Box Score

GREENVILLE, Pa. – Billy Roosa (Salamanca, N.Y./Ellicottville) registered his second four-hit day of the year in Thiel's 13-6 Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) victory over visiting Geneva College Friday afternoon at Tomcat Park.

Thiel (8-9, 1-3 PAC) starter Brad Bates (Kinsman, Ohio/Badger) notched his first victory of the season, allowing three runs (3 earned) on eight hits with three strikeouts in 8.0 innings.

The teams were forced to remain in their dugouts during a 45-minute weather delay in the top of the fourth.

Roosa's four hits led the way for the Tomcats as they combined for 15 hits. Roosa added a RBI, two runs scored and two stolen bases. Doug Farley (Linesville, Pa./Linesville) went 3-for-5 and recorded his team-leading fourth triple while adding a run, a RBI and a pair of stolen bases. Ryan Dixon (Pittsburgh, Pa./Upper St. Clair) finished 2-for-4 with a double, three RBI and a run scored while Dan Gainey (Girard, Ohio/Girard) chipped in with a pair of RBI.

Geneva (10-11, 1-3 PAC) starter Tad Forsythe suffered the loss, allowing six runs (6 earned) on eight hits with four walks in 4.1 innings. The Golden Tornadoes matched the Tomcats in hits (15), paced T.J. Lambert's and Mike Jeffrey's three hits each. Lambert finished with a pair of RBI and a run scored while Jeffrey added a run.

Gainey's run-scoring single in the second gave Thiel a 1-0 advantage, and Roosa's RBI double in the third saw the Tomcats extend their lead to 2-0.

Joel Gatti's RBI single in the weather-extended fourth put the visitors on the board and cut the Tomcat lead to one, 2-1. Jeremy Herzog's one-out, two-run single in the top of the fifth inning gave Geneva a 3-2 lead.

The Tomcats sent eight to the plate in the top of the fifth and a two-run single off the bat of Phil Double (Evans City, Pa./Seneca Valley) keyed a four-run frame to give homestanding Thiel a 6-3 advantage.

Bates retired the Geneva batters in order in the top of the sixth before the Tomcats saw 13 players come to the plate in their seven-run sixth to give Thiel a 13-3 lead.

Garrett Swanson's RBI single in the eighth, followed by Lambert's two-run double in the ninth, closed out the scoring at 13-6.

Thiel travels to Beaver Falls, Pa. on Saturday, March 31 to complete its three-game series with Geneva. Game one of the scheduled doubleheader is slated to get underway at 1 p.m.