W&J extends winning streak to 15 with series sweep of Geneva

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WASHINGTON, Pa. – The Washington & Jefferson College baseball team rolled up 19 more runs on 28 hits as they completed a three-game sweep of Geneva College Saturday. The Presidents rolled to a 19-5 win over the visiting Golden Tornadoes in a Presidents' Athletic Conference game at Ross Memorial Park. 

The win was the 15th straight for W&J, who improves to 21-6 overall and 14-0 the PAC. Geneva drops to 8-19 overall and 4-10 in conference action. 

Serving as the visiting team, W&J jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Tyler Horvat (Irwin, Pa./Penn Trafford) led off with a single and scored on a two-run home run by Evan Sante (Pittsburgh, Pa./Plum). The home run was the fifth of the season, which is tied for the most in the PAC. 
 
The Presidents added five more runs on five hits in the second inning. Jason Gregovits (Avon Lake, Ohio/Avon Lake) tripled home Jacob LaDuca (Clarence, N.Y./Canisius) for the inning's first run. Peter Kalinski (Washington, D.C./Saint Johns College) singled to score Horvat. Two batters later, Scout Zaas (Powell, Ohio/Wellington School) singled in a pair of runs. 
 
W&J added two runs in both the third and fourth innings to extend the lead to 11-0. LaDuca made it 12-0 with an RBI triple to right center in the fifth. 
 
The Presidents tacked on five more runs in the top of the seventh. Kyle Jones (Donegal, Pa./Mount Pleasant) got into the act with an RBI single. Knox Meier (Tampa, Fla./Berkeley Prep) and Alec Jackson (Hudson, Ohio/Hudson) added RBI singles while Nolan Lutz (McDonald, Pa./South Fayette) ripped a two-run single to left to take a 17-0 lead. The GT's scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh to account for their lone offensive output of the day. 
 
W&J had seven players get at least two hits. LaDuca led W&J with a three-hit day. He finished a home run shy of the cycle. 
 
Jameson Campbell (Painesville, Ohio/Painesville Riverside) earned the win. He worked 2.2 innings and allowed just one hit.