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Game 1 - W 1-0
Game 2 - W 3-0

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EAST STROUDSBURG – Senior Laura Suits and freshman Rachael Liguori both threw complete game shutouts as East Stroudsburg University swept Millersville in a PSAC East softball doubleheader, 1-0 and 3-0, on Saturday afternoon at Zimbar Field.

Suits held Millersville (22-22, 10-14) to four hits in the opener, ending the Marauders' six-game winning streak, before Liguori struck out six and allowed just five hits in the nightcap for ESU (13-20, 8-10), which finishes the regular season with 10 games in a six-day stretch next week.

The shutout sweep is ESU's first in divisional play since 2007, when the Warriors blanked Mansfield and Millersville in both ends of doubleheaders that season.

Millersville was coming off a pair of shutouts (1-0, 4-0) over PSAC East leader West Chester on Friday, but couldn't get its offense going against the Warriors on Senior Day.

ESU had 13 hits led by senior catcher Rebecca Smith, who was 3-for-6. Four Warriors had RBI's in the doubleheader.

Game 1 – W 1-0

Suits threw her fourth shutout of the season, and the sixth of her career, in the opener. Millersville put a runner in scoring position in four different innings but couldn't capitalize, while the Warriors broke through with the game's only run in the fifth inning off the Marauders' Brianna Andraos.

Freshman pinch-runner Sam Parker came around to score after sophomore 3B Haley Thomas led off with a single. Parker moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by junior OF Kasey Meckes, third on a fielder's choice and scored on a fielder's choice with junior OF Cara Woods getting credit for the RBI.

Millersville's Heather Lutz hit a leadoff double in the sixth and ESU committed an error to put runners on first and second with nobody out. After an infield popup, Ashley Cantiello flew out to right field and senior Kaitlin Blum threw Lutz out at third base trying to advance.

In the seventh, Mandy Hammond had a pinch-hit single with one out but Suits got two flyouts to left field to end it.

Game 2 – W 3-0

Liguori earned her first career shutout, and her second complete game win of the week after beating Mansfield 4-3 on Thursday.

She scattered five hits but no more than one in an inning, and got an early lead when ESU scored in the second.

The Warriors strung together three straight singles, with senior Amanda McKay driving in a run after freshman SS Rae Holden and Rebecca Smith both had base hits with one out.

Liguori stranded a leadoff double in the fifth inning, and ESU got two insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth. Sophomore OF Sierra Wagner singled to score junior 2B Jamie Smith, then Rebecca Smith singled off the pitcher to drive in junior 1B Cara McNeil.

Holden and Rebecca Smith both had two hits in game two as ESU had nine hits off Millersville's Amanda Wink.

ESU moves into sixth in the PSAC East standings with the top four teams in the eight-team division through next weekend qualifying for the postseason. The current standings are: West Chester (16-8), Bloomsburg (10-8), Shippensburg (12-8), Lock Haven (11-13), Mansfield (9-11), ESU (8-10), Millersville (10-14) and Kutztown (8-14).

The Warriors host Bloomsburg Monday and Kutztown on Saturday. They travel to Shippensburg Tuesday, Mansfield Wednesday and West Chester on Friday as they look for their first PSAC Tournament appearance since 2010.