Box Score Eleventh-ranked Shippensburg University opened-up a 2-0 third-inning lead and had three pitchers combine to hold the Mountain Cats to just a pair of hits in a 4-0 non-conference victory over Pitt-Johnstown, Tuesday afternoon at Point Stadium. The Mountain Cats slipped to 11-19.
The Raiders got an RBI double from Mike Douglas and a Pat Kregeloh run-producing single to go in front 2-0. Shippensburg added a run in the fifth, before Kregeloh's solo homer over the left field screen in the seventh made it 4-0.
That all the Red Raiders needed. Starter Shawn Patterson tossed five scoreless innings, allowing just one hit, a
Nate Negri single through the left side to lead off the bottom of the fifth. Kyle McClintock pitched two hitless innings, and Thomas Swartz gave up just one hit, a
Jake Warner ninth-inning single, over the final two innings.
Brantley Rice pitched the first two innings for Pitt-Johnstown and surrendered just two base hits.
Elliott Chamberlain took the loss and fell to 0-1 after giving up the three third-inning runs.
Kregeloh went 2-for-3 with a solo homerun and two RBI, while Cody Ezolt had two doubles and drove in a run for Shippensburg, which improved to 22-8.
Pitt-Johnstown will host a PSAC Western Division doubleheader against Indiana (PA) on Friday at noon at Point Stadium, before traveling to Indiana to complete the four-game series on Saturday.Â
