The Shippensburg University softball team split a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division doubleheader on Sunday in a tale of two games at Bloomsburg. The Raiders won Game 1, 4-1, while the Huskies won Game 2, 10-2 in six innings, at Jan Hutchinson Field.
 
Shippensburg (18-12, 4-2 PSAC East) totaled 13 hits in the doubleheader and drew eight walks. Eight of the nine Raider starters had at least one hit in the doubleheader, including three each from sophomore Taylor Myers and sophomore Maelynn Leber, who also had a double. Both Myers and Leber had two RBIs in Game 1.
 
Shippensburg will travel to Bowie State on Wednesday for a non-conference doubleheader at 2 p.m.
 
Game 1: Shippensburg 4, Bloomsburg 1
 
Bloomsburg (15-13, 1-3) struck right away in the bottom of the first against freshman Alicia Ball, starting out with a bunt single, error and walk to load the bases with nobody out. Undaunted, Ball induced an RBI-groundout and then struck out the next two batters to get out of the inning allowing just the one run.
 
The leadoff bunt single was the only hit of the game allowed by Ball, who went the distance in the circle for her seventh complete game of the season and her fifth straight win. She walked five and struck out seven.
 
The Raiders scored four times with two outs in the fourth inning to take the lead. Leber hit a two-run double to right field for the lead, and after a walk and a single, Myers hit a two-run single to make it 4-1.
 
Game 2: Bloomsburg 10, Shippensburg 2 (six innings)
 
Shippensburg had an early opportunity in the first inning, putting two runners in scoring position with nobody out after Myers reached on an error, senior Morgan DeFeo hit a bunt single and both runners moved up on a wild pitch. Freshman Katelyn Minney walked with one out to load the bases, but Husky pitcher Kelly Eberly struck out the side to escape the jam.
 
Bloomsburg used four hits and two Raider errors to take a 4-0 lead after one inning. A Nicolette Ray solo home run made it 5-0 in the second, and in the bottom of the third, Bloomsburg scored three more runs, scoring off a single, error and wild pitch.
 
Shippensburg got its two runs in the fourth inning when DeFeo was hit by pitch with the bases loaded and freshman Emma Mackulin scored on a wild pitch. Bloomsburg scored a single run in both the fifth and sixth inning, each on a wild pitch, to end the game via the eight-run mercy rule.
 
Five Raider pitchers combined to allow 11 hits and seven walks in Game 2 while recording just two strikeouts. Eberly got the victory for the Huskies, allowing two runs on five hits while walking three and striking out eight.