The Shippensburg University baseball team dropped both games of a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division doubleheader at No. 15 East Stroudsburg Monday afternoon at Creekview Park, 7-5 and 5-1.
 
Shippensburg (20-16, 7-9 PSAC East) got off to a fast start in the twinbill, getting back-to-back solo homers in the first inning from senior Gio Calamia and junior AJ Wenrich, but it wasn't enough.
 
Graduate Carter Arbuthnot also had a good day at the dish, totaling four hits in seven at bats.
 
Senior Bryce Herb registered two hits and drove in a pair of runs.
 
Chaise Albus went 6-for-7 with seven RBIs in the doubleheader for East Stroudsburg (28-7, 13-3).
 
The Raiders return to action Friday with a road doubleheader at Mansfield. First pitch of Game 1 is scheduled for 1 p.m.
 
Game 1: East Stroudsburg 7, Shippensburg 5
 
Shippensburg took a quick 2-0 lead on Calamia and Wenrich's back-to-back longballs, but the story of the game was ESU's Albus.
 
East Stroudsburg plated seven runs over its next four turns, with six of those runs driven in by Albus (4-for-4, double). Dennis Pierce reached base three times (2-for-3, walk) for the Warriors and scored three runs.
 
The Raiders made it competitive late, scoring a sixth inning run on an RBI single from sophomore Mason Morris and putting the tying run in scoring position during a one-run rally in the top of the seventh – only to leave the bases loaded.
 
Sophomore Bryce Amos started and pitched the first four innings. Freshman Thomas Davenport fired two scoreless innings of relief.
 
Game 2: East Stroudsburg 5, Shippensburg 1
 
East Stroudsburg starting pitcher Peyton Brannock stifled the SU offense in Game 2, scattering six hits and striking out six in 6.1 innings.
 
Brannock took a shutout into the seventh, but a single from Arbuthnot and a walk from freshman Will Oates (Hagerstown, Md./St. Maria Goretti) spelled the end of the day for the Warrior lefty.
 
Freshman Evan Shoffler greeted an ESU reliever with a single, loading the bases with only one out. Herb followed with a sacrifice fly to make it 5-1, but that was all the Raiders would get.
 
Arbuthnot and Shoffler both went 2-for-3 in the nightcap.
 
Graduate Eric Bohenek started on the mound for Shippensburg and was charged with two earned runs over three frames. Junior Brenden Anderson (2 IP, 1 ER) and junior Jack Robinson (1 IP, 0 ER) pitched well out of the SU 'pen.

BASEBALL: Gio with the early spark at ESU⚡

His 1st inning solo 💣gives Ship a 1-0 lead!

📺: https://t.co/pqO4iYwkuN pic.twitter.com/vwRTZQsmOh

— Shippensburg University Raiders (@ShipURaiders) April 14, 2025

BASEBALL: Raiders go back-to-back🚨

AJ launches a solo 💣 to make it 2-0! pic.twitter.com/Ar4GIrOuzQ

— Shippensburg University Raiders (@ShipURaiders) April 14, 2025

BASEBALL: SU turns a slick inning-ending double play in Game 2!🚫🚫

ESU 3, SHIP 0 END 4 pic.twitter.com/wT6prDRohN

— Shippensburg University Raiders (@ShipURaiders) April 14, 2025