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Baseball: Titans Wrap up Season at Chatham

Box Score 1 | 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. 
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Players Mentioned

Hunter Stellato

#28 Hunter Stellato

RHP
5' 10"
Sophomore
R/R
Kolton Banfi

#38 Kolton Banfi

RHP
6' 2"
Freshman
R/R

Players Mentioned

Hunter Stellato

#28 Hunter Stellato

5' 10"
Sophomore
R/R
RHP
Kolton Banfi

#38 Kolton Banfi

6' 2"
Freshman
R/R
RHP

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