SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – The Shippensburg University baseball team celebrated Senior Day with a sweep of a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division doubleheader against Kutztown, 4-2 and 8-5, Thursday at Fairchild Field.
 
Shippensburg (27-20, 14-12 PSAC East) clinched a place in next week's PSAC Tournament with the Game 1 victory, as the combination of graduate Jaxon Dalena and junior Jack Robinson held Kutztown (13-32, 6-20) to just three hits. In Game 2, the SU bats came to life, pounding out 14 hits and eight runs.
 
Senior Gio Calamia was 4-for-7 with three doubles in the twinbill. He had two RBIs and two runs scored.
 
Junior AJ Wenrich had three hits, three RBI and two runs scored. His day was highlighted by a moonshot two-run home run early in the nightcap.
 
Robinson saved both games of the doubleheader, tossing a 1-2-3 top of the seventh inning in both contests. He has now registered a save in four straight PSAC East games and ranks third in the conference with seven saves this season. His seven saves are also tied for fourth-most in single-season school history.
 
The Raiders honored the teams' seven seniors between games – graduate Carter Arbuthnot, graduate Eric Bohenek, Calamia, Dalena, redshirt-senior Cameron Goble, senior Bryce Herb and senior Carter Hinds.
 
The Raiders wrap up their regular season schedule with a road doubleheader at Kutztown Friday. First pitch is slated for 1 p.m.
 
Game 1: Shippensburg 4, Kutztown 2
 
Dalena was perfect through three innings in the opener and was charged with just two unearned runs on three hits and struck out seven in six total innings of work. He now ranks sixth in single-season school history with 94 strikeouts.
 
Meanwhile, the SU offense hung a four-spot on the visitors in the home half of the second. Sophomore Ty Sherman got the scoring started with an RBI double, and back-to-back two-out singles from Hinds and Calamia pushed two more runs across.
 
Hinds and Calamia then executed a double steal, with Hinds swiping home to give the Raiders a 4-0 advantage.
 
Dalena responded to the cushion by striking out the side in the third. The perfect game ended on a fourth inning error that led to two unearned runs, courtesy of a Jared Ferguson two-out double.
 
The SU righty pitched around baserunners in the fifth and sixth before making way for Robinson to close it out in the seventh.
 
Calamia went 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI.
 
Game 2: Shippensburg 8, Kutztown 5
 
All nine Raiders in the starting lineup recorded a hit and five different players had multi-hit efforts in the nightcap.
 
The Raiders erased an early 1-0 deficit with a two-out RBI single off the bat of junior Mike Heckman in the second, and Wenrich followed with a titanic two-run blast to straightaway left during a three-run home half of the third.
 
Fourth inning knocks from Calamia and Sherman extended the SU lead to four runs, 6-2.
 
An ill-timed error an inning later led to three unearned runs for the Golden Bears to make it a one-run game, 6-5, but the SU offense answered with two more runs in the sixth on RBI hits from Wenrich and Herb.
 
Junior J.T. Weaver made his first start since April 13 and allowed three hits (one run) and fanned five in three innings.
 
Goble pitched a scoreless fourth to earn the win. Sophomore Bryce Amos and Robinson also authored scoreless innings in relief.
 
Calamia, Heckman, sophomore Mason Morris, freshman Evan Shoffler and Wenrich each registered two hits for Shippensburg.
 
Wenrich drove in three and scored twice. Calamia smacked two doubles and scored a pair of runs.