The Shippensburg University baseball team went deep five times to win the final game of its weekend series and to claim a three-game sweep of Eckerd College Sunday afternoon at the Turley Athletic Complex in Saint Petersburg, Florida, 9-7.
Shippensburg (10-4) got a pair of solo home runs from sophomore
Mason Morris. Sophomore
Ty Sherman, senior
Gio Calamia and junior
AJ Wenrich also went deep for the Raiders in the win.
Eckerd (4-17) led three times in the back-and-forth contest, earning an initial 3-0 lead, and taking one run leads in the sixth and seventh innings.
Solo shots from Sherman and Morris helped Shippensburg cut into that initial deficit, and Sherman added a sixth-inning RBI single to even the score, 3-3.
After Eckerd regained the lead, Calamia and Wenrich delivered back-to-back jacks during a three-run rally to regain the lead in the top half of the seventh, 6-5.
Morris slammed his second longball of the day to tie the game in the eighth. Wenrich brought home freshman
Evan Shoffler on a sacrifice fly later in the frame for the go-ahead run, and graduate
Carter Arbuthnot tacked on an insurance run with a ninth-inning RBI single.
All five Raider home runs were solo shots. It marked the second five-home run game for SU this season (Feb. 8 at Catawba). Prior to this season, Shippensburg hadn't hit five home runs in a game since Feb. 18, 2017.
Morris and Sherman posted new career-high totals in hits and RBI, finishing an identical 3-for-5 with two RBI and two runs scored. Shoffler (3-for-5) had his second three-hit game in as many days, while Calamia finished 2-for-4 with two RBI.
The Raiders used five different pitchers Sunday. Sophomore
Conner Barto and redshirt-Senior
Cameron Goble combined for eight strikeouts in 5.2 innings pitched.
Junior
Jack Robinson fanned a pair during a scoreless eighth, and junior
Brenden Anderson retired the Tritons in the ninth to earn the save.
Sophomore
Bryce Amos picked up the win in relief.
Tritons starter Max Folkman, who was called into action on short notice, held the Raiders to just two runs in five frames. Eckerd lead off hitter Luis Garrido went 3-for-5 with a run scored.
Next up, Shippensburg returns home for a doubleheader Friday against Staten Island at Fairchild Field. First pitch for Game 1 is set for 1 p.m.
