BEAVER FALLS, Pa. (April 25) – The Waynesburg University baseball team played its final Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) road doubleheader of the season on Saturday when it traveled to Geneva. The Yellow Jackets were swept by the final scores of 9-5 and 13-12.
 
Waynesburg (11-26, 2-17) opened the day's scoring in the top of the second inning of game one when sophomore Kaden Flambard (Bethel Park, Pa. / Bethel Park) singled in freshman Brody McMillan (Griffin, Ga. / North Henderson). Unfortunately, the advantage only lasted until the bottom of the frame, when Geneva (16-16, 8-12) posted a pair of scores.
 
The home team added a run in the third and two more in the fourth to go up 5-1 heading into the top of the fifth, when the Jackets got two of those tallies back. Freshman Sam Watson (Morgantown, W.Va. / Morgantown) scored on a single by senior Hunter Hamilton (Holbrook, Pa. / West Greene). Freshman Eli Boring (Latrobe, Pa. / Greater Latrobe) scored his team's third run during the ensuing at-bat on a wild pitch.
 
Geneva recovered the two runs in the bottom of the sixth to go up 7-3. Waynesburg trimmed the deficit back to three in the top of the eighth thanks to an RBI double by senior Mason Leonard (Latrobe, Pa. / Greater Latrobe) that scored Flambard.
 
The home team scored its final two runs of the opener in the bottom of the eighth to go up 9-4. The Orange and Black tried to rally in the top of the ninth. Hamilton walked with one out, junior Trent Giraffa (Hanover, Pa. / Delone Catholic) singled and McMillan loaded the bases with a single of his own. Junior Alex Ashbery (Moon Township, Pa. / Moon) worked a bases-loaded walk to bring up the final score of 9-5 and keep the bases full. Unfortunately, a flyout followed by a groundout halted the comeback try and the game.
 
Hamilton, McMillan, Flambard and Leonard logged two hits to pace the Jacket offense. Five different Waynesburg pitchers toed the rubber in game one, including senior Nolan Dunn (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Carrick) and sophomore Conner Storey (Vienna, W.Va. / Parkersburg), who each logged a hitless inning of relief.
 
Defensive miscues ultimately decided the opener, as four Waynesburg errors led to six unearned runs.
 
Game two was a chaotic nine innings that featured 25 runs, 32 hits, 10 errors and 11 walks.
 
Once again, the Jackets took the first lead as junior Ian Trott (Clairton, Pa. / Pittsburgh Central Catholic) blasted his first collegiate homerun to put his team up 1-0 in the top of the first inning. Just like the opener, that early advantage didn't last, as Geneva recorded a four-spot in the bottom of the frame.
 
The visiting team got two of those runs back thanks to a two-out, two-run triple from freshman Eli Boring (Latrobe, Pa. / Greater Latrobe).
 
Geneva regained a three-run advantage (6-3) with two in the bottom of the second and made the score 7-3 in the third. Waynesburg fired back with an RBI single by Boring in the fourth, but the home team seemed to gain firm control in the fourth with a three-run double that made the score 10-4.
 
A sacrifice fly RBI by senior Noah Gabriel (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Shaler) in the fifth made it 10-5, but the Jackets' big inning was coming in the sixth.
 
Geneva committed four errors and Waynesburg took advantage of those to score five runs on just three hits. Boring posted the first tally of the rally on an error, before Hamilton, who reached base on a single, scored on another defensive mishap. Gabriel and Flambard posted back-to-back RBI singles to make the score 10-9, before Gabriel came in to tie things up at 10-10 on error number four.
 
To the home team's credit, it regained its composure and scored three go-ahead runs, all of which were unearned, in the seventh to surge ahead 13-10.
 
Waynesburg fired back in the top of the ninth and looked poised to force the game into a final half-inning. Sophomore Landen Lydick (Woodsfield, Ohio / Monroe Central) led off with a single and Boring followed with one of his own. A throwing error allowed Lydick to score, before singles by Trott and Giraffa loaded the bases.
 
An RBI groundout by McMillan pulled the Jackets to within one of retying the game at 13-12, but Geneva retired the next batter to bring a long, tiring day to an end.
 
Boring and Flambard both went 4-for-5 at the dish to lead the Jacket bats, with Boring coming a homerun shy of the cycle. Giraffa added a trio of knocks, while Trott and McMillan added a pair of hits each.
 
Four different pitchers took the mound for Waynesburg. The final two, senior Zach Scibelli (Ravenna, Ohio / Ravenna) and sophomore Alex Pritchard (Beaver Falls, Pa. / Blackhawk) combined to not allow an earned run over 4.2 innings of work.
 
With final exams being held at Waynesburg this week, the Jackets won't be back on the diamond until Saturday, May 2, when they play their final two games of the season in a PAC doubleheader against Thiel. First pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m.