2007 PSAC Baseball Championship

Jack Critchfield Park, Slippery Rock University

May 5
4:30 PM -- Game 11
Shippensburg 18, California 6
1 PM - Game 10
Shippensburg 7, Slippery Rock 1

May 4
7 PM -- Game 9
California 7, Slippery Rock 2
3:30 PM - Game 8
Shippensburg 4, East Stroudsburg 1
Noon -- Game 7
California 4, Kutztown 3


 		 May 3
6 PM -- Game 6
 East Stroudsburg 9, Kutztown 5
3 PM -- Game 5
Shippensburg 3, West Chester 2
Noon - Game 4
Slippery Rock 8, California 2 
9 AM -- Game 3
Kutztown 2, Shippensburg 0
 
May 2
7 PM -- Game 2
California 7, East Stroudsburg 1
4 PM -- Game 1
Slippery Rock 13, West Chester 5

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - After dropping their first-round game, the Shippensburg Red Raiders battled through the consolation bracket, winning three-straight games and capturing the 2007 PSAC Championship, the 16th in school history, with a 18-6 victory over California (Pa.) at Jack Critchfield Park on Saturday.

First-year Shippensburg head coach Matt Jones becomes just the third Shippensburg coach since 1922 to win a conference title in his first season at the helm.

It is Shippensburg’s (27-22) first conference title since 2003 and eighth in the last 25 years.

Seniors Eric Perlozzo and Brandon White each tallied four hits. White also drove in four runs. Perlozzo’s four-hit, three-run performance in the championship capped a PSAC Tournament in which he hit .409 (9-for-22).

It was sophomore Kasey Kuhn and his timely hitting, however, that earned the tournament MVP award. In the finals, he totaled five RBIs, including his first career grand slam in the eighth inning.

After the Red Raiders jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first, Cal delivered a four-run second inning, bouncing senior starter Stephen Slatcoff from the game. But Cal’s starter, Ryan Heeman (3-4) lasted just one full inning, allowing two runs to start the second before handing the ball to Nathan Ley and Adam Smith.

However, the Red Raiders proceeded to score six more runs, seven in the second alone, to build an 11-4 lead after three innings.

Sophomore Timothy Freshour (1-0) entered in the fifth and cruised through the final five innings, surrendering no runs and no walks while scattering just three hits and striking out four.

Also helping Shippensburg offensively was senior Scott Goss, who went 3-for-4 with a homer, three RBIs and four runs scored. Dustin Woodring led the Vulcans at the plate with two hits and three RBIs.

With the win, Shippensburg receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Division II North Atlantic Regional and will be making its first appearance since 2004.