Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
WEST CHESTER, Pa. – Chris Pula went a combined 6-for-8 at the plate, but West Chester committed 10 errors in the doubleheader and split its PSAC East twinbill with visiting Shippensburg, dropping the opener 8-7, but rebounding to win the nightcap, 13-5.
West Chester (13-14, 5-7 PSAC East) rapped out 22 hits in the two games and scored 20 runs. It just wasn’t enough to take a much-needed sweep over Shippensburg (14-17, 7-5).
Pula went 4-for-4 with a bases-clearing double in the first inning of game one. He went 2-for-4 with two more RBI in the nightcap, including another double and a triple.
Jordan Lehman (2-3) picked up the win in game two, surrendering two runs on three hits in three innings of work. He relieved starter Conor Kerins, who went the first three innings on a pitch count as he continues his progress back from Tommy John surgery last season. Kerins allowed three runs, all of them unearned, on just one hit. He struck out two.
Joe Wendle smashed a three-run homer in the bottom of the third that gave West Chester the lead for good, 5-3. Wendle was 1-for-3 in the nightcap, including his third home run of the season.
Jack Provine was 2-for-4 with four RBI, including a double and a triple. Reid Pulford went 2-for-3, and Brandon Wolfe 2-for-2 in the second game as well.
West Chester’s seven-run fifth broke open a 6-3 ballgame. Pula hit a two-run triple and Provine a bases-clearing double during the frame.
Shippensburg scored single runs in the fifth and sixth innings of the opener to come from behind and beat West Chester. Brent Roehrich (2-1) suffered the loss, facing three batters in the sixth inning and allowing just one unearned run. Lehman relieved him and finished up, keeping the Rams within striking distance.
Joe Gunkel started and lasted five innings, leaving with the score tied at 7-7. He yielded 10 hits, walked two and struck out four. Wolfe and Mike Raimo each had a pair of hits in the first game. Wolfe finished the doubleheader 4-for-5.
West Chester travels to Chestnut Hill on Monday for a non-league tilt.
