STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- The Grove City College baseball team captured both ends of a Presidents' Athletic Conference doubleheader Saturday afternoon at Franciscan, winning the opener 13-3 and then capturing a 15-8 victory in Game Two. The nightcap win is the 200th win at Grove City for ninth-year head coach Matt Royer. 

Grove City (20-12, 11-5 PAC) scored in eight of nine innings in Game One as six men had multi-hit performances. Junior right fielder Josh Minnich (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley) cracked a pair of triples and also doubled while sophomore third baseman Kenny Lavrich (Franklin, Pa./Cranberry) homered as part of a 2-for-3 outing. 

Senior second baseman Lucca Baccari (Irwin, Pa./Penn Trafford) went 3 for 4 with a double and freshman left fielder Caison Holland (Freedom, Pa./Ambridge) also finished 3 for 4. Senior first baseman Markus Williams (Sewickley, Pa./Eden Christian) doubled and singled while freshman DH Treyton Sarvis (Chambersburg, Pa./Chambersburg) went 2 for 2 with three runs scored. 

Junior shortstop Luke Vittone (Seven Fields, Pa./Eden Christian) tripled as Grove City finished with 16 hits. 

Grove City scored single runs in each of the first two innings of the opener. Williams singled in Holland in the first while Sarvis scored on a second-inning groundout from junior catcher Sam DiStefano (Fairview, Pa./Fairview). 

Holland and Lavrich both had run-scoring singles in the fourth, doubling the lead. Both men then scored on Minnich's triple to center. Lavrich's solo home run in the sixth inning pushed the lead to 8-0. He and DiStefano drove in runs drove in runs with groundouts in the seventh.

Williams doubled in Minnich in the eighth, then later came in on Sarvis's second sacrifice fly of the game. 

Freshman pitcher Jack Houston (Vienna, Va./Vienna) earned the win by pitching 5 2/3 innings. Houston (3-1) struck out five men while allowing two earned runs. Freshman Ross Morrow (McKean, Pa./General McLane) pitched 2 1/3 innings of relief and allowed one run. The game ended after eight innings due to the 10-run rule. 

The Wolverines pounded out nine extra-base hits in Game Two, highlighted by Vittone's two home runs. Williams also cracked a home run while Minnich laced three doubles. Williams, junior catcher Aaron Gault (Youngstown, Ohio/Heartland Christian) and freshman third baseman Sam Bevin (Louisville, Ky./Wake County) all doubled. 

Bevin finished 3 for 5 with three runs scored. Minnich went 3 for 5 and drove in four runs while Williams finished 3 for 6. Baccari finished 2 for 3 with three runs scored and Gault collected a pair of hits. 

Williams broke a 1-1 tie in the third inning with a two-run homer. Vittone followed with a solo home run, his first clout of the season. Bevin and Minnich both cracked two-run doubles in the fourth inning, pushing the lead to 8-1. Vittone then launched a two-run home run to put Grove City up 10-1 in the fourth inning. 

Minnich added a two-run double in the fifth inning while Gault doubled in Baccari to cap Grove City's scoring in the sixth inning. 

Freshman pitcher Clay Dean (Smock, Pa./Uniontown) earned his first collegiate win by pitching five innings. He fanned four men while allowing five earned runs. Freshman James Hensell (Pittsburgh, Pa./Central Catholic) allowed an unearned run in his three innings of relief. He struck out two. 

Senior Christian Hoffmann (Venetia, Pa./Peters Township) closed out the win with a scoreless ninth inning. 

Royer took over as Grove City head coach in 2016 after previous stints as head coach at Wheaton (Ill.), Kutztown and Liberty. He has 670 wins as a head coach at four-year colleges. Last year, Grove City won a program-record 30 games. This year marks the fifth straight full season in which the Wolverines have won 20 or more games. 

Minnich now owns a 21-game hitting streak, which is the longest for a Grove City player since Andy Fritz hit in 27 straight games during the 2015 and 2016 seasons. 

Grove City closes its home schedule Monday at 1 p.m. when the Wolverines host league leader W&J (15-1 PAC) at Jack Behringer Field. The Wolverines need one win to clinch a spot in the six-team conference tournament, which will be held May 8-11.