SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – The Shippensburg University baseball team posted a split of its Friday doubleheader with the College of Staten Island, as the Dolphins won the opener 1-0 before the Raiders claimed the nightcap 13-2 in non-conference action at sunny Fairchild Field.
 
Shippensburg (11-5) allowed just seven total singles and no extra-base hits in the doubleheader but only came away with one victory, as it was on the short end of a pitcher's duel in Game 1. Graduate Jaxon Dalena retired the first 11 batters he faced and struck out a season-high 10 in 6.2 innings.  
 
Staten Island (4-14) manufactured a run in the top of the seventh with leadoff walk, a sacrifice bunt and an RBI-single up the middle by right fielder Jack Kehoe. His older brother, starting pitcher Ryan Kehoe, struck out five and worked around four walks and two singles to earn the shutout. He induced a double-play grounder for the game's final outs.
 
The Dolphins opened Game 2 with a two-run single in the top of the first but the Raiders immediately answered with three runs in the bottom of the first and built a 6-2 lead after three innings.
 
Redshirt-senior Cameron Goble worked around early trouble to throw five solid innings, striking out five while scattering four singles and two walks. He improved his record to 2-2.
 
After SU loaded the bases in the bottom of the first on an error and two singles, sophomore Ty Sherman and freshman Thomas Cano-Piszel drew back-to-back walks to even the score. A double-play grounder put the Raiders up 3-2.
 
In a three-run third, senior Gio Calamia doubled and junior AJ Wenrich brought him home with a mammoth two-run homer to left-center field. After a Sherman single and a Cano-Piszel double, freshman Will Oates singled home one but Jack Kehoe threw out the second run at home plate.
 
Calamia singled home a run in the fourth to preface a five-run fifth in which the first five Raiders reached. Oates snuck a ball past the shortstop for a two-run single and freshman Kyle Ausgotharp doubled off the wall to make it 10-2. Freshman Evan Shoffler and senior Carter Hinds each brought home a run on a groundout.
 
Freshman Drew Brown recorded his first career RBI with a pinch-hit sacrifice fly in the sixth. Freshmen Thomas Davenport and Jacob Dennis put up zeroes to finish the game; Dennis struck out the side in the seventh to end it.
 
Friday's games marked the first-ever meeting between the two schools. Staten Island re-classified from NCAA Division III to NCAA Division II in 2019-20 and is a member of the East Coast Conference (ECC).
 
Shippensburg and Staten Island will play another twinbill tomorrow. First pitch is at 1 p.m. at Fairchild Field.