Box Score

BUTLER, Pa. - Junior Tyler Basso delivered a sacrifice fly in the seventh inning that proved to be the game-winning run on Wednesday in a 5-4 victory for the Raiders over California from historic Pullman Park in the 2012 PSAC Baseball Championships.

With the victory, the East No. 2 seed Raiders (31-19) will play at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow against Mercyhurst. The win is also the team's first win over California (Pa.) in the first round in its last three PSAC Tournament appearances.

Senior Jimmy Miller earned the start from the mound and pitched into the fifth inning while giving up four runs on six hits and striking out two. He retired the first nine batters he faced in the contest but ran into trouble in the fourth and fifth innings.

Junior Cam Richardson pitched two and one-third innings of relief and gave up two hits while striking out one to earn the victory. Sophomore Austin Bartley pitched the eighth and ninth innings and gave up no hits and fanned two to earn the save. Bartley induced a double-play grounder in the eighth that silenced a Vulcan rally.

Junior right fielder Simon Beloff hit a two-run home run, while Jimmy Miller and junior center fielder Cody Kulp also drove in runs. Jimmy Miller's RBI was in the form of a sacrifice fly to center field in the second inning that followed a lead-off triple from junior catcher Tyler Shover for a 1-0 SU lead.

Freshman second baseman Jimmy Spanos led off the third inning by singling up the middle before advancing to second on a sacrifice bunt from senior left fielder Eric Herman.

Kulp then ripped the second pitch he saw up the middle for a single to bring home Spanos. Beloff then sent a 1-1 pitch over the right field fence to push the Raiders lead to 4-0. The Vulcans totaled seven singles over the next two innings, however, to score four unanswered runs and tie the game up at 4.

After a scoreless sixth inning by both teams, Beloff led off the seventh by doubling to center field. A walk from sophomore first baseman Pat Kregeloh and a Shover hit-by-pitch loaded the bases with no outs. Sophomore Dan Wimer then reached on a fielder's choice to first base that got Beloff out at home and advanced the other two runners.

Basso then hit his eventual game-winning sacrifice fly to right field that scored Kregeloh to put Shippensburg back on top, 5-4.

Note: In addition to the PSAC live stats coverage, SU sports information is planning to broadcast Thursday night's game online with assistance from Millersville University on the MSBN internet feed available here.