College baseball roundup: W&J sweeps PAC doubleheader
Washington & Jefferson used 27 hits to score 27 runs in sweeping its first doubleheader against Chatham, 14-4 and 13-3, Saturday at Ross Memorial Park.
W&J is 9-1 in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference and 17-9-1 overall.
Nine different Presidents had hits in the seven-inning opener. Leadoff hitter Mullen Socha led the offense by going 3-for-4 with two runs, four RBI and a triple. Luke Zahren was 2-for-3 with a double, triple, two runs and an RBI. Bryce Schnatterly pitched the first 5 2/3 innings to get the win and improve his record to 5-0.
Zahren homered in the second game, and Joey Bolick went 2-for-3 with a double and two RBI. Bolick also stole home. Ryan Sciullo also was 2-for-3 with two RBI and a triple. Pitcher Matt Heslin gave up one run over seven innings for his first win of the season.
• Waynesburg scored 27 runs but had to settle for a PAC doubleheader split with Saint Vincent. Waynesburg won the opener 16-10 before dropping the second game 16-11.
Waynesburg (3-7, 7-17) trailed 10-1 in the fifth inning of the opener before scoring nine times in the sixth inning. The Yellow Jackets’ Tyler Reis was 4-for-4 with a double, two-run homer and four RBI. Tyler Godwin hit a three-run homer and Brenden Kohan had a two-run shot, both coming in the big sixth inning. Pitcher Colton Uzzell was the winner in relief.
Saint Vincent (5-5, 9-13) scored nine runs in the fourth inning of the second game to forge a 10-2 lead. Justin Buberal homered for Waynesburg.
Saint Vincent’s Bobby Finn, a Venetia native and Peters Township graduate, hit three home runs in the second game, including two in one inning. Finn led off the fourth inning with a solo homer, smacked a three-run homer later in the fourth and added a two-run shot in the sixth. All three home runs were to left field.
Finn leads the PAC in home runs with seven.
• Jared Kollar and two relievers combined on a six-hit shutout in the opener, and Tyler Sullivan drove in three runs in the second game, as Seton Hill swept a PSAC West Division doubleheader from visiting California, 2-0 and 7-4, Saturday.
Seton Hill (9-7, 15-16) swept the four-game weekend series from Cal (7-9, 18-15).
Kollar pitched shutout ball over five innings and was followed on the mound by Trinity graduate Don McWreath and Kenny Wells. Each threw a scoreless inning with Wells getting his second save.
Tyler Eritz threw a complete game for Cal in the opener, allowing only four hits and one earned run.