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Kolton Banfi
Jason Kapusta
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Oberlin OBE 5-4
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Winner Westminster (Pa.) WES 4-6
Oberlin OBE
5-4
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Final
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Westminster (Pa.) WES
4-6
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Oberlin OBE 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0
Westminster (Pa.) WES 0 0 0 4 2 0 X 6 9 0

W: Banfi, Kolton (2-2) L: W. Kennedy (1-1)

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Winner Oberlin OBERLIN 5-5
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Westminster (Pa.) WESTMINS 5-6
Winner
Oberlin OBERLIN
5-5
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Final
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Westminster (Pa.) WESTMINS
5-6
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Oberlin OBERLIN 1 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 7 15 0
Westminster (Pa.) WESTMINS 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 3 11 0

W: L. Rose (2-2) L: Exler, Logan (1-3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Westminster splits with Oberlin

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.--The Westminster College baseball team secured a non-conference split with Oberlin College Saturday afternoon, earning a 6-1 victory in game one before falling 7-3 in the nightcap.

The Titans are 5-7 this season while the Yeomen sit at 6-5 overall.

Westminster will travel to Showers Field in DuBois, Pa. Sunday to take on Penn State DuBois in a single nine-inning affair. The opening pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m. 

Game 1: Westminster 6, Oberlin 1
Senior righty Kolton Banfi (Harrisville, Pa., Franklin) was outstanding for the Titans in Saturday's opener, allowing one run (1 earned) on five hits with three strikeouts in the complete-game effort. Now 2-2 this spring, Banfi did not issue a walk in the win. Senior designated hitter Jake Dockum (Fairport, N.Y., Allendale Columbia) and senior center fielder Matthew Randza (Beaver Falls, Pa., Blackhawk) both went 2-for-3. Dockum had a double and run scored while Randza scored a pair of runs. 

Five different players had hits for Oberlin. William Kennedy took the loss in relief of starter Jay Aghanya. Kennedy allowed four runs (4 earned) on six hits in one inning. Aghanya limited Westminster batters to one hit with four walks and three strikeouts in three innings.

Grayson Black's two-out, RBI single in the top of the first staked the Yeomen to an early 1-0 lead. Westminster ripped off four runs in the fourth, bookended by senior third baseman Donald Shimko's (Greensburg, Pa., Greater Latrobe) run-producing single and an RBI base hit by senior senior second baseman Logan Murgenovich (Aliquippa, Pa., Central Valley). Junior pinch hitter David Kelly (Gibsonia, Pa., Eden Christian Academy) delivered an RBI single two batters before Shimko scored on a wild pitch. The Titans scratched out two additional runs in the fifth inning when junior shortstop Braeden Campbell (Glenshaw, Pa., Shaler) drew a bases-loaded walk a batter before Shimko scored on another wild pitch. 

Game 2: Oberlin 7, Westminster 3
Oberlin scored single runs in the first and second. Kyle Baxt had an RBI single that scored Brady Groves, who led off with a single of his own, to get things going before Groves' two-out, run-scoring single in the second. The Yeoman combined for five hits in the first two innings. With a two-run lead in the fourth, Groves delivered a two-out, two-run single before Baxt's two-run single in the fifth. Down 6-0, freshman left fielder Nate Demchak (Monroeville, Pa., Gateway), making his first collegiate start, smoked a two-out, two-run home run to left field to cut the lead to 6-2. It was the first home run of his career.

Harry Kaplan and Kelly traded RBI base hits in the sixth. 

Eight players for Westiminster had hits. Shimko and Dockum each had two hits. Shimko is riding an eight-game hitting streak. Dockum also scored a run. Fifth-year right fielder Carter Chinn (Grove City, Pa., Grove City) singled and had a stolen base in the fifth. Senior left-hander Logan Exler (Pittsburgh, Pa., Serra Catholic) fell to 1-3 this season with the loss, allowing six runs (6 earned) on 10 hits with three strikeouts in four innings. Junior righty Wyatt Walker (Venetia, Pa., Peters Township), senior righty Trevor Leighty (Wooster, Ohio, Wooster) and sophomore right-hander Tyler Parsons (Hebron, Ky., Conner) combined to three three scoreless innings of relief. Leighty allowed one hit in the eighth inning. 

Groves finished 4-for-5 with three RBIs and a run scored. Kaplan went 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Oberlin finished with 15 hits in game two. Liam Rose threw seven strong innings to even his season record at 2-2. He allowed three runs (3 earned) on 10 hits with a walk and a strikeout. Micah Rodriguez struck out four and walked one in a pair of scoreless relief innings. 
 
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