The Shippensburg University softball team held Bowie State to just five singles on Wednesday as it swept the host Bulldogs, 8-0 (six innings) and 6-0, at the BSU Softball Field.  
 
Shippensburg (20-12) recorded 14 runs on 18 hits over the doubleheader, including eight extra-base hits, and did not commit an error. Sophomore Morgan Lindsay went 3-for-6, including a triple and two RBIs, while senior Morgan DeFeo went 3-for-7, including a triple, a double and an RBI.
 
Sophomore Alyssa Nehlen went 2-for-5 with a triple and two RBIs. Fellow sophomore Maelynn Leber had two hits and two RBIs. Junior Hannah Marsteller had three hits, including a three-run home run in Game 2.
 
Freshman Alicia Ball and sophomore Emma Flattery each threw a complete-game shutout in the circle and combined for 17 strikeouts.
 
Shippensburg will host Millersville at 2 p.m. Friday for a key divisional doubleheader at Robb Field.
 
Game 1: Shippensburg 8, Bowie State 0 (6 innings)
 
Shippensburg opened the scoring with three runs in the third inning. An RBI-double by Lindsay to left field and a two-run single by Leber to right center gave the Raiders a 3-0 lead. The Raiders scored three more runs in the fifth inning, two on a triple by Nehlen, and another on an RBI-single by freshman Morgan Brumbaugh.
 
In the sixth inning, the top of the batting lineup came through. Sophomore Taylor Myers drew a walk and advanced to second base on a passed ball. DeFeo hit an RBI-triple for a 7-0 lead, and an RBI for freshman Katelyn Minney on an error by the second basemen plated DeFeo and led to the run-rule victory.
 
Ball, the reigning PSAC East Pitcher of the Week, threw a complete game, her sixth-in-a-row (all wins) and her eighth overall this season. It was her second shutout of the season. She took no-hitter into the fifth inning and allowed just two singles and a walk while recording eight strikeouts.

Game 2: Shippensburg 6, Bowie State 0
 
The Raiders opened with a run in the first on a Marsteller single. Marsteller stole second and scored on an RBI-single to right field by Lindsay.
 
SU kept the hitting momentum going in the second inning with four more runs. Nehlen drew a walk and freshman Emma Mackulin reached on an error by the shortstop to have two Raiders on base with one out. Myers hit an RBI-single to right-center to score Nehlen. With two outs, Marsteller hit a three-run home run to right-center to give SU a 5-0 lead.
 
The Raiders added one more run in the fourth inning on a passed ball.

Flattery started in the circle for the Raiders and threw a complete game. She allowed just three hits, all singles, and had nine strikeouts – one shy of her career high.
 
Bowie State (14-18-1) advanced a runner to third base in the bottom of the third, but that was the closest it would come to scoring.