After suffering an 18-4 loss to Seton Hill in Saturday's PSAC opener at Point Stadium, Pitt-Johnstown battled back to earn the split with a 5-4 victory in the nightcap and give head Coach Todd Williams his 500^th career victory.  The Mountain Cats are now 21-17 overall and 9-11 in the PSAC Western Division.
 
Williams, already Pitt-Johnstown's all-time "winningest" baseball coach, took over the Mountain Cat program in 1998 and has led Pitt-Johnstown to its only two NCAA Division II Regional Tournament appearances.
 
After a rough first season, Williams began to turn the program around and finished 21-16 in 1999 and 23-19 in 2000. These marked the first 20-win seasons since 1982 when Coach Williams was a pitcher/infielder on the Pitt-Johnstown baseball team.
 
Williams has led the Mountain Cats to 10 20-or-more-win seasons, and four 30-or-more wins seasons.
 
The 2006 season was highlighted with the team setting another school record for wins with a 33-18 record and earning the No. 6-seed in the NCAA North Atlantic Region Tournament. In 2008, the Mountain Cats broke the 2006 wins record by posting a 37-19-1 record, winning the WVIAC Northern Division and advancing to the program's second NCAA regional tournament.
 
Williams has produced 17 All-Atlantic Region players, including seven First-Team selections, and Jake Warner, a First-Team All-American in 2013.  In addition, nine players were All-WVIAC First-Team choices, before Kyle Morrow became the programs initial First-Team All-PSAC selection in 2014.  In 2015, Mike Palkovitz became the program's first Second-Team All-PSAC selection.
 
The Mountain Cats also have done the job in the classroom with five Verizon Academic All-Americans. In 2001, outfielder Mike Shumaker became the first Mountain Cat to garner First-Team Academic All-America honors. In 2009, pitcher Ben Watkins, the WVIAC and Daktronics Atlantic Region Pitcher of the Year, joined Shumaker as a First-Team Academic All-American. The Mountain Cat program boasts a 94 percent graduation rate for its players.
 
Following the 2009 season, Watkins became the first Mountain Cat under Williams to be selected in the Major League Baseball Draft when the New York Yankees selected him in the 40th round.  Then, in 2012, fellow pitcher Kaleb Fleck signed a free-agent contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks.  Fleck advanced through the system to AAA in 2015.
 
In the opener, Chris Law's two-run single in the top of the first put Seton Hill on top of the first, before the Griffins added three more in the second on a pair of Dylan Heid wild pitches and a Tommy Pellis fielder's choice RBI that scored Andrew Chuba.
 
Pitt-Johnstown answered with a pair of runs in the bottom of the second.  Tyler Treese doubled, Asher Corl singled, and Lennox Pugh's single through the left side plated Treese to get the Mountain Cats on the scoreboard.   Two batters later, Owen McKeever's fielder's choice chased home Asher Corl to make it 5-2.
 
Seton Hill got both of those runs back in the top of the third, and Nick Stotler's three-run home run highlighted a four-run fourth inning for the Griffins that increased it to 11-2.
 
 The Griffins continued to add runs and walked away with the 18-4 victory.
 
McKeever had two RBI, and Pugh had two hits for the Mountain Cats.
 
Heid took the loss and dropped to 5-4 after giving up five runs on one hit over the first 1 1/3 innings.
 
The Griffins belted three home runs and got three RBI from Stotler and three hits from Chris Law.
 
Jared Kollar picked up the win after holding the Mountain Cats to two runs on six hits over the first five innings.  Kollar also struck out 11.
 
In game two, Zach Zinn's infield RBI single, followed by a Tyler Smith double that scored Zinn and Pugh gave the Mountain Cats a 4-0 fourth inning lead.
 
Seton Hill quickly regained the lead with four runs in the top of the fifth, but Pitt-Johnstown answered with two more in the bottom of the frame.  Dylan Broderick singled home Dylan Kerstetter to knot it at four, and Pugh's single to center plated pinch runner Scott Kuczala to give the lead back to the Mountain Cats for good.
 
Braxton Roxby held the Griffins off the scoreboard the final two inning to finish the complete-game and improve to 5-3.  Roxby allowed four runs on five hits, while striking out 12 and walking three.
 
Pugh went 2-for-3 with an RBI and Smith drove in a pair to pace Pitt-Johnstown.
 
With the split, Seton Hill remained one game ahead of the Mountain Cats in the PSAC Western Division standings.  The Griffins are now 23-19 overall and 12-10 in conference-play.
 
Pitt-Johnstown wraps-up the four-game PSAC series with Seton Hill on Sunday in Greensburg, before playing a pair of conference games at Slippery Rock on Tuesday.