MILLERSVILLE, Pa. – The Kutztown University baseball team had its one-through-four hitters in the lineup record a hit in both games at 25th-ranked Millersville Saturday, and sported five players total with multi-hit games as it dropped two closely contested ball games 4-1 in the opener and 3-2 in the nightcap in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) action.
 
The Golden Bears (3-17 overall, 2-8 PSAC) got two hits each from Tanner Miller (Elizabethville, Pa./Upper Dauphin), Bo Rottet (Tamaqua, Pa./Tamaqua), Zach Moretski (Harleysville, Pa./La Salle College H.S.), Nick Lafferty (Croydon, Pa./Archbishop Wood) and Jeff Charles (Whitehall, Pa./Whitehall). The Marauders (22-7, 9-1) are at the top of the PSAC East Division standings, but KU was in each game until the final out was recorded.
 
Doug Conrad (West Chester, Pa./Downingtown West) threw game one, going five innings and allowing just two earned runs. Zach Peters (Lititz, Pa./Warwick) started game two and pitched four innings, giving up five hits and three earned runs, with Garrett Alread (Victor, N.Y./Victor) finishing the last two hitless innings for KU.
 
Kutztown and Millersville will compete at North Campus Field for two tomorrow, Sunday, April 7, with game one beginning at 1 p.m.
 
Millersville 4, Kutztown 1
 
After three scoreless innings to open up the game, Millersville broke through with two runs in the bottom of the fourth on an RBI double and RBI single.
 
Moretski helped the Maroon and Gold cut their deficit in half in their ensuing at-bats with a run-scoring single up the middle that brought home Rottet. But that would be the last KU run of the game.
 
The Marauders had an identical sixth as they did in the fourth with an RBI double and single that sent two runners across home plate as they held on for the opening victory.
 
Millersville 3, Kutztown 2
 
Kutztown went down by three runs after the second inning and was held scoreless through the first five innings. KU actually didn't pick up its first hit of the game until the fourth on a base hit by Moretski.
 
Trailing 3-0 after two and heading into the sixth inning, Miller and Rottet got things going with one-out singles. Moretski and Lafferty followed up by reaching base via fielders' choice to score Miller and Rottet as KU now trailed by just one, 3-2. With Lafferty, the tying run at second base and two outs, KU was unable to get him home.
 
In their final at-bats, the Golden Bears went down 1-2-3.