Baseball Sweeps CCAC in 3 Games

Saturday afternoon saw the Westmoreland County Community College Baseball team take the short trip over to the Community College of Allegheny County's Boyce campus for a NJCAA Region 20 doubleheader with the Wildcat's, before returning home for a single 9 inning game with CCAC as well on Sunday. 

Westmoreland put two runs on the board in the first inning thanks to two RBI ground outs by Owen Saiani and Jake Domkowski. Jake Sincak had 2 of the Wolfpack's six hits, while Darren DeRiggi, Jake Gedekoh, and Mckenzie Mills had the Wolfpack's other four hits.  Mills and Owen Dumbroski added in the other two RBI's in Westmoreland's 4-0 win.

Sophomore Erik Struessnig got the win for Westmoreland allowing only four hits and zero runs over seven innings.  He struck out seven batters while only walking one. 

 Game two saw Westmoreland get out to a 9-run lead in the first four innings, and holding on for a 9-8 victory.

Westmoreland jumped out to the lead in the top of the first inning from hits from Domkowski that scored a run.  That was followed by Gedekoh's 2 RBI double.

The Wolfpack plated another run in the second inning on a Sincak sac fly.

A sac fly by DeRiggi moved Westmoreland to a 5-0 lead in the third.

Four more runs crossed the plate in the fourth to balloon the lead to 9-0. Domkowski doubled, scoring two runs, and Gedekoh hit an inside the park home run, scoring a run.

Freshman Myles Beavin earned his second win of the season, giving up two hits and three earned runs over six innings of work.  Beavin struck out eight batters, and walking four. After a comeback in the 7^th inning, Riley Smith came in and put the fire out earning his for save of the season.

Sunday saw the finally between these two teams this season as they played a 9-inning single game at Westmoreland.  The theme of the weekend was solid starting pitching, and Freshman Jake Kitz gave his best performance of the season going all 9 innings for the complete game.  He let up two runs in the first and two runs in the fifth and that was it.  Kitz struck out three batters, and did not walk anyone. 

The offence was led by three hits by DeRiggi and two from Sean Franzi, who was names NJCAA Region 20 Play of the Month for March.  Tyler Davis collected his first hit of the season in the Wolfpack's 12-4 win.

With the three-game sweep, the Wolfpack now move to 19-9 on the season, and will have a busy week ahead of them as they prepare to play Garrett College on Tuesday for a single 9-inning game, followed with back to back doubleheaders at Anne Arundel and then at home verse Frederick for Sophomore Day.