Grove City, PA – The Geneva baseball team fought hard to come back and tie the game 5-5 in the top of the eighth but the effort went for naught as Grove City answered with four in the bottom of the eighth for a 9-5 loss. The loss lowers Geneva’s overall record to 10-19, 4-13 in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference.
Aaron Witman (Greencastle, PA/Shalom Christian Academy) batted 2 for 4 jumpstarting Geneva’s offense in the second and eighth innings. Witman’s rbi double opened Geneva’s 2-run second inning over Grove City.
Grove City responded quickly with four runs of its own in the second and one more in the third.
After scoring two runs in the fifth, Geneva tied up the game 5-5 at the top of the eighth off Witman’s single to shortstop. Donnie Tong’s (Columbus, OH/Tree of Life Christian) singled to shortstop and then Zach Ackerman’s (Lewis Center, OH/Worthington Christian) leftfield single rbi brought Witman home.
Grove City crushed all hopes in the bottom of the eighth with four runs to seal the win at 9-5.
Jeff Parker (Green Brook, NJ/Timothy Christian) ended up taking the loss for Geneva.
The Golden Tornadoes are on the road again tomorrow, Wednesday April 21 at Bethany College for a single nine inning game starting at 4 p.m.
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