Gallery: (3-7-2026) 2026 Baseball vs. Lincoln (Pa.) (DH) 3.7
SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – The Shippensburg University baseball team posted its second sweep of Lincoln in as many days on Saturday, defeating the Lions by scores of 15-1 and 5-2 in action at Fairchild Field.
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Shippensburg (10-4) cranked out 23 more hits Saturday, giving the Raiders a total of 50 hits over the course of the four-game series. Six SU players had multiple hits on the day, with the team compiling nine extra-base hits overall.
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The star of the day was senior
AJ Wenrich, who went 5-for-6 with a home run, two doubles, a triple, seven RBIs, two walks and four runs scored. Wenrich was a single shy of a cycle in Game 1, going 3-for-3 with three of the extra-base hits and all seven of his RBIs.
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Overall, in the four-game series, Wenrich reached base in 12 of his 14 plate appearances. He was 8-for-10 (.800) with a home run, two doubles, two triples, three walks, nine RBIs, seven runs, a stolen base and a hit-by-pitch.
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Shippensburg used a 13-hit, seven-walk attack to plate its 15 runs in the opener. Freshman
Caden Lloyd went 2-for-4 with four RBIs, including a three-run homer that landed just to the right of the batter's eye and bounced off the edge of the hill beyond the center-field fence.
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In his three games played in the series, Lloyd went 5-for-11 (.455) at the plate with three home runs, eight RBIs and four runs scored.
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Junior catcher
Mason Morris reached base in four of his five plate appearances in the opener, delivering a single while also walking twice and being hit once. Junior
Jake Pope walked in both of his plate appearances off the bench.
Drew Brown delivered a pinch-hit two-run single.
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Redshirt-sophomore
Kaleb Maksimik struck out five in five innings for the Game 1 win, scattering a run on three hits without walking a batter. Senior
Brenden Anderson threw two perfect innings in relief, striking out two.
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Lincoln (2-5) garnered its only lead of the series in Game 2, taking a 1-0 advantage through three innings. The Lions threatened in the top of the first, loading the bases on three infield singles, but freshman
Jonah Mayer induced a double-play grounder to eliminate the threat.
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Back-to-back singles with one out in the third put runners on the corners. Sophomore catcher
Will Oates then threw out a Lion attempting to steal second base for the second out, but Jaden Greenidge singled home the runner from third to give the visitors a 1-0 lead.
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Lion left-hander Solomon McKinney, who was making his first collegiate start, held SU scoreless through the first three innings. He worked around two singles in the first and got a double-play grounder from his defense in the bottom of the third.
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Wenrich led off the bottom of the fourth inning with a double to deep right-centerfield to kickstart the decisive frame for the Raiders. After a flyout advanced Wenrich to third, sophomore
Thomas Cano-Piszel nudged a ball up the middle that went for an infield single and evened the score.
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Two pitches later, Oates doubled home Cano-Piszel to give SU the lead. Redshirt-junior
Tony Falvo then singled home Oates. The Raiders added runs later in the frame on a wild pitch and an infield single by junior
Ty Sherman.
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Mayer went the necessary four innings in Game 2 for the win, scattering six singles and walking just one while striking out five. Junior
Bryce Amos worked the fifth; freshman
Nathan Lake struck out a batter in 1-2-3 sixth inning, and senior
Jack Robinson retired all three men he faced in the seventh for his fourth save of the season.
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Falvo delivered two hits in each game; he finished the doubleheader 4-for-7 with two doubles and an RBI. Redshirt-sophomore
Brady Harbach reached base five times Saturday, going 3-for-5 with a walk and a hit-by-pitch.
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Shippensburg returns to action next weekend with a home-and-home series with Lock Haven. The Raiders will host the Bald Eagles at 1 p.m. Saturday at Fairchild Field.
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