BEAVER FALLS, Pa. -- The Grove City College baseball team took both ends of a Presidents' Athletic Conference doubleheader Friday afternoon at Geneva, completing a three-game sweep of the Golden Tornadoes. Grove City won the opener, 9-4, then picked up a 12-7 win in Game Two at 33rd Street Field.
Freshman pitcher
Evan Umland (Pasadena, Calif./La Canada) fired a seven-inning complete game in the opener to earn his third win of the season. Umland (3-1) struck out nine, walked two and allowed one earned run.
Junior catcher
C.J. Saylor (Lancaster, Pa./Hempfield) doubled and singled for the Wolverines (12-4, 3-0 PAC) while freshman first baseman
Mally Kilbane (Olmsted Falls, Ohio/Olmsted Falls) went 2 for 3 and scored three runs. Sophomore shortstop
Lucca Baccari (Irwin, Pa./Penn Trafford) also went 2 for 3 and knocked in three runs. Junior right fielder
Anthony Tambellini (Pittsburgh, Pa./Montour) scored three times.
Tambellini gave Grove City a 1-0 lead in the first inning when he scored on a single by sophomore DH
Markus Williams (Sewickley, Pa./Eden Christian). The Wolverines extended the lead to 4-0 in the third inning as Kilbane singled in Tambellini, Saylor scored on a sacrifice fly from freshman center fielder
Nico Rodriguez (Stafford, Va./Mountain View) and Baccari then singled home Kilbane.
Kilbane scored on a wild pitch in the fifth inning to give Grove City a 5-0 lead. Williams scored the second run of the inning when freshman second baseman
Luke Vittone (Seven Fields, Pa./Eden Christian) hit a sacrifice fly.
Baccari's two-run single in the sixth closed the scoring as Williams and Kilbane crossed home.
Kilbane homered, laced a pair of singles and scored four runs in the nightcap to help pace the Wolverine offense. Baccari went 3 for 3 with a double and four runs batted in while Williams doubled and singled. Saylor went 2 for 3 with three runs scored. Tambellini and freshman catcher
Sam DiStefano (Fairview, Pa./Fairview) each doubled.Â
Grove City grabbed a 2-0 lead in the second inning as Williams scored on an error and Rodriguez later came in when senior DH
Bubba Hamilton (Garner, N.C./Waynesboro, Pa.) lofted a sacrifice fly. Baccari and Hamilton both had run-scoring singles in the third inning as extended its lead to 5-0.Â
The lead swelled to 9-0 in the fourth inning when Tambellini scored on a wild pitch, Williams doubled in Saylor and Baccari drove in Willilams and Kilbane with a single. Baccari doubled in Kilbane in the sixth inning, giving Grove City a 10-3 lead. Kilbane's two-run blast in the eighth inning gave Grove City a 12-5 advantage.
Junior pitcher
Elijah White (Zelienople, Pa./Portersville Christian) earned the win by pitching three innings of relief. He struck out four in three innings, allowing two runs and three hits. Sophomore
Nick Guidas (Gibsonia, Pa./Pine-Richland) started and pitched 2 1/3 scoreless innings.
Sophomore
Nate Hamel (Pittsburgh, Pa./Upper Saint Clair) threw 1 2/3 innings of relief after White. Freshman
Shane Cato (New Castle, Pa./Shenango) allowed two unearned runs in his two innings.Â
The Wolverines have won 9 of their last 10 games. Grove City will visit conference rival Westminster for a 1 p.m. doubleheader Tuesday in New Wilmington.