Baseball: W&J’s Nogay ties record with 26th win
Senior pitcher Eddie Nogay matched the school record with his 26th career victory as Washington & Jefferson scored a pair of Presidents’ Athletic Conference shutouts over visiting Thiel, 5-0 and 3-0, Saturday.
Nogay, who improved his career record to 26-2, scattered three hits in the opener as he tied 2007 graduate Sam Mann for the school record in wins and shutouts (6).
Nick Vento tripled and homered, and D.J. Michalski doubled and drove in two runs, for the Presidents (8-1, 13-8).
In the second game, pitchers Brian O’Neill and Kyle McClain combined on a five-hitter for W&J. McClain earned a save, his seventh of the season, to tie the school record.
McClain, who started at shortstop, also doubled and scored the first run for the Presidents.
Thiel is 0-9, 6-14.
• Burgettstown High School gradaute Brian Resnik threw a four-hit shutout as Waynesburg won the opening game of a PAC doubleheader over Geneva, 1-0, before dropping the nightcap, 3-2.
The Yellow Jackets (5-2, 9-13) won the opener in the bottom of the seventh as Eric Crum, who had three hits, drove in the winning run.
Zach Ackerman had three hits and drove in two runs for Geneva (3-7, 7-16), which overcame a 2-0 deficit by scoring a run in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings.
Trinity graduate Neal Yakopin had two hits in the second game for Waynesburg.