Seton Hill scored a run in the bottom of the seventh to earn a 4-3 walk-off win over Pitt-Johnstown in Sunday's PSAC opener in Greensburg, before scoring a run in the bottom of the sixth in the nightcap to complete the sweep with a 6-5 victory. The Mountain Cats are now 21-19 overall and 9-13 in the PSAC West.
In the opener, Pitt-Johnstown took a 1-0 second inning lead when
Scott Thompson drew a two-out walk and scored on
Tyler Treese's double to right field.
The Mountain Cats held that lead until Seton Hill answered with a pair of unearned runs in the bottom of the fourth. Chris Law and Bankovich each singled and scored on a Pitt-Johnstown error that put the Griffins in front, 2-1.
In the Pitt-Johnstown sixth,
Jack Shirk doubled and scored on a
Lennox Pugh base hit to tie it, and Thompson's single to left plated pinch-runner
Scott Kuczala to give the lead back to the Mountain Cats.
Parker Denny's sacrifice fly in the Griffins half of the sixth knotted it at three, before Seton Hill scored a run in the bottom of the seventh to walk-off with the 4-3 win. Austin Braendel singled and moved to third on a Craig Lewis base hit. Isaiah DiAndreth then followed with a pinch-hit single down the left field line that scored Braendel.
Eric Ford took the loss for Pitt-Johnstown after giving up the run in the seventh in relief of starter
Ben Foose. Foose tossed the first five innings and held the Griffins to three runs (1 earned) on three hits, while striking out six and walking one.
Pugh and Treese each had two hits and drove in a run for the Mountain Cats, while Shirk added a double.
Kenny Wells pitched the final 1 2/3 innings for Seton Hill and limited Pitt-Johnstown to one hit to improve to 3-1.
In game two, DiAndreth's solo homer in the bottom of the second gave the Griffins a 1-0 advantage.
Seton Hill added two more runs in the fourth on DiAndreth's RBI single and Brandon Kline's squeeze bunt, before two more runs in the fifth increased it to 5-0.
Pitt-Johnstown came back with five runs in the top of the sixth, highlighted by
Asher Corl's three-run double and
Tyler Treese's double that knotted it at five.
However, Andrew Chuba's single down the right field line off of Pitt-Johnstown reliever
Jake Ansell plated Tommy Pellis from second to put the Griffins back in front in the bottom of the sixth.
The Mountain Cats put runners on first and second to start the top of the seventh, but Caiden Wood struck out the next three hitters to preserve the 6-5 win for Seton Hill.
Corl went 2-for-3 with three RBI, while Smith had two hits and drove in one, and
Dylan Kerstetter collected two hits for Pitt-Johnstown.
With the sweep, the Griffins improved to 25-19 overall and 14-10 in the PSAC Western Division.
Pitt-Johnstown travels to PSAC doubleheaders at Slippery Rock on Tuesday and Clarion on Friday, before wrapping-up the regular season and celebrating Senior Day with two games against Clarion on Saturday starting at 1 p.m. at Point Stadium.
