Box Score (Gm. 1) | Box Score (Gm. 2)

GREENVILLE, Pa. – The Thiel College baseball squad forced a split Saturday with visiting Geneva College, falling 4-3 in game one before bouncing back in game two with a 9-3 victory.

Mike Trn improved to 3-1 on the season for the Golden Tornadoes, allowing three runs (3 earned) on seven hits with three walks in the complete-game win. Justin McGurgan and Adam Scheiderer each finished with a pair of RBI.

Brad Bates (Kinsman, Ohio, Badger) dropped to 2-2 on the year, allowing four runs (1 earned) on eight hits with two strikeouts and a walk in 7.0 innings. Thiel (10-7) finished with five total hits; Brock Porter (Duncansville, Pa., Hollidaysburg) went 1-2 with a walk and a run scored while Jarod Nanna (Johnstown, Pa., Conemaugh) drove in the Tomcats' lone RBI.

McGurgan's RBI single in the first scored Mike Jeffrey's and gave Geneva a 1-0 edge going into the bottom half of the first. With the bases loaded Thiel capitalized on a wild pitch that scored Luke Johnson (Rochester, Pa., Rochester) from third to tie the game at 1-1 before Nanna's RBI groundout plated Eric Steininger (West Leechburg, Pa., Leechburg) and gave the Tomcats a 2-1 advantage.

A RBI double by McGurgan in the third scored Mike Sulava to the tie the game at 2-2 before Adam Schiderer's two-run home run gave the visiting Golden Tornadoes a 4-2 lead.

Porter's head's up play on a wild pitch in the fourth allowed him to score from second and cut the deficit back to one, 4-3, but Thiel managed just one hit in the final three innings.

James Teyssier (McKees Rocks, Pa., Montour) evened his season mark at 2-2 with his game two victory, allowing just one run (1 earned) on six hits in 5.0 innings. Porter finished 3-3 at the plate with a double, a triple, two runs scored and a RBI. Dan Gainey (Girard, Ohio, Girard) got the start for Porter behind the plate in the second game and made the most of it, finishing 1-3 with three RBI.

Ross Potts fell to 1-2 on the season for Geneva, surrendering seven runs (7 earned) on seven hits with a pair of strikeouts in 3.0 innings. Tad Forsythe tossed the final 3.0 innings and allowed two runs (2 earned) on three hits with a pair of walks. Joel Gatti and Jon Bushmire each had a pair of hits while Jeffreys finished with two RBI.

After plating a single run in the first and two more in the second to assume a 3-0 lead after two, Thiel sent seven batters to the plate in the third and thanks to Gainey's two-out, three-run single the Tomcats jumped out to a 7-0 lead.

Thiel returns to action on Sunday, April 3 when it hosts the University of Mount Union in a single, nine-inning contest at 1 p.m.