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SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – Shippensburg University scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning Sunday afternoon to nip visiting Slippery Rock University in a nine-inning battle of nationally-ranked NCAA Division II Atlantic Region baseball teams.
With the win, the 13th-ranked Red Raiders improved their season record to 9-2 and won the three-game weekend series by a 2-1 margin.
SRU, which was ranked 18th in last Tuesday's National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association national poll, suffered its second consecutive loss after recording wins in its first eight outings this spring.
The Rock won the opening game of the weekend series vs. Shippensburg by a 9-0 score behind a three-hit shutout pitched by junior right-hander
Lou Trivino. Shippensburg won Saturday's second game by an 8-0 score before claiming the “rubber game” Sunday.
Junior right fielder
Brandon Myers (pictured) smacked his first home run of the season, a solo shot in the top of the second inning that accounted for the game's first run, and added a sixth-inning sacrifice fly to finish Sunday's game with two RBIs and lead a seven-hit Rock offensive attack.
Junior left fielder
Graeme Zaparzynski had a two-out double in the fifth inning to account for SRU's only other extra-base hit. Sophomore third baseman
Jake Nogalo picked up the other Rock RBI with an infield single in the sixth inning.
Sophomore right-hander
Kyle Schneider was SRU's starting pitcher. He allowed three earned runs on three hits, struck out one and walked three in six innings.
Sophomore southpaw
Anton Constantino relieved Schneider and allowed the winning run, an earned tally, and two hits in his only inning of work. Constantino was tagged with the loss in his first decision of the season.
Junior right-hander
John Kovalik retired Shippensburg in order in the bottom of the eighth, his only inning of mound duty Sunday.
The Rock are idle until Friday, when they open their annual spring-break trip to Florida with a 4 p.m. doubleheader Friday vs. Wayne State of Michigan at Chain O'Lakes Park in Winter Haven.
SRU will play seven games in six days in the Sunshine State before returning home to open its Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference-Western Division schedule with a March 23 doubleheader at Lock Haven University.
The Rock home opener is scheduled for Sunday, March 24. SRU will close out its four-game season series vs. Lock Haven with a 1 p.m. doubleheader at Jack Critchfield Park.
