to plate another run. Sophomore Meghan Klee, playing in her hometown, then came to bat and ripped a two-run double into the right-center field gap that made the score 7-6.
 
In the bottom of the sixth, Ashley Perillo knocked a three-run home run to left-center with two outs that proved to be too much to overcome. SU manufactured a run in the seventh and got the tying run to the plate before the final out was recorded.
 
Luck was 3-for-3 at the plate with two runs scored. Collins was 3-for-4 with two RBIs. Klee also walked twice in addition to her two-run double. Bicko was 2-for-5 atop the order, while freshman Katie Wise was 2-for-4 with a run scored.
 
Junior Taryn Wilson took the loss in the circle. She walked four and struck out seven in a complete-game effort.