After dropping Friday's first game of a PSAC doubleheader at Seton Hill, 8-3,
Jack Shirk had three hits and hit a two-run home run, and
Dan Clark added a three-run homer and four RBI to help the Mountain Cats get the split with a 9-6 win in the nightcap. The Mountain Cats are now 14-20 overall and 4-10 in the PSAC Western Division.
In the opener, Seton Hill opened-up a 4-0 lead in the second inning, but Pitt-Johnstown came back with two in the third.
Tanner Cook singled to lead off the inning and scored on a Seton Hill fielding error, and
Brett Hileman's single to center plated
Dillon Boyer.
The Griffins scored another run in the fourth, before Hileman RBI single in the Mountain Cats' fifth cut it to 5-3.
Seton Hill added one more in its half of the fifth and two more in the sixth and went on to the 8-3 win.
Hileman went 4-for-4 and accounted for both Mountain Cat RBI, and Boyer had two hits.
Evan Appleby,
Tanner Cook, and
Dylan Kerstetter also had hits for Pitt-Johnstown.
Brady Walker took the loss and fell to 2-3 after allowing six runs on 10 hits over the first five innings.
Camden Hess pitched the sixth and gave up one run on two Seton Hill hits.
Tyler Sullivan, Tom McCarthy, and M.P. Buckley all had two RBI for the Griffins. Tyler Morder picked-up the win after holding Pitt-Johnstown to a pair of runs on nine hits.
In game two, Mark Colella's two-run homer run off of Pitt-Johnstown starter
Brantley Rice gave the Griffins an early 3-0 first inning lead.
Pitt-Johnstown answered with three runs in the third. Shirk led-off with a double and moved to third on
Scott Thompson's bunt single. Clark singled home Shirk and Thompson scored on an error by Seton Hill left fielder Adam Ferita.
Joe Gagliardi followed with an RBI single to center field that tied it at three.
In the Pitt-Johnstown fourth, Shirk, who already doubled twice, connected for a two-run homer to give the Mountain Cats their first lead at 5-3.
Colella's run-producing base hit in the fifth got the Griffins to within one, but Pitt-Johnstown answered right back with a three-run home run from Clark in the top of the sixth to build the lead to 8-4.
The Mountain Cats added an insurance run in the sixth on Cook's solo home run.
Seton Hill scored two runs off of
Tyler Black in the seventh, but Black was able to work out of the jam to record the three-inning save.
Shirk went 3-for-4 with two doubles and a two-run home run, while Clark had two this, including the three-run homer, and four RBI to lead the Mountain Cats. Cook singled and homered and Kerstetter added two hits.
Rice earned the win and improved to 4-2 after holding Seton Hill to three runs on five hits in four innings of work.
With the split, the Griffins are now 21-13 overall and 7-7 in the PSAC West.
Pitt-Johnstown hosts a PSAC doubleheader against Seton Hill on Saturday at 1 and 3 p.m. at Point Stadium, before traveling to Clarion for a conference doubleheader on Friday.
