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BUTLER, Pa. - No. 1-ranked Millersville advanced in the winners bracket of the 2016 PSAC Baseball Tournament with a 15-8 win vs. East Stroudsburg University on Monday afternoon at Kelly Automotive Park.

ESU (36-15), which opened the tournament with a 5-2 win vs. Seton Hill on Sunday, will face Seton Hill again on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. in an elimination game for both teams.

Seton Hill posted a 6-1 win vs. California in Monday's first game.

The ESU-Seton Hill winner will play the winner of Monday night's winners bracket game between Mercyhurst and West Chester on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.

Millersville (46-4), ranked No. 1 in last week's NCBWA Division II poll and No. 2 in this week's Collegiate Baseball Newspaper poll, put together 19 hits and scored in each of the first six innings, including a five-run first.

ESU had 24 baserunners on 17 hits and seven walks, but left 18 runners on base.

Seven Warriors had multiple hits - redshirt junior OF Robert Bennie (2-for-5, 2 RBI), redshirt senior 3B Drew Hercik (2-for-5, HR, walk, RBI, run), redshirt senior 1B Matt Walewski (2-for-6, 2 runs), sophomore DH Christian Rishel (2-for-6, 2 runs), redshirt junior OF Casey Saverio (3-for-6, triple, run), sophomore catcher Steven Zimmerman, Jr. (3-for-6, run) and redshirt junior 2B Jay Young (2-for-5, 2 RBI).

Junior OF Ian Allen was 0-for-1 with five walks, and redshirt junior SS Conner Crookham was 1-for-5 with a walk and a home run.

The first six batters in the order had multiple hits for Millersville - Tyler Orris (2-for-4, HR, 2 walks, RBI, 3 runs), Dan Neff (2-for-6, RBI, 2 runs), Chas McCormick (2-for-3, 2 walks, 2 RBI, 2 runs), Dan Stoltzfus (3-for-5, triple, 3 RBI, 3 runs), Mitch Stoltzfus (4-for-6, double, 2 RBI, run) and Jeremy Musser (3-for-6, 3 RBI, 2 runs).

Cordell Shannon started and went 4.0 innings (4 runs, 3 earned, 10 hits) for Millersville. Logan Grant threw 3.0 innings of scoreless relief to earn the win.

ESU used five pitchers with sophomore Joe Cominsky (1.0 IP, 0 hits, 0 runs) and junior Billy Sablinski (2.0 IP, 0 hits, 0 runs, 1 walk) the most effective, holding Millersville scoreless over the final three innings.


GAME NOTES

* Hercik set one ESU career record and tied another:
Walks (100) - breaks mark of 99 by Joe Ragozino (1986-89)
Runs (159) - ties mark by Brett Reynolds (1998-01)

* ESU is 8-3 in PSAC Tournament games since the start of the 2013 tournament (won 2013, runner-up 2015)
* Warriors are 1-2 vs. Millersville (W 2nd round 2013, L championship game 2015) and 7-1 vs. all other teams