GROVE CITY, Pa. -- The Grove City College baseball team split a Presidents' Athletic Conference doubleheader Saturday afternoon with visiting Allegheny at Jack Behringer Field. Grove City (17-7, 4-2 PAC) dropped the opener, 7-6, but rebounded for an 8-3 victory in Game Two.

Five Grove City players produced multi-hit efforts in Game Two as the Wolverines finished with a dozen hits. Sophomore shortstop Luke Vittone (Seven Fields, Pa./Eden Christian) homered and singled to help pace Grove City while junior second baseman Lucca Baccari (Irwin, Pa./Penn-Trafford) doubled and singled. 

Sophomore third baseman Shane Cato (New Castle, Pa./Shenango), sophomore right fielder Josh Minnich (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley) and junior first baseman Markus Williams (Sewickley, Pa../Eden Christian) also had two hits apiece. 

Grove City grabbed a 5-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth. Williams's bunt single scored freshman center fielder Nick Sampson (Venetia, Pa./Peters Township) to open the scoring. Senior catcher C.J. Saylor (Lancaster, Pa./Hempfield) doubled the lead by singling in sophomore DH Mally Kilbane (Olmsted Falls, Ohio/Olmsted Falls).

Cato's two-run single brought home Minnich and Williams while Baccari later singled in Cato.

Allegheny (10-11, 3-3 PAC) trimmed the lead to 5-2 but Grove City countered with two runs in the bottom of the seventh. Baccari doubled in Cato and then scored a Vittone single. Vittone's leadoff homer in the eighth closed the scoring.

Sophomore pitcher David Leslie (Butler, Pa./Butler) earned his third win of the season by allowing one earned run in 7 2/3 innings. He fanned seven while yielding six hits. Sophomore pitcher Evan Umland (Pasadena, Calif./La Canada) recorded the final four outs to notch his third save of the season.

Minnich paced Grove City's 12-hit attack in Game One by going 3 for 4 with a double. Saylor tripled and singled while Vittone finished 2 for 5. Sampson added a double. The Wolverines stranded 11 runners in the opener, however.

Grove City trailed 3-0 in the third inning before breaking through with Minnich's two-run double that scored Kilbane and Sampson. 

Saylor scored on Vittone's single in the seventh inning, cutting the margin to 7-3. Saylor then tripled home Minnich and Kilbane in the seventh inning. Baccari drove in Saylor with a single, trimming the lead to 7-6. 

Senior pitcher Tate Ostrowski (Essex, Mass./Covenant Christian) struck out seven men in 5 2/3 innings. Ostrowski (6-1) allowed six earned runs and took the setback. Sophomore Isaiah Zuchowski (Barneveld, N.Y./Poland) pitched 2 1/3 innings of scoreless relief. Umland pitched a perfect ninth.

Grove City will visit Geneva for a conference doubleheader Wednesday at 1 p.m. in Beaver Falls, Pa.