The Chestnut Hill College Baseball team produced late inning heroics in both games as they swept a doubleheader from Lincoln University of Pennsylvania Sunday afternoon 8-7 and 1-0 at Lincoln's home field.

The sweep gives the Griffins a four-game sweep of the season series as the team improves to 15-14 overall and 10-8 in central Atlantic collegiate conference games.  The Lions fall to 3-25 overall and 0-18 in league play.  The two game sweepalso extends the Griffins' winnnig streak to five games.

The Griffins trailed 7-5 heading into their final at-bat in the ninth inning of game one when they sent seven men to the plate and produced three runs to take an 8-7 lead.  Wyatt Spinks reached on a dropped third strike, beating out the throw to first.  He moved to third on Michael Benedetto III's double and then scored on a wild pitch.  Aiden Myers was hit by a pitch and stole second.  Michael Pascoe grounded out to score Benedetto with the tying run as Myers moved to third.  A sacrifice fly by Justin Geiger brought home Myers with the go-ahead and eventual winning run. 

Benedetto and Phoenix Bowman finished the game with two hits apiece.  Benedetto scored three times while Pascoe drove in three runs, all without a hit.  Geiger had two RBI and Bowman one.

Cole Morris came into the game in the sixth inning and pitched three innings to earn his first win of the season., allowing just one hit.  Colby Seelig picked up his sixth save of the season, pitching the ninth inning and allowing one hit.

A sacrifice fly from Pascoe  and a wild pitch that scored Myers gave the Griffins an early 3-1 lead in the third inning.  The Lions scored four in the fourth inning and added solo runs in the fifth and sixth inning to take a 7-3 lead.

Pascoe drew a bases loaded walk in the seventh and Geiger drove in Benedetto via a fielder's choice to pull the Griffins within two 7-5.  Morris held the Lions in check in the seventh and eighth inning before the Griffins used their final at-bat to score three and win the game.

Game two was a pitcher's duel between Dylan Broderick and Lincoln's Dennis Flores.  Neither pitcher allowed a run through the first six innings of the seven-inning game with Broderick striking out six through six and allowing just three hits and flores allowing seven hits and striking out five through the first six innings.

In the top of the seventh, Bowman drew a walk and was sacrificed to second base.  Benedetto followed with a one-out double to left center to score Bowman with the first run of the game and a 1-0 Griffin lead.

Broderick retired the Lions in order in the bottom of the seventh, striking out the last two batters to finish the game with eight, earning his first career shutout and improving his 2025 record to 5-1.

Myers and Geiger had two hits apiece to pace the Griffins.

The baseball team returns to action on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, when they host Caldwell University at Hostelley field.  First pitch is at 12:00 p.m.