The Shippensburg University softball team posted a non-conference doubleheader split at Pitt-Johnstown on Friday, losing Game 1, 6-0, and winning Game 2, 10-0, in action at the V.E. Erickson Complex.
 
Shippensburg (11-5) totaled 22 hits, including eight that went for extra bases, and drew two walks. The Raiders struck out just five times, and five Raiders finished with multiple hits.
 
Junior Hannah Marsteller was 5-of-7 with a home run, two doubles, a walk and two RBIs to raise her season batting average to .600. Freshman Katelyn Minney had two hits, including a three-run homer in the seventh inning of Game 2, and four RBIs. Fellow freshman Emma Mackulin had two singles and two RBIs.
 
Shippensburg will be back in action on Sunday for a doubleheader at IUP with the first pitch at 1 p.m.
 
Game 1: UPJ 6, Shippensburg 0
 
Shippensburg never got going in the first game, and Pitt-Johnstown opened the scoring with a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. In the bottom of the fifth, UPJ scored four runs to clinch the victory.
 
Freshman Alicia Ball started in the circle for the Raiders. She threw two innings, allowed five hits, and struck out four. Minney came in as the relief pitcher and threw 4.0 innings, allowed four runs and struck out six. 
 
Game 2: Shippensburg 10, UPJ 0
 
Sophomore Emma Flattery threw her second shutout of the week in the circle for the Raiders, allowing just three hits, walking none and striking out one in the complete game.
 
The Raiders took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first after a single from Mackulin that scored senior Morgan DeFeo. SU increased its lead in the third after a two-run homer by Marsteller and to 4-0 in the fourth on a bases-loaded walk by Minney.
 
The Raider lead grew further on an RBI-single by sophomore Taylor Myers in the fifth and RBI-singles in the sixth by Mackulin and sophomore Maelynn Leber. In the top of the seventh, Minney capped off the night with a three-run homer.
 
Myers was 4-for-5 out of the leadoff spot and had five hits on the day. Marsteller was 3-for-4 with a walk and also finished the day with five hits.