GROVE CITY, Pa. -- The Grove City College baseball team split a Presidents' Athletic Conference doubleheader Tuesday afternoon with visiting Waynesburg University (22-14, 15-5) at Jack Behringer Field. Grove City (17-11, 8-4 PAC) earned a 9-2 victory in the opener while Waynesburg pulled out a 9-8 victory in Game Two. The nightcap went 10 innings.

Senior pitcher Nick Guidas (Gibsonia, Pa./Pine Richland) fired a complete game in Game One for the Wolverines, striking out 10 men in nine innings. He allowed two runs and five hits while issuing no walks. Guidas (3-3) now leads the conference with 66 strikeouts and a 2.33 earned run average. 

Offensively, the Wolverines pounded out 14 hits as six men had multi-hit games. Junior shortstop Luke Vittone (Seven Fields, Pa./Eden Christian) went 3 for 4 with a doubled and three runs scored. Freshman DH Treyton Sarvis (Chambersburg, Pa./Chambersburg) doubled twice while freshman second baseman Micheal Earman (Grove City, Pa./Grove City) doubled, singled and hit a sacrifice fly while knocking in three runs. 

Freshman third baseman Sam Bevin (Louisville, Ky./Wake County) doubled and singled. Sophomore center fielder Nick Sampson (Venetia, Pa./Peters Township) and junior catcher Sam DiStefano (Fairview, Pa./Fairview) both went 2 for 3. Sampson scored twice while DiStefano drove in a season-high three runs. 

Grove City grabbed a 3-0 lead in the fourth inning as Earman singled in Vittone and Sarvis doubled in Sampson. Earman scored the third run of the inning when Bevin hit into a force play. 

DiStefano's two-run single highlighted Grove City's four-run fifth inning. Vittone singled home junior right fielder Josh Minnich (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley) during the outburst and then came home on Earman's sacrifice fly. Earman doubled in Vittone in the seventh inning and later came in on DiStefano's single up the middle. 

In Game Two, Grove City trailed 4-1, surged ahead 6-4 and then trailed 9-6 entering the bottom of the 10th inning. Minnich and Vittone had run-scoring singles in the 10th inning, cutting Waynesburg's lead to 9-8. However, the Wolverines left the bases loaded in the 10th inning. 

Minnich paced Grove City's 12-hit attack by going 3 for 5 with a double. Bevin, Sarvis and Vittone all added a pair of hits. Bevin and freshman left fielder Caison Holland (Freedom, Pa./Ambridge) both scored twice. 

Grove City trailed 4-1 in the fifth inning but rallied to tie the game with a three-run rally, Junior catcher Aaron Gault (Youngstown, Ohio/Heartland Christian) came home on an error after a Holland single. Minnich's sacrifice fly brought home Bevin while Holland scored the tying run on Vittone's infield hit. 

Bevin gave Grove City a 5-4 lead in the sixth by singling in Sarvis. Bevin later scored on a wild pitch. However, Waynesburg quickly tied the game by scoring twice in the top of the seventh.

Bevin started the nightcap and pitched nine innings. He struck out four while allowing five earned runs. Junior Evan Umland (Pasadena, Calif./La Canada) pitched the 10th and took the setback. 

Minnich owns a career-best 17-game hitting streak. It is the longest hitting streak for a Grove City player since Bubba Hamilton's 20-game hitting streak three years ago. 

The Wolverines will host Saint Vincent in a conference doubleheader Thursday at 2 p.m.