Shippensburg Baseball Drops Second-Straight, 1-0

SAINT LEO, Fla. - Senior Lee McClintock (Carlisle, Pa./Carlisle) pitched a complete game on Tuesday evening, but it was enough as the Shippensburg University baseball team was defeated by Saint Leo University, 1-0, at Southard Stadium. Jesse Wilson also threw a complete game for the Lions.
 
The 13th-ranked Red Raiders (9-5), who had won their last three consecutive one-run games, are now 4-2 this season in games decided by one run.
 
McClintock went eight innings, allowing only one run and five hits while striking out three, but Shippensburg totaled just six hits and stranded eight runners on base. Meanwhile, Wilson held the Red Raiders scoreless in picking up the first complete game of his three-year career, striking out seven.
 
The game remained scoreless through 5 1/2 innings until Saint Leo's Chris Germano singled up the middle and stole second. With only one out Rhett Teller roped a single into left field and Germano managed to beat the throw home, scoring what proved to be the game-winning run. Germano went 3-for-4 and was the only player from either team to have more than one hit in the game.
 
Saint Leo (11-9) won its seventh-straight and its second consecutive game by shutout following Monday's 9-0 win against Concordia College (N.Y.).
 
Junior Nick Erdman (Leola, Pa./Conestoga Valley) went 1-for-1 with three walks for Shippensburg and sophomore Scott Goss (Johnstown, Pa./Westmont Hilltop) was 1-for-3 with a walk. Six different players had one hit each for the Red Raiders.
 
Both teams face each other again tomorrow night at Southard Stadium at 7:00 p.m.

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