Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Vero Beach, FL – Dominant starting pitching from Kyal Williams and Jeff Skadeland propelled the University of Mary to a pair of wins on its final day on its spring trip and kept the Marauders perfect in Florida. The Marauders rolled past Penn State Brandywine 9-0 and Penn State Fayette 11-0.
 
The two seniors combined to throw 15 shutout innings with 17 strikeouts, allowing just six hits and one walk.
 
Williams dominated Brandywine in the opening game. Making his first appearance in Florida, the native of Adelaide, South Australia, struck out 12 in the nine-inning complete game shutout performance. He allowed four hits – three singles and a double – and didn't walk a batter. Eight of the strikeouts were looking.
 
The 12 strikeouts is the highest total recorded by a U-Mary pitcher in the NCAA era, exceeding the 11 by Nate Watson against Winona State on April 20, 2009. The school record is 14 by Mike Gustavsson in 1999.
 
Up 1-0 early, the Marauders doubled their lead over Brandywine when James Carroll was struck by a pitch with the bases loaded to force home a run in the third inning. U-Mary put the game away in the sixth when Cory Herback cracked a two-run double and scored on a throwing error to increase the Marauders advantage to 7-0.
 
Skadeland, who threw a shutout against Brandywine on March 2, held Penn State Fayette scoreless in his six innings on the mound. The Williston, ND, native allowed just two singles and one walk while striking out five.
 
A perfect 3-0 on the season, Skadeland now has thrown 18 straight scoreless innings.
 
Brad Horan, Adam Brewers and Sam Salveson each pitched a scoreless inning to complete the shutout. Horan struck out three hitters in his lone inning.
 
U-Mary scored all the runs it needed in the top of the second inning. Derek Sommerville scored on a wild pitch and Mo Burrough stroked a 2-run single to give the Marauders a 3-0 lead. Highlighted by a two-run triple by Burrough, U-Mary exploded for five more runs in the third to take a commanding 8-0 lead.
 
In sweeping six games in Florida, U-Mary pitched four shutouts and outscored its opposition 51-6.
 
The Marauders improve to 9-2-1 overall. U-Mary is next in action on March 23-24 at Upper Iowa University to open Northern Sun play.
 
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