SOFTBALL
Greencastle-Antrim 15, Shippensburg 2: The Blue Devils’ pitcher, Kiersten Swain, was on fire in a Mid Penn Colonial victory Thursday afternoon in Shippensburg against the Greyhounds.

Kiersten Swain

Swain had a banner day, allowing only 3 hits and walking one while striking out 17 batters (all but 4 of Ship’s outs).

At the plate, Caroline Logsdon had two hits — a double and a triple — and drove in 6 runs for Greencastle (10-1, 8-0 MPC).

The Blue Devils posted 15 hits, including 5 extra-base hits, and were issued 9 walks.

Kindal Rice was 2-for-5 with a home run and 3 RBIs, and Kylie Kerns had a homer and double, and scored 3 times. Zhen Reuter had 2 hits and scored 3 times and Bailey Leckron also had a pair of hits.

Greencastle now has hit 9 home runs this year from 5 different players.

For Shippensburg (7-5, 3-3 MPC), the only runs off Swain came in the fifth when Alexis Kitner led off with a single and Kylie Brown followed with a two-run home run.

BASEBALL
Shippensburg 6, Greencastle-Antrim 2: Athan Miller had a fine relief stint and the Greyhounds scored 5 runs in the late innings to hand the Blue Devils a Mid Penn Colonial defeat at home on Thursday afternoon.

JD Flynn

Miller threw the final 5 innings for Shippensburg (4-7-1, 2-4-1 MPC) in relief of Jack Johnson, allowing just 1 hit, no runs and striking out 4.

“Shippensburg has beaten Northern, Boiling Springs and us in their last three games, so they are playing well,” G-A coach Eric Shaner said. “We made a lot of loud outs today — their outfielders made three really good plays. They played a really clean game and we didn’t. We made too many mental errors and physical errors.”

The Blue Devils (6-4, 5-3 MPC) scored both of their runs in the second inning to take a 2-1 lead. Avery Horst singled and went to second on an error. JD Flynn bunted for a base hit, then Bryce Davidson brought Horst in with a sacrifice fly. After a walk to Andrew Weaver, Cam Rakaczewski singled in Flynn.

Ryder Linn relieved Ben Horst in the fifth and gave up 5 runs — only 3 were earned.