The Shippensburg University baseball team exploded for a season-high 21 runs on 23 hits to win Game 2 and take the weekend series against Eckerd College Saturday afternoon in St. Petersburg, Florida, 21-3.
Shippensburg (9-4) batted around three times in the seven-inning contest, plating four runs in the second, six in the fourth and six in the fifth. Several Raiders had career days at the dish, including junior
Mike Heckman, who totaled a career-high five hits – going 5-for-5 with three runs scored.
Freshman
Evan Shoffler reached base five times, posting a career-high three hits and a pair of walks, and drove in a career-high four runs. The SU second baseman smashed a two-run single in SU's six-run fourth, then laced a two-run double with the bases loaded in the seventh that was just inches away from being a grand slam.
Senior
Gio Calamia stroked a pair of triples as part of a career-high matching four-hit day. He accounted for five total runs, scoring twice and driving in three.
Junior
AJ Wenrich finished 4-for-6 with a double and two RBIs.
Graduate
Carter Arbuthnot reached base in all three of his plate appearances (1-for-1, two walks), including a two-run single in the top of the second frame.
Freshman
Kyle Ausgotharp launched a pinch-hit, three run bomb during the Raiders' six-run fifth.
Sophomore
Erby Weller singled and scored a run during a pinch hit appearance in the seventh.
Eckerd (4-16) totaled just two hits – two singles from Reid Lisle – against the combination of junior
J.T. Weaver and graduate
Eric Bohenek.
Weaver started and allowed just one hit over five innings. He allowed just two unearned runs to cross, the result of his own throwing error in the bottom of the first. He finished with a season-high six strikeouts and two walks.
Bohenek surrendered one run on one hit in two innings of relief.
Shippensburg will wrap up its three-game weekend set against Eckerd in Florida Sunday at noon.
