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BLOOMSBURG, Pa. - Senior Ashton Raines (Wallingford, Pa./Strath Haven) tossed his second career complete-game shutout in game one and fellow senior Ryan Shiffer (Toms River, N.J./Toms River South) belted a go-ahead two-run home run in the bottom of the fifth inning of game two as the Bloomsburg University baseball team stayed hot with a doubleheader sweep of visiting Mansfield University on Thursday afternoon at Danny Litwhiler Field. The Huskies have now won 13 of their last 16 games to improve to 23-9 overall and 12-6 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Eastern Division. The Mountaineers have dropped 14 straight contests to fall to 5-27 overall and 2-16 in the PSAC East.

Raines improved to 5-1 on the season after throwing his first complete game of the season - eighth of his career - and his first shutout since pitching a two-hitter against Shippensburg on March 30, 2018. The senior righthander threw 103 pitches - 70 for strikes - and allowed four hits and a walk while striking out five. He moved to within four strikeouts of becoming the school's all-time leader in career punchouts and lowered his season earned run average to 2.53 with the gem.

After loading the bases with nobody out in the bottom of the first and failing to score against Mansfield starter Evan McAndrew, the Huskies provided all the offense Raines would need in the bottom of the second as they jumped out to a 2-0 advantage. Junior Nate Krizan (Montoursville, Pa./Home School) continued to swing a torrid bat by leading off the home half of the inning with his second home run of the season - a no-doubter over the left field fence - to give the Huskies a 1-0 lead. Sophomore Kyle OFier (Pittston Township, Pa./Pittston Area) then drew a walk and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt from sophomore Jake Reed (Quakertown, Pa./Quakertown). Two batters later, junior Andrew Holmes (Egg Harbor Township, N.J./Egg Harbor Township) drove a double off the base of the left field fence to drive home OFier for the second run of the frame.

Both Raines and McAndrew kept throwing zeroes on the scoreboard until the Huskies broke the game open with three runs in the fifth and then four more in the sixth off of Mansfield reliever Joseph DePerno.

In the fifth, Holmes led off with his second double of the game, advanced to third on a passed ball, and then scored on a sacrifice fly from sophomore Ben Newbert (Bala Cynwyd, Pa./Harriton). Junior Cole Swiger (Maple Glen, Pa./Upper Dublin) followed with a towering two-run home run to left field to balloon Bloomsburg's advantage to 5-0. Swiger's home run - his seventh of the season - also plated sophomore Jared Burcin (Bethlehem, Pa./Liberty) who followed Holmes' at-bat with a four-pitch walk. With the round tripper, Swiger tied OFier for the team lead in home runs and gave him 18 for his career moving him into eighth place on the school's all-time list.

Then, in the sixth, Newbert belted his first home run of the season - a three-run blast over the left field fence off of DePerno - that drove home Reed and Burcin to extend the lead to 8-0. Swiger and Shiffer followed with back-to-back doubles to push the advantage to 9-0.

Raines completed the gem in the seventh, striking out Koty Fitzgerald on three pitches with a runner a second to end the contest.

McAndrew dropped to 3-5 on the season for Mansfield after allowing five runs on seven hits in five innings. He walked three and struck out five. DePerno was tagged with four runs in the sixth on three hits and a pair of walks.

Bloomsburg had ten hits in the opener with Swiger going 3-for-4 with two runs scored, a home run, and two RBI. Holmes and Krizan each had a pair of hits while Newbert drove in a game-high four runs. Camren Ney led Mansfield with two of its four hits.

Game two was a pitcher's duel between Bloomsburg sophomore righthander Nick Stoner (Elizabethtown, Pa./Elizabethtown) and Mansfield righthander Hunter DePrimo.

Mansfield struck first as it scored an unearned run in the top of the second to take a 1-0 lead. Brady Mengel led off with a double, advanced to third on a passed ball, and then scored on an RBI groundout from Tony Brown.

It remained a 1-0 advantage for the visitors until the bottom of the fifth when the Huskies finally broke through. DePrimo carried a no-hitter into the frame but allowed a leadoff walk to Burcin to start the Bloomsburg rally. Junior Gianni Sinatore (Whitehall, Pa./Whitehall) came in to pinch-run for Burcin following the free pass but was able to trot around the bases when Shiffer broke up the no-hit - and the shutout - bid when he launched an 0-2 offering from DePrimo over the center field fence to give the Huskies a 2-1 advantage. It was Shiffer's first home run of the season and the 12th round-tripper of his career.

The Huskies were not done in the fifth as redshirt freshman Carter Chasanov (Magnolia, Del./Polytech) started a two-out rally with a single and then came around to score from first on another run-scoring double from Holmes to push the Bloomsburg lead to 3-1.

Ney pulled Mansfield to within a run in the top of the sixth with a two-out solo home run off of Stoner, trimming the Huskies' lead to 3-2. But, senior Zach Newmyer (New Cumberland, Pa./Red Land) came on in the seventh and pitched a perfect 1-2-3 inning for his PSAC-leading sixth save of the season to complete the sweep.

Stoner improved to 4-2 on the season after allowing two runs (one earned) on four hits. He walked one and struck out eight. Newmyer struck out one batter in his perfect inning of relief. DePrimo suffered the hard-luck loss for the Mountaineers as he fell to 0-3 on the year. He allowed three runs on four hits, walked two, and struck out ten in a complete-game effort.

Chasanov, Holmes, Shiffer, and Sinatore had the hits for Bloomsburg in game two while Ney, for the second time, had two of Mansfield's four hits.

The teams are scheduled to conclude the series on Saturday, April 20, in Mansfield. First pitch of game one is slated to be thrown at 1:00 p.m.