WASHINGTON, Pa. -- Senior pitcher Nick Guidas (Gibsonia, Pa./Pine Richland) fired eight shutout innings Wednesday afternoon while junior batterymate Sam DiStefano (Fairview, Pa./Fairview) went 3 for 4 with two doubles to help lead the Grove City College baseball team to a 4-0 victory over Westminster in the opening round of the Presidents' Athletic Conference Championship Tournament at Ross Memorial Park.

The second-seeded Wolverines will now face either No. 3 Waynesburg or No. 4 Allegheny at 6 p.m. Thursday in a winner's bracket game at Ross Memorial Park.

Guidas (6-3) struck out eight men and allowed three singles in his eight innings of work. Junior Evan Umland (Pasadena, Calif./La Canada) struck out two men in a perfect ninth inning.

Grove City (25-12) took a 1-0 lead in the fifth inning when junior shortstop Luke Vittone (Seven Fields, Pa./Eden Christian) singled with two outs, advanced to third on DiStefano's book-rule double and then came home on an error.

The Wolverines then added three two-out runs in the seventh inning. DiStefano sparked the rally with an infield single and later scored on a single by freshman left fielder Caison Holland (Freedom, Pa./Ambridge). Junior right fielder Josh Minnich(Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley) pushed the lead to 3-0 when he singled in freshman third baseman Sam Bevin(Louisville, Ky./Wake County).

Senior first baseman Markus Williams (Sewickley, Pa./Eden Christian) closed the scoring when his single brought in freshman pinch runner David Chandler (Leesburg, Va./St. John's). 

Holland, Minnich and Williams all went 2 for 4 as Grove City finished with 13 hits. 

Grove City has won eight straight games. The Wolverines split their regular season doubleheaders with both Allegheny and Waynesburg.