BEAVER FALLS, Pa. -- The Grove City College baseball team collected 27 total runs Wednesday afternoon on the way to a doubleheader sweep of host Geneva in Presidents' Athletic Conference action at 33rd Street Field. Grove City won the opener, 20-6, then picked up a 7-1 victory in the nightcap. The conference's 10-run mercy rule shortened Game One to seven innings.

Grove City (19-7, 6-2 PAC) pounded out 18 hits in the opener as six players produced multi-hit outings. Freshman center fielder Nick Sampson (Venetia, Pa./Peters Township) went 4 for 6 with a triple, double and five runs batted in. Sophomore third baseman Shane Cato (New Castle, Pa./Shenango) launched a grand slam while finishing 2 for 3 with five runs batted in. Meanwhile, senior catcher C.J. Saylor (Lancaster, Pa./Hempfield) homered, singled and scored four runs. 

Sophomore shortstop Luke Vittone (Seven Fields, Pa./Eden Christian) went 3 for 5 with a double and three runs scored. Sophomore right fielder Josh Minnich (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley) and sophomore pitcher Mally Kilbane (Olmsted Falls, Ohio/Olmsted Falls) both added two hits. 

Grove City trailed 1-0 after three innings but surged ahead with a six-run outburst in the top of the fourth. Junior second baseman Lucca Baccari (Irwin, Pa./Penn Trafford) tied the game when his sacrifice fly scored Minnich. Vittone drove in Saylor with an infield hit while Sampson followed with a two-run double that scored Cato and sophomore left fielder Nico Rodriguez (Stafford, Va./Mountain View). 

Kilbane then capped the inning with a two-run single. 

Saylor's two-run homer in the fifth pushed Grove City's lead to 8-1. In the sixth, Minnich singled home Sampson and Vittone and later crossed home on an error. Cato and Sampson both had run-scoring singles in Grove City's second six-run inning of the day. Vittone drove in Cato with a bases-loaded hit batsman. 

Grove City sewed up the win with six more runs in the seventh inning, highlighted by Cato's grand slam. Sampson closed the scoring by tripling in Vittone and Rodriguez. 

Kilbane (2-0) pitched four innings to earn the win. He allowed one earned run and four hits. Junior Christian Hoffmann (Venetia, Pa./Peters Township) struck out two in his 1 2/3 innings of relief. Senior Robby Randolph (Cranberry Township, Pa./North Catholic) closed out the win with 1 1/3 scoreless innings of relief. 

In Game Two, sophomore pitcher Evan Umland (Pasadena, Calif./La Canada) fired a four-hitter to earn his fifth win of the season. Umland (5-2) struck out six and did not walk a batter in his nine innings. 

Vittone's solo homer in the third inning opening the scoring. Sampson then singled, stole second and scored on a Minnich single to center field. 

Baccari broke open the game in the fourth inning by launching his first collegiate home run, a three-run blast that scored sophomore left fielder David Leslie (Butler, Pa./Butler) and junior first baseman Markus Williams (Sewickley, Pa./Eden Christian). In the ninth, Saylor doubled in Baccari and sophomore pinch runner Sam DiStefano (Fairview, Pa./Fairview). 

Baccari and Williams both finished 2 for 4 as Grove City accumulated nine hits in the nightcap. 

Grove City will host Bethany in a conference doubleheader Saturday at 1 p.m. at Jack Behringer Field.