Box Score SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. - The Saint Michael's College baseball team opened its season with an 8-2 loss at Shippensburg University on Friday at Fairchild Field.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (0-1), Shippensburg (1-0)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Senior Sam Cavossa (East Falmouth, Mass./The Winchendon School), 1-for-4, R, 3B
• Junior Richard Gilboy (South Portland, Maine/South Portland), RBI, 2 BB
• Junior Jack Pattison (Vernon, Vt./Vermont Academy), 2-for-4, 2B
• Senior Keegan Burke (Amherst, N.H./Souhegan), 2.2 IP, 9 H, 7 R, 6 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, loss
• Senior Matt Safer (Essex, Vt./Essex), 5.1 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 4 K in relief

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Redshirt sophomore Brady Harbach, 2-for-3, 2 RBI, 2B
• Sophomore Will Oates, 1-for-4, 2 R, 2 RBI, HR
• Sophomore Evan Shoffler, 2-for-4, R, RBI, BB, 2 SB
• Junior Conner Barto, 5 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 8 K, win
• Sophomore Jacob Dennis, 4 IP, 0 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 5 K in relief, save

GAME FACTS

• The teams met for the first time.
• Cavossa's triple was the sixth of his career, tying for seventh in program history.
• Burke pushed his career strikeout total to 112, tying Dylan Lavery '17 for 18th in school annals.

THE ACTION

• The Purple Knights took a first-inning lead on Gilboy's bases-loaded walk, forcing home Cavossa.
• Shoffler scored the tying run in the home half before the Raiders went ahead on Harbach's two-run double in the second.
• Shippensburg scored four more runs - all with two out - on four hits in the third, capped by Oates' two-run homer.
• With the hosts ahead 7-1, neither team scored again until Shoffler came through with a two-out RBI knock in the eighth.
• Saint Michael's loaded the bases in the ninth and, with two down, the Raiders tried back picking the runner at second, but first-year Luca Sapienza (Saugus, Mass./Malden Catholic) stole home on the play.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Saturday at Shippensburg, 12 p.m. doubleheader.