Red Raiders Run Winning Streak to Five with 7-2 Win at Millersville
April 6, 2007
MILLERSVILLE, Pa. - Shippensburg baseball junior Justin Garber (Elizabethtown/Elizabethtown) went 3-for-5 and drove in a career-high four runs while four pitchers limited Millersville to just 2 runs on 8 hits, pushing the Red Raiders to a 7-2 victory in a non-divisional match-up at Millersville Friday afternoon.
The victory is the fifth in a row and 10th in 11 games for the Red Raiders (13-11). It is also the third win over Millersville (5-23) this season, as the Red Raiders swept a doubleheader by scores of 4-0 and 7-1 on March 27.
Garber's 3-for-5 performance continues a hot streak in which he has went 17-for-36 with 12 runs and 13 RBI in his last 10 games. Last week, he was named PSAC Western Division Player of the Week.
Garber got the Red Raiders on the board in the first inning with an RBI-single, scoring sophomore Tyler Redick (Fairfield/Walkersville (Md.)), who led off the frame with a single of his own. Garber struck again in the third with a two run single to center.
Shippensburg starter Stephen Slatcoff (Winder/Windber) kept Millersville off the board and allowed just one hit in his two innings of work. He handed the ball to senior Frank D'Agostino (Pine Grove/Pine Gove) who also worked two scoreless innings.
Millersville briefly threatened in the third, but senior Eric Perlozzo (Cumberland, Md./Bishop Walsh) made a diving catch on a line drive up the middle, leaving two Marauders stranded.
The following inning, Perlozzo drove in junior Eric Dezell (Bel Air, Md./John Carroll), pushing the lead to 4-0. Sophomore Kasey Kuhns (Three Springs/Southern Huntingdon) added an RBI double in the fifth, and Shippensburg added a pair of insurance runs in the sixth, including Garber's fourth RBI of the afternoon.
Slatcoff (2-2) earned the mound win for the Red Raiders. Sophomore Jason Kelly (Harrisburg/Central Dauphin) surrendered Millersville's only two runs in his two innings of work, and red-shirt freshman Phil Harnick (Lancaster/Hempfield) recorded three strikeouts and allowed no hits over the final three innings.
Andrew Clemens (0-5) suffered the loss for Millersville after allowing three runs on five hits in two innings. Millersville used five pitchers in the game.
The two squads were not originally scheduled to meet, but because of inclement weather, both Shippensburg and Millersville's PSAC road doubleheaders were postponed. The teams decided late Thursday to play in an effort to reclaim some of the action they lost during the rainy spring.
The Red Raiders return to Fairchild Field tomorrow afternoon for a PSAC Western Division doubleheader against Indiana (Pa.). The first pitch is scheduled for 1:00 p.m.
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