NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. -- The Grove City College baseball team dropped to 2-2 in the Presidents' Athletic Conference as host Westminster took both ends of a doubleheader Tuesday afternoon from the visiting Wolverines.

Westminster held off Grove City's ninth-inning rally in the opener for a 7-6 win. Freshman pitcher Noah Mackie (Gibsonia, Pa./Pine-Richland) fired a complete game for the Wolverines in the nightcap, but Westminster captured a 3-0 decision.

Grove City trailed 7-3 entering the ninth inning of Game One. Junior center fielder David Chandler (Leesburg, Va./St. John's) and junior right fielder Caleb Backos (Troy, Mich./Bloomfield Christian) opened the inning with consecutive singles. Chandler scored on a single by senior first baseman Colin Marinpetro (Imperial, Pa./West Allegheny).

A balk then respectively advanced Backos and Marinpetro to third base and second base. Backos scored on a groundout from freshman third baseman Nick Remish (Norritsown, Pa./Methacton) while Marinpetro came home when junior left fielder Dan Luko (Murrysville, Pa./Franklin Regional) grounded out. 

However, the Wolverines could not complete the comeback.

Junior catcher Adam Weber (McKees Rocks, Pa./Montour) doubled and singled for the Wolverines, who finished with 10 hits. Chandler went 2 for 3 and walked twice. 

Remish and sophomore second baseman Kallen Durbin (Harmony, Pa./Seneca Valley) both cracked run-scoring singles in the top of the first inning to give the Wolverines a 2-0 lead. Westminster scored in each of the first five innings, however, to take a 7-2 lead. Chandler singled in Weber in the top of the sixth.

Freshman pitcher Graham Romer (New Albany, Ohio/New Albany) started and threw three innings. He yielded six runs and took the defeat. Junior Bryce Trischler (Mars, Pa./Shady Side Academy) pitched the final five innings in relief. Trischler allowed one run and three hits while striking out three.

Mackie threw his first collegiate complete game in Game Two, striking out five in eight innings. Backos, Luko and Marinpetro all had two hits. 

The Wolverines will host Geneva in a conference doubleheader at 1 p.m. Saturday.