Gallery: (3-6-2026) 2026 Baseball vs. Lincoln (DH) 3.6
SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – The Shippensburg University baseball team recorded a sweep of Lincoln on Friday, beginning its weekend with victories of 21-3 and 4-1 in action from a damp, grey and foggy Fairchild Field.
Shippensburg (8-4) unloaded 20 hits in Game 1 and totaled 27 hits on the day, with nine players collecting multiple hits overall. Game 2 was called after completing the Top of the 6th inning due to darkness.
Freshmen
Caden Lloyd and
Lucas Ream ripped the cover off the ball in Game 1, combining for six hits, six runs and seven RBIs. Lloyd's performance was especially memorable, as he hit a two-run, inside-the-park home run through the fog and into the left-center field gap in the second inning before launching a "more traditional" two-run homer in the fourth inning onto the hill in right field.
Ream had a two-run triple and an RBI-double, while senior
Mike Heckman had three hits of his own, including a two-run double. SU had a seven-run fourth inning and a seven-run fifth inning; highlighted by a three-run homer by redshirt-junior
Tony Falvo.
Junior
Conner Barto threw five innings for the win in Game 1, allowing just two hits and two walks while striking out eight. Through the first four innings, the only hit he had allowed was a hard-luck triple with two outs in the first inning on a ball hit high in the air to center field that was lost in the fog.
The Lions loaded the bases in the fifth on a pair of walks and a hit batter and got their runs courtesy of a three-run double by Sean Stoney on a full-count pitch with two outs. Senior
Franklin Muendel threw two shutout innings to close the opener and struck out four.
Game 2 was a pitcher's duel between redshirt-sophomore
Brady Kain and Lion senior Jaden Greenidge. Kain threw five innings for the win, allowing a run on just three hits and a walk while striking out five. The only blemish against him was a one-out RBI-single in his final inning.
Greenidge, who played third base in the opener, commanded the ball well and allowed just three hits through his first four innings of work. One of those hits was a loud home run off the bat of junior
Mason Morris that raced over the left-center field fence to start the bottom of the third.
With the score 1-1 entering the bottom of the fifth, SU capitalized on some errant play in the field. A ball hit into center field by Morris found a Bermuda triangle, as three Lion fielders converged but none of them could make the play – resulting in a double. Two batters later, sophomore
Evan Shoffler fouled off four consecutive pitches before serving a 2-2 pitch into left-center field for a go-ahead RBI-single.
Redshirt-sophomore
Brady Harbach then roped an RBI-double into the left-field corner and senior
AJ Wenrich hit a ball deep to left field that Soloman Devard could not catch up to, resulting in an RBI-triple.
Senior
Jack Robinson pitched a scoreless sixth to end it, striking out the final batter.
The two teams will be back at it tomorrow at Fairchild Field; the start time of Saturday's doubleheader has been pushed up to 11:30 a.m.
