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Jacket baseball team suffers home loss to Grove City
Waynesburg gets dominated by Wolverines 24-5
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WAYNESBURG, Pa. (Apr. 27) – It was a long hot day at Madison Field for the Waynesburg baseball team on Monday afternoon as they dropped a 24-5 Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) contest to Grove City.

 

The loss dropped Waynesburg to 17-17 overall and 8-7 in the PAC. Grove City improved to 6-9 in conference action and 13-17 overall.

 

The Wolverines jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the top of the first, before the Jackets responded with two runs of their own in the bottom of the inning. GCC made it 5-2 in the top of the second, and extended their advantage to 8-3 after following four innings of play.

 

Grove City blew the game open with 10 runs in the top of the fifth, giving them an 18-3 advantage and allowing them to cruise to victory.

 

One of the few bright spots for the Jackets was second baseman Wes White Jr, who recorded a game-high four hits in five at-bats. He also scored Waynesburg’s first run of the afternoon.

 

Sophomore starter Tim Knight started and took the loss on the mound after giving up five earned runs in just one inning of action.

 

Waynesburg is scheduled to host a non-conference doubleheader with Penn State-Altoona on Tuesday. First pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m.

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Athletes of the Week
Dan Bruni
Dan Bruni
Wrestling
Bruni went 3-0 during Waynesburg’s home quad-match against Penn State Greater Allegheny, Penn State Beaver and Penn State Fayette. The sophomore won two matches by major decision and scored a fall in just 31 seconds over Greater Allegheny’s Soham Salvi.
Jessi Drayer
Jessi Drayer
Women's Basketball
Drayer poured in a team-high 21.0 points per game for the 1-1 Yellow Jackets this past week. She was the team’s leading scorer in both games, going for a game-high 23 points against Westminster, before pouring in a contest-best 19 points in a win over Geneva. The Waterford, Ohio native averaged 21 points, 4.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 1.5 steals per game this week.
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Did You Know...
Going nowhere fast
Waynesburg held Westminster to minus-105 yards rushing in a game in 1967.
Headlee's All-American resume
Head wrestling coach Ron Headlee was a three-time NAIA All-American at Messiah College and the school's first NCAA All-American.
Unbreakable record
In 2009, Scott Cree ran an interception back 100 yards for a touchdown, a record that can't be broken.
Champions in the classroom
During the 2009-10 school year, no school in the conference boasted more honorees on the PAC Academic Honor Roll than Waynesburg.
TV Football
Waynesburg played in the first televised football game. The Yellow Jackets faced Fordham on Sept. 20, 1939 in Randalls Island, N.Y.
The Three Musketeers
Dominick Hunter, Ivan Hawkins and Paul D'Imperio, who rank 1-2-3 in career receptions , all played together from 2002 to 2004.
Don Herrman
Former Waynesburg football great Don Herrman played for the New York Giants and New Orleans Saints from 1969 to 1977.
Jackets own Nittany Lions
The Waynesburg football team is 2-0 all-time against Penn State. The last time they met was in 1932, when the Jackets won 7-6.
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