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WAYNESBURG, Pa. (March 22) – The Waynesburg University baseball team rode a pair of outstanding starting pitching efforts to a doubleheader sweep of visiting Penn State Behrend on a frigid, sunny Friday. Sophomore J. Jay Paskert recorded his first complete-game shutout with the Yellow Jackets in a 3-0 win in game one. Freshman Brian Resnik gave up just one run over six innings pitched to score a victory in the Jackets' 10-3 triumph in game two.
 
Waynesburg (7-5) scored all the offense they needed in the first inning of the opener when senior third baseman Tim Chilcote slapped a two-run single that plated senior leftfielder Nick Berdine and junior centerfielder Clay Roman to put his team up 2-0. Waynesburg tacked on one more run in the fourth, when junior catcher Marc Timmons drove in Chilcote for the game's final score.
 
Paskert (2-1) scattered eight hits and didn't' walk a batter over seven innings of work. The first-year sophomore struck out three Lions (7-5) in the win. Chilcote paced Waynesburg's offense with a two-for-three showing at the plate. The Yellow Jackets picked up the win, despite being out-hit eight-to-six. All 14 hits in the game were singles.
 
Waynesburg led from start to finish for the second time on the day. After senior shortstop Kyle Sasala led the game off by reaching base on an error, he was bunted to second base by Roman and then driven home by Berdine, who singled through the left side of the infield.
 
Behrend had a golden opportunity to tie the game up, or take its first lead of the afternoon in the bottom of the opening frame by loading the bases with just one out on the board. However, Resnik was able to wiggle out of danger by inducing an inning-ending double play.
 
Two innings later, the Yellow Jacket bats lit up the scoreboard for six runs in the top of the third. Things started slowly, as the Jackets loaded the bases with nobody out before senior first baseman Bobby Hartman lifted a sacrifice fly to left field that scored Sasala and doubled Waynesburg's lead to 2-0. The host team kept things rolling with a run-scoring single by Chilcote that plated Roman for its third run of the game.
 
Two batters later, freshman catcher Derrick Zavatsky slipped a single through the left side of the infield to run the score to 4-0. After patiently piecing together its advantage, Waynesburg scored the eventual game-winning runs in spectacular fashion thanks to senior right fielder Adam Horning, who teed off on a three-run homer, his first of the season, that made the score 7-0. That blast ended the scoring in the top of the third, but it didn't take the Jackets long to get right back into the offensive swing of things.
 
Berdine led off the top of the fourth inning with a solo homerun, his team-leading third, to push his team's advantage to 8-0. Chilcote was hit by a pitch two batters later and moved into scoring position on a passed ball. With two outs on the board, Zavatsky drove in Waynesburg's ninth run on the day, further cementing its claim to victory.
 
The score remained 9-0 until the top of the sixth inning, when sophomore infielder Neal Yakopin, who came into the game to play shortstop, singled to center field to score reserve outfielder Kyle Weyand, who replaced Horning in right, and build his team's advantage to 10-0. The Lions scored a run in the sixth and two in the seventh, but it was too little, too late, as the Jackets were able to complete the sweep.
 
Berdine paced the Jackets at the plate by going three-for-three with two RBI and two runs scored. Horning collected two hits in three at-bats, drove in a game-high three runs and scored another. Chilcote and Zavatsky also connected on two hits each in the victory.
 
Resnik improved to 2-0 on the season by giving up just one run on six hits, five walks and a hit batsman over six innings of work. Freshman Aaron Gardocki and sophomore Sean Boyle combined to work the seventh-and-final inning of competition.
 
The sweep avenged last year's 8-7 loss to Penn State Behrend, which came in the first round of the ECAC South Tournament. The Jackets will try to keep its winning ways going on Monday, March 25, when they are scheduled to host Penn State Altoona for a doubleheader. First pitch is set for 1 p.m.