Shippensburg University Athletics

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – The Shippensburg University baseball team was defeated by East Stroudsburg on Friday by scores of 5-2 and 17-0 in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division action at a sunny and warm Fairchild Field.
 
Shippensburg (23-14, 10-8 PSAC East) could not slow the hot bats in the middle of the East Stroudsburg (25-12, 12-6) order. The quartet of Troy Davis, Walker Zampella, Cole Serfass and Parker Frey combined for 18 of ESU's 24 hits on the day and drove in 14 of their 22 runs.
 
Mason Morris and Thomas Cano-Piszel finished the doubleheader with four hits. Both men enter Saturday having reached base in 21 consecutive games. Cano-Piszel has collected at least one hit in 20 of the last 21 games.
 
ESU has now won five-in-a-row over the Raiders and 14 of the last 15 meetings overall dating back to the 2022 season.
 
Shippensburg will wrap up the weekend series at 1 p.m. tomorrow at Creekview Park in Stroudsburg.
 
Game 1: East Stroudsburg 5, Shippensburg 2
 
East Stroudsburg first baseman Parker Frey drove in three runs in the first three innings to tip the scales in favor of the Warriors in Game 1.
 
Frey, ESU's No. 5-hitter, followed a Troy Davis RBI triple with a two-out RBI hit in the top of the first to give the visitors a quick 2-0 lead.
 
A good piece of hitting from Frey – pulling his hands back and waiting on a breaking pitch – resulted in a two-run moonshot to right and a 5-1 ESU advantage in the third inning.
 
That score held until the home half of the sixth when the Raiders rallied, putting four straight batters on base against the ESU starting pitcher Ryan Dewees.
 
With Ty Sherman on third with one out after a leadoff walk and an opposite-field single by Cano-Piszel, Brady Harbach hit a nubber that evaded pitcher Ryan Dewees and scored Sherman.
 
A pinch-hit single by Caden Lloyd put two runners on base, but Warrior reliever Cole Dymek induced back-to-back groundouts to escape further damage.
 
Cano-Piszel contributed a solo home run in the second inning for the other Raider run with a screaming line drive to the opposite field that raced over the right-field fence.
 
Dewees picked up the win after holding a formidable SU lineup to just two runs on eight hits in 5.1 innings. He finished with six strikeouts.
 
Dymek, who helped the Warriors get out of the sixth-inning jam, pitched around a leadoff single from Morris to finish the game and earn the save. Morris was 3-for-4 with a double, while Cano-Piszel was 3-for-3.
 
Shippensburg starter Conner Barto was charged with five runs in five innings pitched. He struck out three and walked two. Dom DiBlasi pitched 1.2 scoreless innings of relief.
 

BASEBALL: Thomas Cano-Piszel starts off the bottom of the second with a 💣 pic.twitter.com/xbVF5du3kZ

— Shippensburg University Raiders (@ShipURaiders) April 17, 2026

 
Game 2: East Stroudsburg 17, Shippensburg 0
 
East Stroudsburg raced out to a six-run lead after the first two innings and then put up crooked numbers in the fourth, fifth and sixth inning to achieve a convincing victory. The Warriors had six extra-base hits, including two home runs, drew seven walks, and stole eight bases in the win.
 
Morris hit a double in the bottom of the first – giving him a leadoff double in both games of Friday's doubleheader – but that was SU's only extra-base hit of the nightcap.
 
Will Oates, who singled in Game 1, was kept off the bases in Game 2 – which ended his streak of games reaching base at 20-in-a-row.
 
Sophomore Kyle Ausgotharp, the starting center fielder in Game 1, made his first collegiate appearance as a pitcher in the nightcap. He retired six of the seven batters he faced to help save the bullpen for Saturday.
 
Ausgotharp – SU's fifth pitcher of the game – did not allow a hit or a walk and struck out three. His only blemish was one hit batter in the seventh.
 
Jonah Mayer got the start but lasted just two innings. Brenden Anderson, Bryce Amos and Franklin Muendel combined to get the next nine outs out of the bullpen.
 
Davis, who hit an RBI-triple in the first inning of Game 1, was 5-for-5 with a grand slam, six RBIs and five runs scored for the visitors. Zampella had a home run, three RBIs and four runs scored.

BASEBALL: In Game 2 on Friday, center fielder Kyle Ausgotharp made his first collegiate pitching appearance and struck out three batters over the course of two hitless innings of relief. pic.twitter.com/aq4ZnKvU7o

— Shippensburg University Raiders (@ShipURaiders) April 18, 2026