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Baseball: Cal, Waynesburg gain splits

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David Marcus drove in three runs and John Orr homered as California earned a split of a PSAC doubleheader with Mercyhurst, winning the nightcap, 5-0, after falling 3-2 in the opener Saturday at Consol Energy Park.

Winning pitcher Cory Craig went five innings and Andre Jones and Mick Fennell combined to pitch the final two innings in the second game to preserve the shutout for the Vulcans (8-10, 20-15).

Dan Popio’s RBI-double in the top of the seventh gave Mercyhurst (12-6, 20-10) the win in the opener. Justin Taylor pitched a complete game for California.

• Waynesburg had six extra-base hits, including a solo homer by Neal Yakopin and winning pitcher Brian Resnik allowed only one earned run as the Yellow Jackets defeated host Thomas More, 12-3, in the opening game of a PAC doubleheader.

Thomas More won the second game, 8-3.

Resnik scattered seven hits in a complete game to improve his record to 5-3. Jonathan Kletzli doubled and drove in three runs in the opener for Waynesburg (7-4, 11-15), Matt Bensinger had three singles and Ben Shorthouse doubled and scored three times.

Thomas More (8-3, 13-10) broke a 3-3 tie by scoring four times in the fifth inning of the second game.

• Jordan Swisher went 6-for-9 with a home run to helped No. 21-ranked Case Western Reserve swept a non-conference doubleheader from visiting Washington & Jefferson, 3-2 in 11 innings and 8-2.

Swisher had a wild day at the plate as he hit what appeared to be a walk-off homer in the bottom of the 10th in the opener. However, he was called out when an umpire ruled on appeal that Swisher did not touch home plate.

The Spartans (21-7) did win in the 11th on a single by Aaron Cain.

W&J starting pitcher Eddie Nogay gave up one run over eight innings but go a no-decision.

Swisher hit a home run in the second game as the Spartans had 15 hits.

Nick Vento had two hits in each game for W&J (14-11).

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