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QUAKERTOWN, Pa. – Bloomsburg University hit five total home runs as they went undefeated on the first day of the PSAC Championships, defeating Gannon 7-1 and No. 20 Shippensburg 6-0.
 
Mandi Baer (Douglassville/Daniel Boone), Hannah Moir (Mount Laurel, NJ/Lenape ) and Caitlin O'Connor (Rockaway, NJ/Morris Knolls) all homered in the opener, and Kayla McHale (Dillsburg/Northern) and Chrissy Belko (Old Forge/Old Forge) went yard against the Raiders.
 
Cait Paine (Lebanon/Lebanon) pitched both games and allowed just a total of one run in 14 innings, including a two-hit shutout against Shippensburg.

Bloomsburg wasted no time getting on the scoreboard against Gannon as Baer took a Megan Dragon offering over the fence in center for her seventh homer run of the season and a 1-0 lead.  Later in the frame, Moir homered to left with two runners on for a 4-0 lead after the first inning. 
 
Samantha Scott answered for Gannon in the third with a solo shot to cut the Bloomsburg lead to 4-1.  But that proved to be the only damage Paine would allow.
 
The Huskies got the run back in the bottom of the inning, when Rachel Fredell (Dingmans Ferry/Delaware Valley) singled to start the inning and scored on a base hit by Lea Rehm (Bloomsburg/Bloomsburg) for a 5-1 lead.
 
Bloomsburg took advantage of the long ball again in the fourth inning when O'Connor homered to left to extend the lead to 7-1.
 
Paine kept the Golden Knights off balance all morning, allowing just four hits and striking out three in a complete game effort. 
 
Baer was the only Husky with two hits in the game and also scored twice.  Rehm reached via a hit and walk to reach base twice.  O'Connor scored twice.
 
Alyssa Bates had two hits for Gannon. Dragon took the loss, allowing seven runs on seven hits and two walks in four innings.

The win advanced the Huskies into a match up with nationally ranked Shippensburg and Paine continued her dominating ways, striking out nine Raiders and allowing just two hits.

Neither team scored until the Huskies pushed a run across in the top of the sixth.  Fredell led off the inning with a walk and was lifted for pinch runner Erika Yanora (Tunkhannock/Tunkhannock).  With two outs and Yanora on third, Moir blooped a single into short center field to give Bloomsburg the lead. 

The Huskies broke the game open in the seventh when six straight batters reached base with two outs.  Baer started the rally with a double and scored on a homer to left by McHale to make it 3-0.  Fredell singled, and O'Connor struck out on a wild pitch but reached first to keep the inning alive. Belko made the Raiders pay, smashing a pitch far over the fence in center for a 6-0 BU lead.

Bloomsburg did all the damage against Shippensburg's Emily Estep, who had allowed just five earned runs in 55 innings of conference action in 10 appearances this season. 

Moir and Baer had two hits apiece for BU.

After winning twice on the tournament's opening day, the Huskies move on in the winner's bracket to face No. 7 California (Pa.) at 1 p.m. at Veterans Park in Quakertown.