2018 Pitt-Greensburg Baseball
3
Pitt-Greensburg UPG 26-13
7
Winner La Roche LAR 34-8-1
Pitt-Greensburg UPG
26-13
3
Final
7
La Roche LAR
34-8-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Pitt-Greensburg UPG 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 6 1
La Roche LAR 0 0 0 0 1 0 5 1 X 7 11 2

W: N. Tunstall (7-1) L: Hoener, Brandon (1-4)

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@Pittgbg's Quest For A Title Ends With Loss To La Roche In AMCC Championship

PITTSBURGH- The Pitt-Greensburg baseball team saw its record-setting season come to a close Saturday, as it fell 7-3 to La Roche in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Championship Game. 

Pitt-Greensburg ends its season with a 26-13 mark, while La Roche (34-8-1) will continue its season in the NCAA Division III Tournament as it received the conference's automatic bid. The Bobcat end their season setting a school record for wins in a season (26). 

At the conclusion of Saturday's championship, Matt Mish, Tyler Holland, and Reno Rainey were selected to the AMCC All-Tournament Team. 

Rainey batted .467 during the AMCC Tournament, going 7-for-15 at the plate with eight runs, four doubles, and drove in two RBI. He posted a team-best .733 slugging percentage as well as a .579 on-base-percentage. 

Dolan connected on 6-for-14 (.429) with four runs, a double, and drove in a team-high five RBI, four of which came in the 15-11 victory over Penn State Behrend. Dolan went 1-for-1 in stolen bases, posted a .500 slugging percentage and a .500 on-base-percentage. 

Holland drilled his ninth home run of the season, which also came in the elimination game victory over Penn State Behrend and tallied a .412 slugging percentage. 

THE MATCHUP
AMCC Championship Final Score: #2  Pitt-Greensburg 3, #1 La Roche 7
Location: Baierl Athletic Complex | Pittsburgh, Pa (La Roche College)

NOTABLES
  • Rainey set school records for highest on-base-percentage (.528), runs (58), doubles (20), and total bases (108)
  • Rainey also finished with the second most hits in program history (65) and his .735 slugging percentage, ranks fifth in a single-season. 
  • Tyler Holland drove in 47 RBI which is tied for the third most in Pitt-Greensburg baseball history, totaled 151 at-bats, tied for fifth in school history, and ranks ninth with 55 hits. He also etched his name once again in the record books with nine home runs, good for fourth best in a single-season. 
  • Mike Parlak finishes his Pitt-Greensburg career tying the school record with 11 home runs in 2018, fifth with 44 RBI,suxth with 94 total bases, and eighth for most at-bats (150). 
  • Chris Common was hit by a pitch 11 times in 2018, placing him third for most HPB in a season. He also belted seven home runs this season, ranking tied for eighth in program history, and also ranks tied for eighth with three triples. 
  • Zack Zimmerman also legged out three triples in 2018, which ties him with Chris Common for eighth most in a single-season. 
  • The Bobcats put together one of their best offensive outputs in program history, setting single-season records in highest on-base-percentage (.433), runs (346), home runs (45), RBI (311), walks (191),  and hit-by-pitch (43), and finished second in batting average (.337), slugging percentage (.524), total bases (677), and hits (435). 
  • Pitt-Greensburg also finished the season ranked among the top five in, at-bats (3rd-1,291), triples (3rd-14), and doubles (5th-79). 

HOW IT HAPPENED
Pitt-Greensburg came out of the gates strong with a big first inning. Zimmerman set the tone offensively, drawing a leadoff walk and advanced all the way to third on an error and passed ball respectively. The senior third baseman came around to score the game's first run as Rainey came through with a clutch hit to right field. Holland followed with a base-knock to right field and Parlak put together a great at-bat, drawing a walk to load the bases. Dolan knocked in the second run of the inning on a sacrifice fly as the Bobcats led 2-0 after one inning of action. 

The Redhawks bats were kept silent at the plate by senior Brandon Hoener, who tossed six strong innings, giving up just eight hits and struck out four. 

Pitt-Greensburg continued to hold a 2-0 lead but would extend its advantage to three runs as Reno smacked a two-out double to left field and came around to score on a throwing error. Rainey bolted for third with an attempted steal of third base and Shane Roebuck's throw sailed over Elmo Trickett's head, which allowed Rainey to come around and score. 

La Roche answered with a run of its own in the home half of the fifth inning. Gino Quahliero smacked a one-out single to right field and advanced to third on a base hit by Johnathan Melendez. The La Roche second baseman came around to score on a sacrifice fly by Dylan Urban as La Roche cut the Pitt-Greensburg lead to 3-2. 

Through six innings of play, Hoener displayed some of his best stuff in the final start of the season, as the senior hurler allowed just two runs on four hits. 

Unfournately for Pitt-Greensburg, La Roche would strike for five runs in the seventh inning, four of which came on a grand slam by Urban, which propelled the Redhawks to their fifth-straight AMCC Championship with a 7-3 victory. 
 
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