WAYNESBURG, Pa. – The first week of the season went pretty well for the Geneva College baseball team.  Unfortunately, not much went well in Geneva's second week, with the Golden Tornadoes getting swept at Waynesburg on Saturday afternoon by scores of 15-3 and 12-2.  Only the first game counted in the conference standings.  Waynesburg earned its first two wins of the season to move to 2-4 overall, 1-4 in the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC), while Geneva fell to 2-3 overall, 2-2 in the PAC.

The first game was close through the first three innings, with each team scoring once to tie the score at 1-1.  Waynesburg got to senior starter Dylan O'Rourke (Hutchinson, Pa./Yough) in the bottom of the fourth, thanks to a key two-out Geneva error.  The Yellow Jackets scored once prior to the error, but Waynesburg took advantage of the miscue to add three more runs, taking a 5-1 lead.

Geneva responded with two runs in the top of the fifth, with freshman David Toruno's (Menifee, Cali./Paloma Valley) RBI-triple the key at-bat in the inning.  Geneva had a chance to add more, but the Golden Tornadoes let a bases-loaded, one-out situation get away without adding any more runs.

Waynesburg responded with two runs of its own in the bottom of the fifth, with a Geneva error contributing to the Yellow Jackets' offense.  Waynesburg then put the game away against the Golden Tornado bullpen, scoring five times in the seventh and three times in the eighth to win 15-3. 

O'Rourke took the loss, pitching 5.2 inning while giving up 11 hits, seven runs (three earned) and striking out three.  Geneva's offense managed only six hits.

In game two, Geneva scored twice in the first inning, with senior Garrison Wieland (Sharpsville, Pa./Sharpsville) contributing an RBI-single, but Waynesburg responded with four runs in the bottom of the inning off sophomore starter Timothy Munz (Euclid, Ohio/Lake Catholic).

The Yellow Jackets added two runs in the third, one in the fourth, and then five in the sixth in the 12-2 seven-inning Waynesburg win.

Munz took the loss, pitching 4.0 innings and giving up eight hits, seven runs (four earned) and three strikeouts.  Once again, the Geneva offense struggled, coming up with just four hits.

"Not much went well for us today," said Head Coach Alan Sumner.   "We didn't pitch very well, our defense let us down at key times, and our offense, which carried us last week, never got going today."

Geneva will be back in action on Monday as the Golden Tornadoes host Waynesburg in a doubleheader beginning at 1:00 p.m.  The doubleheader was originally scheduled for Friday but was pushed back because of weather.  Both games will count in the PAC standings.


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