SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – The Shippensburg University baseball team received a pair of splendid starting pitching performances Friday from junior Conner Barto and freshman Jonah Mayer and slugged four home runs in a doubleheader sweep of No. 29 Millersville, defeating the Marauders by scores of 8-2 and 4-3 in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division action at sunny and warm Fairchild Field.
 
Shippensburg (19-10, 6-4 PSAC East) held Millersville (20-9, 5-5) to just nine hits on the day and only one of those went for extra bases. It was the Raiders' first doubleheader sweep of the Marauders since April 20, 2024 at Cooper Park; and marked the first SU sweep of the Marauders at Fairchild Field since May 6, 2017.
 
Barto took a no-hitter into the sixth inning of Game 1. He issued a leadoff walk in the top of the seventh before being replaced, having allowed just two singles, three walks and two hit batters while striking out five. Barto improved to 6-1 on the season.
 
Mayer ran his record to 3-1 with five strong innings, allowing just four hits and one walk while striking out three. Sophomore Jacob Dennis notched a hold with a scoreless sixth and senior Jack Robinson picked up his sixth save with a 1-2-3 top of the seventh.
 
Sophomores Thomas Cano-Piszel and Kyle Ausgotharp homered in the opener while Brady Harbach and AJ Wenrich went deep in the nightcap.
 
Wenrich's homer, his team-leading sixth of the season, proved to be the game-winner. He finished the doubleheader with three hits, two RBIs and two runs scored.
 
Cano-Piszel registered a total of four hits, four RBIs and three runs scored in the doubleheader, including a 3-for-3 outing with seven total bases in Game 1.
 
Junior Jake Pope, who manned the leadoff spot for just the second and third times this season, stroked three hits in six at-bats and scored a pair of runs.
 
The Raiders complete the series at 1 p.m. tomorrow at Millersville.
 
Game 1: SHIP 8, VILLE 2
 
After a deliberately-paced start through the first three innings, Shippensburg broke through in the fourth, with Cano-Piszel providing the key at-bat. With one out, Wenrich slammed a 3-0 pitch into left field for a single while junior Ty Sherman hit a dribbler on the next pitch that went about 10 feet for a textbook infield single.
 
On a 2-1 pitch, Cano-Piszel laced an opposite-field liner that landed on the hill in right field, electrifying the Raiders and giving them a 3-0 lead. Three pitches later, Ausgotharp unleashed fury onto a ball that soared well over the center-field fence for a no-doubter that made it 4-0.
 
Pope and sophomore Will Oates began a four-run fifth with back-to-back singles, which led to sophomore Evan Shoffler sacrificing them into scoring position.
 
After an intentional walk to Wenrich, Sherman hit a sacrifice fly to left that made it 5-0. Three pitches later, Cano-Piszel sent a 2-0 pitch down the left-field line for an RBI-double. Harbach then sent an opposite-field shot that evaded the diving right fielder and went for a two-run triple.
 
The Marauders cranked out back-to-back singles to start the sixth, but Barto induced a groundout, struck out Brady Ebbert in an eight-pitch at-bat, and then got a flyout to make it six scoreless frames.
 
Millersville scored twice in the seventh; the first on an RBI-single and the second on a double-play grounder. One run was charged to Barto, the other to freshman Nathan Lake.
 
Alex Kuehn took the loss for the visitors, allowing eight runs on 10 hits in 4.2 innings.
 

BASEBALL: Thomas Cano-Piszel with a 3 run HR to put the Raiders on the board!!

SHIP 3-0 pic.twitter.com/gLnBHNyTDt

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BASEBALL: Kyle Ausgotharp with a HR to continue the lead!!

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BASEBALL: Ty Sherman with an RBI to bring home Pope!!

SHIP 5-0 pic.twitter.com/aKyTV6RhOd

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BASEBALL: Thomas Cano-Piszel to continue this lead with an RBI double!!

SHIP 6-0 pic.twitter.com/BwXAqp3bzA

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GAME 2: SHIP 4, VILLE 3
 
The Raiders took an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first thanks to a high sky. With Pope on first after a leadoff single and one out in the inning, Wenrich launched a fly ball to center field that was lost in the sun; it fell for an RBI-double.
 
Christo Hunsicker manufactured a run for the visitors in the second. Hunsicker earned a two-out walk (the only walk of the day against Mayer), stole second, advanced to third on a throwing error on the play, and then scored on a passed ball.
 
A two-out rally in the top of the fourth gave Millersville its only lead of the doubleheader. A well-executed bunt by Xavier Smith went for a single, as he beat the throw from Mayer by a step. Hunsicker then hit a rocket off Harbach's glove at third that put two runners on.
 
Shane Laux brought both runners home as he looped a ball into right field that fell in front of Ausgotharp, who made a late, ill-fated diving attempt to catch it. It went for a two-run triple that made it 3-1 in favor of the Marauders.
 
SU started out the home half of the fourth with Cano-Piszel scorching the first pitch of the inning into left field for a single. Two batters later, Harbach muscled a ball that snuck over the left-field fence for a game-tying two-run shot.
 
With two outs in the bottom of the fifth, Wenrich launched the decisive blast to left field to put the Raiders back on top.
 
Eli Simonton took the loss for the visitors, allowing four runs on eight hits in five innings while striking out five.
 

BASEBALL: A 💣 from Brady Harbach to tie it up in the 4th!! pic.twitter.com/aKohxy0uZ0

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BASEBALL: AJ Wenrich with a home run to put the Raiders ahead!!

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