SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – The Shippensburg University softball team got a pair of complete-game victories from junior Alicia Ball and freshman Madalyn Dyer on Tuesday as it dispatched Lock Haven, 3-0 and 3-1, in a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division doubleheader at Robb Field.
 
Shippensburg (16-6, 5-3) hit .370 as a team, ripped seven extra-base hits and struck out just three times all day while Lock Haven (6-14, 2-6) managed just 12 hits total – all singles – and struck out 16 times.
 
The breakout performer Tuesday was freshman Reagan Bauman, who made her first two career starts in left field. Bauman's only career hit entering the day was a pinch-hit RBI-double at Shepherd one week ago. She finished the day 4-for-6 with a solo home run, two doubles, and an RBI-single.
 
Ball improved to 9-1 with her first seven-inning shutout of the season and the fourth of her career. She had to negotiate out of bases-loaded, one-out jams in both the fifth and seventh innings but did so successfully. Overall, she scattered eight singles, walked just one and struck out seven.
 
Dyer threw her first career complete game and improved her record to 4-0. She struck out a career-high nine batters, walked just one, and yielded just four singles. The only run against her came in the third inning, as an 11-pitch walk to Haley Lestician started the inning; Lestician cleverly stole second with two outs to preface an RBI-single by All-PSAC left fielder Delaney Good.
 
The score was tied 1-1 in the bottom of the fifth in Game 2 when Bauman ripped a ball under the third baseman's glove for an RBI-single to give SU the lead. Bauman hit her first collegiate home run to lead off the second inning to open the scoring.
 
The Raiders plated an insurance run in the sixth with an RBI-single by senior Taylor Myers, who continued her torrid stretch at the plate with a 4-for-8 day that included an RBI-triple in Game 1.
 
Junior Katelyn Minney was 4-for-6 on the day with a double, two runs, and a stolen base. First-year outfielder Emily Lafferty earned the Game 2 start at designated player and singled twice and stole a base; Lafferty was 1-for-9 in her career at the plate entering Tuesday.
 
SU scored all three of its Game 1 runs in the first two innings, seizing the early momentum for Ball with an RBI-double by freshman Brie Wilmot, an RBI-single by sophomore Emilee Sullivan and Myers' RBI-triple.
 
Lock Haven's Faith Persing, who shut out Kutztown yesterday, took the loss in Game 2. Persing allowed three runs on 11 hits, walking one without a strikeout.
 
Shippensburg travels to Holy Family on Thursday for a 2 p.m. doubleheader which will be played at Bensalem High School.