Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – David Slusser pitched a complete-game, three-hit shutout in the opener, and Bret Moyer scattered four hits over six innings in the nightcap as West Chester blanked host Shippensburg, 3-0 and 7-0, in a PSAC East baseball doubleheader at Fairchild Field on a gorgeous Friday afternoon.
West Chester (38-10, 21-3 PSAC East) scored single tallies in the third, fifth and seventh of game one and rode the arm of Slusser to the win over Shippensburg (23-31, 12-13) and its ace Tim Freshour (7-5). Moyer (8-1) shut down the Raiders in game two while senior outfielder Matt Cotellese set one record and senior first baseman Blair Dameron tied another.
Cotellese broke the PSAC all-time hits record with a 3-for-4 day at the plate that included his seventh home run of the season. Cotellese has 290 career base hits, surpassing Shippensburg’s Justin Garber, who set the mark of 288 a year ago. He later hit a solo shot in the seventh to close out the scoring in the ballgame.
Dameron greeted relief pitcher Nick Umberger with his team-leading 12th home run of the year, a three-run shot in the third inning that tied the school record for most home runs in a single season. West Chester put up four runs in that frame to put the game out of reach, 5-0.
Cotellese and Dameron, the 3-4 hitters in West Chester’s lineup, were a combined 5-for-7 with six RBI in the nightcap.
Moyer struck out seven and walked two for his second shutout of the season. His counterpart, Ryan Rehman (4-2), lasted two innings, yielding four runs, three of them earned on four hits. Umberger pitched one innings, giving up one run on Dameron’s home run – the other two runners were charged to Rehman.
Bob Stumpo produced run-scoring singles in both the fifth and the seventh while Kevin McGrath knocked in a run in the third to provide all the scoring the Golden Rams would need in game one. Stumpo finished the day 2-for-3 with the two RBI.
Slusser (6-1) picked up his first shutout of the season in just his second complete-game effort. He struck out five and did not walk a batter in the win. Freshour scattered five hits over seven innings in the complete-game loss. He allowed three runs, two of them earned, and struck out two.
Cotellese was 0-for-3 in the opener, snapping his 17-game hitting streak.
West Chester is off for final exams until next Thursday evening when the Golden Rams make up the championship game of the Bill Giles Classic vs. Wilmington at Citizens Bank Park with first pitch set for 6 p.m.
