GROVE CITY, Pa. -- The Grove City College baseball team completed a season sweep of longtime rival Westminster by earning a 6-5, 10-inning home victory Saturday afternoon in Presidents' Athletic Conference play at Jack Behringer Field.
Grove City loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the 10th when Westminster reliever Nate McMaster hit sophomore second baseman
Bobby Dulay (Youngstown, Ohio/Ursuline) with an 0-2 pitch, bringing home senior right fielder
Nolan Myers (Landisville, Pa./Hempfield) with the winning run.
Myers opened the inning with a walk, then moved to second on a single by senior catcher
Andy Fritz (Saxonburg, Pa./Knoch). Senior shortstop
David Laylock (Pittsburgh, Pa./Pine-Richland) followed with a sacrifice bunt that Westminster mishandled, loading the bases.Â
Westminster carried a 3-0 lead into the fifth inning but Grove City rallied to take its first lead of the game. After Laylock singled in Myers, Fritz came home on a groundout by junior center fielder
Tyler Graham (Vandergrift, Pa./Kiski Area). Senior first baseman
Matt Waugaman (Wexford, Pa./North Allegheny) followed with a two-run double that scored Laylock and sophomore third baseman
Micah Burke (Gilbert, Ariz./E.V.A.C.).
Westminster tied the game in the sixth on Ty Ferlin's solo home run but Waugaman singled in Graham in the seventh, putting Grove City ahead 5-4. Westminster again tied the game in the eighth.Â
In the top of the 10th, Westminster loaded the bases with one out but sophomore reliever
Phil Bell (Poland, Ohio/Heartland Christian) recorded a pair of forceouts to end the threat.Â
Bell, Grove City's fourth pitcher of the afternoon, earned the win after working 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief. Senior
Ben Finlan (State College, Pa./State College) started and yielded three earned runs in 4 1/3 innings. Freshman
Corey Thomas (Carlisle, Pa./Carlisle) allowed one run in his inning while senior
Jimmy Palmer (Pittsburgh, Pa./Chartiers Valley) pitched two innings of relief. Palmer allowed one run.
Fritz had a season-high three hits in five at-bats, including a double. In 20 conference games, Waugaman has 22 runs batted in. Dulay is hitting .333 in league play. Grove City opened the weekend series Friday with Westminster by sweeping a doubleheader in New Wilmington, 6-0 and 15-3.
Grove City (14-16, 11-9 PAC) will visit Thomas More for a single conference game Wednesday afternoon in Crestview Hills, Ky.