WAYNESBURG, PA – Chatham Baseball (14-19, 6-9 PAC) went toe-to-toe with Waynesburg (3-12, 7-25) for 17 innings, but was defeated 13-11 on a walk-off home run.
 
The Yellow Jackets jumped out to a 6-0 lead when they scored 4 runs in the second inning and 2 in the third. The Cougars got 5 runs back in the fifth. Ty Blackburn scored on a fielder's choice, then Angelo DeLeonardis, Peter Tadic, Devin Fluhmann and Tyler Cote all had RBI singles. Waynesburg added 3 more runs in the sixth to take a 9-5 advantage. Tadic crossed the plate on a bases loaded seventh inning walk to make it 9-6. In the eighth, Tadic and Caleb Jones had RBI singles, and a Cooper Baxter RBI triple and Fluhmann RBI double gave Chatham their first lead at 10-9. Waynesburg knotted the game at 10 with a run in the bottom half of the inning to send the game to extra innings. Tadic homered in the 12th, but Waynesburg evened the score on a double in the bottom of the inning. The teams could not find a way to get a run across until a two-run home run in the 17th inning won the game for the Yellow Jackets.
 
Tadic went 5-9 at the plate for the Cougars with 3 RBIs and scored 4 runs. Jones, Baxter and DeLeonardis all had 3-hit games for Chatham. Jones and Fluhmann both drove in 2 runs. Kole Mayle tossed a scoreless inning, and Dawson Morrow threw 1.1 scoreless innings in relief for the Cougars.
 
Due to the length of the game, the second game of the doubleheader will be played tomorrow at West Field with a 7:15 p.m. first pitch.