MANSFIELD, Pa. – Mansfield baseball (12-22, 6-12 PSAC East) welcomed the Shippensburg University Raiders (21-17, 8-10 PSAC East) on Friday (Apr. 18) afternoon for a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern Division doubleheader from Joseph Shaute Field.
 
Game One: Mansfield 14, Shippensburg 3
 
The Mountaineers' offense broke game one open immediately in the bottom of the first, scoring 11 runs and belting three homers in the inning.
 
Ryan Sekulski started the inning with a leadoff home run before back-to-back singles set up a Jacob Houtz three-run shot to stretch the Mountie advantage to 4-0.
 
Ryan Scott capped the inning with the Mountaineers' second three-run homer.
 
Shane Stossel, Hunter Smith, Cole Serfass, and Kahale Burns all collected hits in the inning.
 
Shippensburg got three runs back in the third, all unearned, to cut the Mansfield lead to 11-3.
 
Austin Beauchamp started game one, threw 6.0 innings, allowed zero earned runs, and struck out five Raiders.
 
Houtz led off the bottom of the sixth inning with Mansfield's fourth homer of the game and his second, to take a 12-3 lead.
 
Jeffrey Coakley and Serfass each brought home runners in the sixth to tack on two more and take an 11-run lead into the seventh.
 
Taylor Blevins relieved Beauchamp in the seventh and retired the side to finish off a dominant game one for the Mounties.
 
Game Two: Shippensburg 23, Mansfield 6
 
Shippensburg started quickly in the top of the first with a three-run home run, and back-to-back two-RBI singles put the Raiders up 7-0 after the first half inning.
 
The Raiders added five more in the top of the third, highlighted by their second three-run home run of the game.
 
Through three innings of play, Shippensburg had faced the minimum against Mansfield as the Mounties had just one hit, which was erased by a double play.
 
 Another home run from the Raiders helped extend their lead to 16-0 after the visitor half of the fourth.
 
Stossel got the Mounties on the board in the bottom half of the fourth with a two-run shot into the parking lot behind the right field fence.
 
Houtz hit his third home run of the day in the bottom of the sixth. Burns also homered in the inning, a three-run shot for his second of the season.
 
Shippensburg added seven more over the final three innings and took game two 23-6.
 
UP NEXT:
 
Mansfield travels to Shippensburg to complete their four-game series with the Raiders from Fairchild Field. The first pitch is scheduled for 1:00 p.m.