LATROBE, Pa. -- It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon when the Allegheny College baseball team demolished Saint Vincent College in its final road conference games of the regular season.

The Gators (22-11, 13-5 PAC) mercy-ruled the Bearcats (10-24, 7-11 PAC) in both games, with the opener finishing 15-5 and the nightcap 16-5. With the two wins, Allegheny clinched a top-four seed in the upcoming Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Championship Tournament.

Allegheny 15, Saint Vincent 5
The Gators opened the scoring in the second inning. Two sacrifice flies and an error slingshot Allegheny ahead 3-0. Fighting back, the Bearcats tied the game in the third frame. Two RBI knocks brought home a pair of runs to square the game at three.

Ryan Dougherty (Wexford, Pa./North Allegheny) smoked a two-run shot over the left field wall in the fifth, and the Gators led the rest of the game.

The breaking point came in the fifth inning. Allegheny plated six runs, four unearned, on a pair of Bearcat mistakes defensively to take an 11-2 advantage. Jonathan Sharp (Chardon, Ohio/Notre Dame Cathedral Catholic) and Matt Jennings (Birmingham, Mich./Brother Rice) each registered RBIs. 

Despite two runs allowed in the bottom of the inning, the offense for Allegheny piled on four more runs the rest of the way.

Brent Herrmann (Canfield, Ohio/Canfield) threw a complete game in the seven-inning affair. He allowed six hits with six punchouts while picking up his fifth win of the year. 

Allegheny 16, Saint Vincent 5
Allegheny's bats stayed hot in the final game. The Gators scored 10 runs in the first three innings to blow the doors open, setting them up for the win.

Tyson Bryant-Dawson (Oakland, Calif./Manvel (Texas)) had a two-run home run in the second. He finished the second contest with seven RBIs. Adding to the fun was JD Robinson (Round Hill Va./Westgrove), picking up a pair of RBIs with an extra-base hit en route to the early lead.

Saint Vincent found the scoreboard in the bottom of the fourth inning before the Gators tacked on six more in the fifth and sixth frames.

Allegheny sent 10 men to the plate in the sixth, with five men picking up RBIs on a handful of hits. Brady Nolin (Cumberland, Maine/Greely) started the rally with a triple to the right-center gap. Later, Dougherty scored for the fourth time in the game after being singled in by William Wolff (Naples, Fla./Gulf Coast).

Dawson Thomas (Conneaut, Pa./Conneaut Area) looked sharp as the starter. He went 5.0 innings, allowing two runs on two hits with one walk and a strikeout. He earned his fifth win of the year.

Inside the Box Score - Game 1

• Allegheny scored 15 runs on 12 hits, and Saint Vincent totaled five runs on six hits.
• The Bearcats committed seven errors, and the Gators played clean defense.
• Dougherty had 3 RBIs, while Jennings, Wolff and Sharp brought home two runs each.
• Jennings, Robinson, Wolff and Anthony Maslo (Wexford, Pa./North Allegheny) led the offense with multi-hit games.
• Allegheny batters only stuck out three times and drew six walks.
• Hermann pitched all 7.0 innings, giving up five runs on six hits with as many strikeouts and one walk.

Inside the Box Score - Game 2

• The Gators tallied 16 runs on one less hit, and the Bearcats nabbed five runs on four hits.
• Each team committed one error.
• Every starter had at least one hit, and six Gators finished with two.
• Bryant-Dawson garnered a single-game career-high seven RBIs.
• Alejandro Samayoa (Katonah, New York/John Jay Cross River) had three RBIs and Robinson scored two more runs.
• Thomas, Mark Schweickert (Richmond, Va./John Randolph Tucker), Turner Bubeck (Katy, Texas/Katy) and William DeCicco III (Fairview, Ohio/Padua Franciscan) all threw for Allegheny.
• Thomas got the start and went 5.0 innings. The righty allowed a pair of runs and hits with one walk and one strikeout.

News and Notes

• Allegheny moved into third place in the PAC standings with a 13-5 record and can finish no worse than fourth with two conference games left to play.
• Jennings moves his hit streak to 26 games and his on-base streak to 33 in a row.
• Bryant-Dawson's seven RBIs are tied for the second most in Allegheny history for a single game.

Up Next
Allegheny will battle with Hilbert College on Tuesday, April 30. The road non-conference doubleheader begins at 1:00 p.m. in Hamburg, New York.