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Waynesburg University Athletics

Waynesburg University Yellow Jackets
Ryan Opfer 042425
Connor Hoye
14
Winner Chatham CHATHAM 15-19
5
Waynesburg WAYNESBU 7-26
Winner
Chatham CHATHAM
15-19
14
Final
5
Waynesburg WAYNESBU
7-26
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Chatham CHATHAM 2 1 2 0 5 0 0 4 0 14 14 1
Waynesburg WAYNESBU 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 11 2

W: R. Baum (1-0) L: Opfer, Ryan (1-3) S: K. Mayle (1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Chatham gets even with Baseball

PITTSBURGH, Pa. (April 24) – The Waynesburg University baseball team fell to Chatham at West Field in Pittsburgh on Thursday night at West Field in Pittsburgh.

Waynesburg was designated as the home team as the game was the second half of the teams' Presidents Athletic Conference season series after yesterday's 17-inning Yellow Jacket (7-26, 3-13 PAC) victory on Vincent Turner's (Bridgeport, W.Va. / Bridgeport) walk-off home run. With the win, the Cougars (15-19, 7-9 PAC) stay alive for one of the final spots in the PAC Tournament.

The teams were tied at five after three innings, but Chatham plated five runs in the fifth and four in the eighth to pull away for the 14-5 victory.

Trent Giraffa (Hanover, Pa. / Delone Catholic) had an RBI single in the first and scored on Marcos Mendez's (Ponce, Puerto Rico / Westminster (Md.)) two-run double as the Jackets led 3-2 in the bottom of the first. 

Dalton Mount (Sykesville, Md. / Westminster) knocked in Noah Gabriel (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Shaler) with a single through the right side in the second and came around and scored on a three-base error as the Chatham right fielder misplayed the ground ball and it rolled all the way to the fence. Mount slid in ahead of the throw home to give the Jackets a 5-3 lead in the bottom of the second. 

Chatham tied the game with two runs in the top of the third. The Cougars pushed across five runs in the fifth with an RBI triple, bases loaded hit by pitch, sac fly and a two-out two-run single. Chatham tacked on four more runs two runs coming home on extra base hits and two more on a balk and wild pitch. The Cougars scored the final 11 runs of the ballgame to come away with the 14-5 win.

Waynesburg had nine different players record a hit in the ballgame. Alec Engelmore (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Shaler) went 3-for-4 with a double. Mendez drove in two with his double.

Ryan Opfer (Houston, Pa. / Chartiers-Houston) took the setback after allowing nine earned runs on nine hits in 4.1 innings. Hudson Pincavitch (Waynesburg, Pa. / Waynesburg Central) went 3.2 innings, allowing five earned on five hits. Mo Kiger (Waynesburg, Pa. / West Greene) worked a scoreless ninth with two strikeouts.

The Jackets host Geneva and celebrate Senior Day tomorrow at 1 p.m.
 
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