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Box Score 2 BEAVER FALLS, Pa. -- Washington & Jefferson swept a conference doubleheader from Geneva at 33rd Street Field on Saturday by scores of 16-1 and 6-1 to clinch the PAC regular-season championship and earn hosting rights for the Presidents' Athletic Conference Tournament (May 8-10) at Ross Memorial Park.
The Presidents (22-12, 17-2 PAC) won the PAC regular-season championship for the sixth consecutive year (2011 Co-Champs) and will host the league tournament for the eighth time in the past 10 seasons. W&J has finished as the PAC's top team in the regular season nine times in 12 years under the leadership of Head Coach
Jeff Mountain.
In the opener, W&J scored in every inning, including three in the first.
Josh Staniscia brought in the first run on a double and
Kyle Smith added a RBI single.
Derek McIlvaine had a hand in both second-inning runs as he singled home
Cory Bauer with the first run, then later stole third base and scored on an error.
Ronny Peirish's sacrifice fly scored a run in the third for a 6-0 lead and the Presidents tacked on four runs in each of the next two frames.
Nick Vento singled home a pair in the fourth, while McIlvaine, Staniscia and Peirish all had run-scoring singles in the fifth.
W&J finished the game with 17 hits and was aided by six Geneva errors. Staniscia was a home run shy of the cycle after going 3-for-4 with three RBI and three runs scored. Peirish also knocked in three, while McIlvaine went 3-for-4 and scored three times.
Matt Fry also scored twice.
Junior left-hander
Jared Baird improved to 4-0 on the mound after striking out a career-high nine batters. He limited Geneva (11-24, 7-13) to one run on six hits in five innings.
Staniscia singled in McIlvaine for a 1-0 lead in the first inning of game two and
Kyle Smith made it a 2-0 game in the third when scoring on
Kyle McLain's ground out. In the fifth inning, McLain's RBI triple and Peirish's RBI single upped the lead to 4-0 and W&J cruised to its 22nd victory.
Nick Kolat (2-0) tossed 4 1/3 scoreless innings (5H, 2BB, 4K) to earn the win for W&J. Staniscia had another three-hit game to up his school-record career hit total to 235. He also leads the Presidents with 33 runs batted in. McIlvaine scored twice to increase his team-high run total to 32.
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