PITTSBURGH, PA – Chatham Baseball (12-14, 4-6 PAC) split their doubleheader with Saint Vincent (12-13, 3-5) on Saturday, winning game one 3-1 but falling in game two 5-4.
 
Nolan Boehm tripled in the first inning of game one and scored on the same play after a Bearcat throw got away. His hit brought in Angelo DeLeonardis to give the Cougars an early 2-0 lead. Cooper Baxter held the Saint Vincent bats in check for five innings, but the Bearcats were able to get a run across in the sixth inning to make it a 2-1 ballgame. In the bottom half of the inning, Eddie Rueda's base hit scored Devin Fluhmann, giving Chatham a 3-1 lead they would preserve for the rest of the game. Cason Bennett and Tyler Cote closed out the game one victory on the mound.
 
Baxter earned the win, allowing 1 earned run on 4 hits in 5.2 innings. Cason Bennett allowed no hits in his 1.1 innings of work in game one, and Tyler Cote tossed 2 shutout innings while allowing just one hit to earn the save. At the plate, Nolan Boehm went 1-3 with an RBI, scored, and drew a walk. Devin Fluhmann was 1-3 with a rwalk and a run scored, and Eddie Rueda went 1-4 with an RBI.
 
Neither team scored a run in the first three innings of game, but the Bearcats broke through in the fourth to take a 2-0 advantage. The Cougars got a run back in the bottom half of the inning when Dominic Obiecunas drove in DeLeonardis on a base hit for his first RBI of the season. Ty Blackburn's bunt single in the sixth tied the game when Boehm scored from third base. Chatham jumped on top in the seventh when DeLeonardis came around to score on an Eddie Rueda double and Boehm's base hit brought him home to make the score 4-2. Unfortunately for the Cougars, they could not hold on to the lead as Saint Vincent put 3 unearned runs on the board in the top of the ninth inning to steal a one-run victory.
 
Nolan Boehm was 2-3 with an RBI, scored a run, and walked in game two for Chatham. Angelo DeLeonardis went 2-5 and scored twice. Ty Blackburn and Dominic Obiecunas were both 1-3 with an RBI. Matt Bamford pitched 2.1 scoreless innings and allowed just one hit.
 
The Cougars will travel north to Westminster for their next PAC doubleheader, which begins at 1 p.m. on Tuesday.