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Box Score 2 PITTSBURGH, Pa. – The Westminster College baseball team dropped two games to Chatham on the road Monday in their final doubleheader of the season, losing game one, 5-4, and game two, 2-1.
In game one, Chatham (12-23, 10-17 PAC) got out to an early 3-0 lead in the first inning and tacked on another run in the fourth inning. Westminster (13-21. 9-17 PAC) scored their first run in the fifth inning after graduate student
Tyler Barnot (Pittsburgh, PA / Bethel Park) grounded out and junior
Dawson Porter (Kittanning, PA / Armstrong) scored. In the sixth, junior
Sean Davis (Sharpsville, PA / Sharpsville) singled to right field to send classmate
Mike Grazier (Austintown, OH / Austintown-Fitch) home. Junior
Matt Costello (Castle, PA / Union Area)followed with a triple to right field, scoring Davis. Porter kept the momentum going and tied it up at 4-4 with a double to left field that brought Costello in. The Cougars scored the game-winning run in the seventh when Caleb Lehman singled to left field to drive in the final run of the game.
Junior pitcher
Logan Minch (Grove City, PA / Grove City Area) got the start for the Titans, tossing four innings, allowing eight hits and striking out three. Porter and Cinicola led the Titans on offense with a game-high three hits apiece and Porter tallying an RBI. Davis also notched two hits and one RBI for Westminster. Sophomore
Hunter Stellato (Struthers, OH / Struthers) tossed three innings in relief, scattering three hits and one run while striking out one while first-year
Kolton Banfi (Harrisville, PA / Franklin Area) tossed a scoreless inning in relief.
In game two, Chatham scored first again when Lehman tripled up the middle to drive in a run for the Cougars in the bottom of the third. Costello tied it back up at 1-1 in the top of the fourth, hitting an RBI-single to left center for the Titans. The Cougars regained the lead in the bottom of the fourth after scoring a run to go up 2-1. Chatham held onto that lead as both teams were scoreless in the last five innings.
First-year
Timothy Lewis (Southwest Harbor, ME / Wilmington Area) started on the mound for the Titans and pitched four innings, striking out two and allowing two hits.
Westminster ends the season with a 13-21 record and was 9-17 in the PAC.