Shippensburg Splits Doubleheader with Eckerd

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The Shippensburg University baseball team split a doubleheader with Eckerd College on Saturday afternoon, dropping the first game 8-2, before winning the second game, 5-4, in eight innings.
 
Although Shippensburg (9-3) scored the first two runs in the first game, a five-run second inning by the Trojans (6-13) put the game out of reach for the Red Raiders.
 
Junior Nathan Starner (Aspers, Pa./Biglerville) earned the loss, and goes 2-1 on the year. Sophomore Stephen Slatcoff (Windber, Pa./Windber) and senior Drew Kyle (Hanover, Pa./Southwestern) pitched two innings each in the contest.
 
Senior Chad Stecker (Saylorsburg, Pa./Pleasant Valley) led Shippensburg at the plate, going 2-for-4 in the loss.
 
In game two, Eckerd held a 4-3 lead before a triple from sophomore Scott Goss (Johnstown, Pa./Westmont Hilltop) and a subsequent Eckerd error sent Goss home to tie the game, 4-4.
 
Goss scored the game-winning run in the top of the eighth inning for Shippensburg while sophomore Brian Boylan (Tannersville, Pa./Pocono Mt.) held off the Trojans in the bottom of the inning for his second win of the year.
 
Also pitching for the Red Raiders in game two was sophomore Ross Buckwalter (Ephrata, Pa./Ephrata) and sophomore Nathan Jones (Lititz, Pa./Warwick).
 
Boylan and Goss each went 2-for-4 in the game and junior Eric Perlozzo (Cumberland, Md./Bishop Walsh) went 1-for-3 with two RBI.
 
Shippensburg concludes a four-game series with Eckerd on Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m.

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