MEADVILLE, Pa. -- The Allegheny College baseball team extended its win streak to seven consecutive games with a doubleheader sweep of Geneva College on a sun-filled Tuesday at Robert M. Garbark Field at the Robertson Athletic Complex.

Allegheny (19-7, 10-2 PAC) opened the twin bill with a 6-2 victory over the Golden Tornadoes (11-15, 3-9 PAC). The Gators then needed late-inning magic to help secure a thrilling 9-8 triumph in the nightcap to complete the sweep.

Allegheny 6, Geneva 2
The first half of Tuesday's doubleheader featured a little bit of everything: solid pitching, big hits, and a clean game by the Allegheny defense.

The Gators climbed out to an early lead with runs in the first, third, and fourth innings. In both the third and fourth innings, Tyson Bryant-Dawson (Oakland, Calif./Manvel (Texas)) and Brady Nolin (Cumberland, Maine/Greely) led off with doubles and came around to score on sacrifice flies. 

The Golden Tornadoes pushed across one run in the fifth to make it a 3-1 score, but their offense quickly sputtered with an inning-ending double play. It was the only run allowed by starter Walker Cunningham (Cambridge Springs, Pa./Cambridge Springs). Cunningham worked in and out of trouble but lasted 6.1 innings for his second win in as many starts. 

Insurance runs were scored in the seventh and eighth. Anthony Maslo (Wexford, Pa./North Allegheny) and Jonathan Sharp (Chardon, Ohio/Notre Dame Cathedral Latin) slugged back-to-back doubles in the seventh to plate one run. Sharp then scored on an errant throw by the Geneva catcher after swiping third base. In the eighth, Matt Jennings (Birmingham, Mich./Brother Rice) doubled and came around to score Allegheny's sixth and final run.

Allegheny 9, Geneva 8
The nightcap was a back-and-forth contest. At times, both sides looked as though they might run away with the win. Ultimately, Allegheny loaded the bases and walked off in the bottom of the ninth.

Geneva scored three runs in the top of the first, but the Gators responded with a four-spot in the second and three runs in the fourth to jump ahead 7-3. The lead didn't last long, as the Golden Tornadoes scored five unanswered runs across the fifth, sixth, and seventh innings. The biggest blow dealt by Geneva came from David Toruno, who kickstarted the comeback with a two-run home run in the fifth.

In the sixth, head coach Brandon Crum sent Ben Shields (Charleroi, Pa./Charleroi Area), who started as the designated hitter, to the mound. The Gators played the remainder of the game without a DH, which forced the coaching staff to execute a series of substitutions that paid dividends in the late innings.

In the bottom of the seventh, Antonio Rios (Alexandria, Va./Thomas Edison) provided a pinch-hit single that advanced Nolin to third. In the next at-bat, Andrew Stablewski (Buffalo, N.Y./St. Joseph's Collegiate Academy) came off the bench and hit a sac fly that evened the score at 8-all. 

In the ninth, the Gators loaded the bases. William Wolff (Naples, Fla./Gulf Coast) was hit by a pitch, Nolin reached via a bunt single, and Rios was intentionally walked to set up a force play at every base. Stablewski then provided the heroics. He made loud contact and drove the ball deep enough to right field to score the winning run with his second sac fly of the evening.

Inside the Box Score - Game 1

• Geneva outhit the Gators in the first game, 8-to-7.
• Five of Allegheny's seven hits were doubles.
• Bryant-Dawson and Nolin each had a team-high two hits, including one double apiece.
• Bryant-Dawson also paced the Gators with two runs scored.
• Cunningham struck out four and allowed seven hits in 6.1 innings of one-run ball.
• John Doney (Tampa, Fla./Tampa Prep) earned a save by pitching the final 2.2 innings with four strikeouts.

Inside the Box Score - Game 2

• Allegheny logged 14 hits, two more than Geneva.
• Unlike the first game, the Gators didn't produce an extra-base hit in the nightcap.
• Jennings finished 5-for-5 with two RBIs, two runs, and two stolen bases.
• Bryant-Dawson and JD Robinson (Round Hill, Va./Woodgrove) also had multiple hits with two each.
• Stablewski had two sac flies in his only plate appearances of the game.
• Mark Schweickert (Richmond, Va./John Randolph Tucker), typically one of the team's top starting pitchers, was the last of seven arms Allegheny employed.
• Schweickert struck out two of the three batters he faced in the ninth and earned the win on the mound.

News and Notes

• The Gators, winners of seven in a row, are now 19-7 overall and 10-2 against PAC opponents.
• Allegheny has won five consecutive meets against Geneva dating back to 2014.
• Jennings extended his hit streak to 19 straight games and has reached base in all 26 games this spring.
• With five hits in the second contest, Jennings finished one shy of the program's all-time single-game record.
• Doney's save in the early game marked the first of his career.

Up Next
Allegheny travels to Waynesburg University on Saturday, April 20, for a PAC doubleheader beginning at 1:00 p.m.