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Westminster WES 20-19
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Winner W & J WJC 29-12
Westminster WES
20-19
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Final
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W & J WJC
29-12
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Westminster WES 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 8 3
W & J WJC 2 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 X 8 14 2

W: Tyler Horvat (11-2) L: Vitale, Jake (5-4) S: Dante DiMatteo (4)

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Game Recap: Baseball |

Titans fall to W&J to open PAC Championship Tournament

WASHINGTON, Pa.--The Westminster College baseball team suffered an 8-4 opening game loss to Washington & Jefferson College on day one of the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Championship Tournament Thursday. 

Top-seeded W&J (29-12) is hosting the four-team, double-elimination championship tournament at Alexandre Stadium. 

Westminster, the No. 4 seed, fell to 20-19 with Thursday's loss. The Titans will play at 3 p.m. Friday in the championship tournament's first elimination game against the loser of No. 2 Grove City College and No. 3 Saint Vincent College.

Junior right fielder Carter Chinn (Grove City, Pa. | Grove City) drilled a one-out solo home run in the first inning to give Westminster a 1-0 lead. Chinn also homered against W&J in last year's Game A loss. 

W&J responded with a pair of two-out runs in the bottom of the inning to go up 2-1.

Sophomore third baseman Braeden Campbell (Glenshaw, Pa. | Shaler) led off the second with a single to right and later scored on a sacrifice fly by junior first baseman Jake Dockum (Fairport, N.Y. | Allendale Columbia). Junior shortstop Logan Murgenovich (Aliquippa, Pa. | Central Valley) delivered a two-out RBI single that scored junior catcher Chase Tomko (Hermitage, Pa. | West Middlesex) to give Westminster a 3-2 lead.

The Presidents plated a pair of runs in the bottom of the second to go up 4-3 before posting single runs in both the third and fourth innings. After scoreless fifth and sixth innings and leading 6-3, W&J scored twice in the seventh to go up 8-3.

Junior left fielder Matthew Randza (Beaver Falls, Pa. | Blackhawk) was hit by a pitch with one out in the eighth and later scored on Tomko's sacrifice fly.

W&J outhit Westminster 14-8. Seven of W&J's eight runs were scored with two outs. 

Campbell went 3-for-4. It was his 12th multi-hit game this season. Chinn's first inning home run was his first of the season. He is riding a 14-game hitting streak. 
 
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Scoring Summary

Score By Innings
Play WES WJC
WES TOP 1st Chinn homered to right center, RBI (0-0). 1 0
WJC BOT 1st Zaas singled to center field, RBI (2-2 FBFB); Sante advanced to second; Lutz scored. 1 1
WJC BOT 1st LaDuca singled up the middle, RBI (1-2 KBK); Zaas advanced to second; Sante scored. 1 2
WES TOP 2nd Dockum flied out to rf, SF, RBI (0-0); Tomko advanced to third; Campbell scored. 2 2
WES TOP 2nd Murgenovich singled to right field, RBI (1-0 B); Cooper advanced to second; Tomko scored. 3 2
WJC BOT 2nd Lutz singled to center field, advanced to third (2-0 BB); Scheider advanced to third, scored on a throwing error by cf. 3 3
WJC BOT 2nd Lutz scored on a wild pitch, unearned. 3 4
WJC BOT 3rd Dezenzo doubled to left field, RBI (2-1 KBB); LaDuca scored. 3 5
WJC BOT 4th Zaas doubled to right field, ground-rule, RBI (0-0); Sante scored. 3 6
WJC BOT 7th Lutz reached on a fielding error by ss up the middle (1-2 BKK); Scheider scored, unearned. 3 7
WJC BOT 7th Sante doubled to center field, RBI (0-1 K); Lutz scored, unearned. 3 8
WES TOP 8th Tomko lined out to lf, SF, RBI (1-0 B); Randza scored. 4 8

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