SRU gets baseball sweep of Ship
Chris Squeglia tossed a two-hit shutout in the first game of a doubleheader to key the Slippery Rock University baseball team to a 2-0, 5-2 sweep over Shippensburg Saturday.
Phil Butch scored the first run in the sixth inning on a fielder's choice, then drove in Jacob Oswalt on an RBI single.
Squeglia finished the game with six strikeouts and one walk while retiring the side in order the final three innings for The Rock (31-13, 14-6).
In the nightcap, Parsons highlighted a three-run sixth inning with a two-run single to help The Rock open up a 4-1 advantage.
Rich Hocanson improved to 5-0 on the year, allowing one earned run and five hits. He struck out four and walked three in six innings of work.
The Rock has now recorded 30-plus wins in each of the past five seasons and 10 in the past 11. Coach Jeff Messer is now four wins shy of reaching 700 (696-389-4).
Lock Haven handed SRU 7-1 and 14-2 losses in Sunday's regular-season finales.The losses drop The Rock to 26-22 overall (the wins being a school record) and 8-12 in the PSAC.Stacey Rhoades' RBI single in the third inning accounted for SRU's lone run in the first game. Rhoades and Sheree Horvath had RBI singles in the nightcap for SRU, which will wait to see if it will receive an NCAA regional tournament berth.
At the Sparky Adams Invitational at Baldwin-Wallace College, Andi Rose won the 100 hurdles (14.03 seconds) and 400 hurdles (1:00.72) and ran the third leg of the winning 1,600 relay 3:50.87) and the No. 3 runner on the runner-up 400 relay team (47.66).Rose was joined by Freeport graduate Lacey Cochran, Slippery Rock High grad Melissa Sopher and Jessica Sackin in the 1,600 relay and by Cochran, Vera McDaniel and Janiece Rush in the 400 relay.Susan Yuhas won the javelin with a throw of 127 feet, 5 inches.McDaniel was second in the 200 and third in the 100, while Sopher was second in the 400 hurdles and third in the 100 hurdles. Cochran (400), Katie Bork (5,000) and Katie Jones and Abby McKissick (pole vault) all earned second-place finishes in their respective events.In the men's event, Nate Shadeck was second in the 400 hurdles (55.43) and second in the 1,600 relay (3:22.03 with Shayne Cooper, Gabe Fortunato and Philip Rector). Rector was third in the 800 and Cooper fourth in the 100 hurdles.
