NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. -- The Grove City College baseball team opened its 20-game Presidents' Athletic Conference schedule Monday afternoon by taking both ends of a conference doubleheader at Westminster. Grove City (14-4, 2-0 PAC) rallied for a 4-2 win in the opener, then stormed to an 11-0, seven-inning victory in Game Two. The 10-run mercy rule stopped the second game after seven innings.

Senior pitcher Tate Ostrowski (Essex, Mass./Covenant Christian) matched a career high in Game One as he struck out 13 men in 7 2/3 innings. In Game Two, sophomore pitcher David Leslie (Butler, Pa./Butler) fired a one-hit shutout. 

Ostrowski yielded two runs in the bottom of the first inning but blanked Westminster (5-10, 0-2 PAC) for the duration of his outing. Grove City forged a 2-2 tie in the fifth inning when sophomore third baseman Mally Kilbane (Olmsted Falls, Ohio/Olmsted Falls) belted a two-run double that scored sophomore left fielder Nico Rodriguez (Stafford, Va./Mountain View) and sophomore shortstop Luke Vittone (Seven Fields, Pa./Eden Christian). 

Grove City surged ahead in the seventh inning when sophomore right fielder Josh Minnich (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley) doubled home Kilbane and freshman center fielder Nick Sampson (Venetia, Pa./Peters Township).

Kilbane went 3 for 3 with two doubles. Each team had five hits in the opener. 

Ostrowski (5-0) allowed five hits and walked two men. Sophomore Evan Umland (Pasadena, Calif./La Canada) earned his second save of the season by retiring all four batters faced. 

Grove City took early control of Game Two by scoring seven runs on four hits in the second inning. Sophomore DH Shane Cato (New Castle, Pa./Shenango) opened the scoring by singling home junior first baseman Markus Williams (Sewickley, Pa./Eden Christian) and Minnich. Junior second baseman Lucca Baccari (Irwin, Pa./Penn-Trafford) followed with a run-scoring single that plated senior catcher C.J. Saylor (Lancaster, Pa./Hempfield). Williams, Minnich and Saylor all walked to begin the inning. 

Sampson pushed the lead to 4-0 by driving in Cato with a single. Kilbane capped the inning with a bases-clearing double that scored Sampson, Vittone and Baccari. 

Cato launched a solo homer in the third inning, extending the lead to 8-0. Vittone scored on a Minnich groundout in the fourth inning. Cato scored on a fifth-inning error while Williams closed the scoring in the sixth inning by doubling in Minnich. 

Vittone went 2 for 4 in Game Two. 

Leslie allowed only a leadoff single to Westminster shortstop Logan Murgenovich in the fourth inning. Leslie (2-1) struck out three men and walked two while recording his first collegiate shutout. 

Ostrowski's 22 career wins rank third in program history, trailing only John Bini and Mike Herringshaw. Bini won 27 games from 2016 to 2019 while Herringshaw recorded 23 wins from 2007 to 2010. Umland is tied for second all-time at Grove City with eight saves. Austin Wacker also recorded eight saves from 2017 to 2020. Justin Miller (2004-07) holds the program record with 12 career saves. 

Kilbane leads Grove City with a .426 batting average, eight doubles and 19 runs batted in. 

Grove City pitchers have 159 strikeouts in 149 innings this year. 

The Wolverines will host No. 3 Baldwin Wallace at 3 p.m. Tuesday in non-conference action at Jack Behringer Field.