Gallery: (5-1-2025) 2025 Softball vs. Bloomsburg (PSACs)
QUAKERTOWN, Pa. – The Shippensburg University softball team dropped a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Tournament elimination game against Eastern Division No. 4 seed Bloomsburg on Wednesday by a score of 5-1 in action at sunny Veterans Park.
Shippensburg (31-20) and Bloomsburg (31-18) each managed a lot of baserunners but combined for just one run until the sixth inning.
SU managed six hits and four walks but stranded nine runners, while the Huskies cranked out 12 hits and drew three walks and two hit by pitches while leaving 13 on base.
Junior
Rilee Ehrlacher and sophomore
Brie Wilmot each had two hits. Senior
Aryanna Briddell had a sacrifice bunt and two walks – the second of which was with the bases loaded and resulted in an RBI.
Senior
Alicia Ball started in the circle for the Raiders, pitching five innings and striking out seven batters. Her fourth strikeout, recorded to start the bottom of the fourth, made her the sixth player in school history to eclipse 500 career strikeouts.
The Huskies got on the board early, using a walk, single, a hit by pitch to load the bases with two outs in the bottom of the first inning. Emma Little hit a rocket that brought home Sarah Yamrick for a one-run lead that stayed for the majority of the game. Ball got a strikeout to strand the bases loaded.
Ball worked out a bases-loaded jam in the second inning and stranded two runners in the third, fourth and fifth. SU got two runners on in the third, fourth and fifth as well but could not score.
Shippensburg tied it in the sixth, loading the bases with one out on a leadoff single from Wilmot, an Ehrlacher double and a one-out walk to freshman
Gianna Cimino. Briddell then fell behind 0-2 but drew four straight balls to earn a bases-loaded walk.
Senior
Katelyn Minney then came within inches of hitting an opposite-field grand slam but the ball traveled just foul down the left-field line. Minney struck out, and a popup by junior
Caitlyn Martell left the bases loaded.
The Huskies surged in the bottom of the sixth. Bloomsburg chased Ball with back-to-back singles to start the inning. Freshman
Dani Hayward entered the circle and Taylor Kranzley dropped down a bunt in which the defense was unable to field cleanly, loading the bases with nobody out.
Allie Wenrich then slammed a ball off the wall that ended up as an RBI-single, as an alert Raider relay got Kranzley out on the basepaths after the Huskies had two runners in the same baseline.
Emma Littlem in a 2-2 count, fouled off three in a row before knocking the eight pitch in her at bat over the left-center fence for a three-run home run.
SU now awaits the NCAA Division II Selection Show, scheduled for Monday morning, to see if it qualifies for the NCAA Atlantic Regional Tournament for the fourth straight year.
