The Chestnut Hill College baseball team split the first two games of their three game series with Dominican University Saturday afternoon at Hostelley field, winning the opening game 13-11 but falling in the second 22-6.

Chestnut Hill is now 5-7 overall and 2-2 in Central Atlantic Collegiate conference games.  The Chargers are also 2-2 in league play and 5-9 overall.

The wind was blowing out on the afternoon which resulted in a total of seven home ruins between the two teams in the opener, five of which came in a wild eighth inning that saw each team score five runs in their half of the frame.

The Griffins got home runs from Wyatt Spinks, Jackson Shollenberger and Aiden Myers.  Myers banged out two singles in addition to his home run and had two RBI.  Shollenberger and Kenyon Motley had three RBI apiece.  Spinks, Motley , Michael Pascoe and Nicholas Shiffler had two hits apiece.

Rich Bonino earned the win in relief while struggling through the eighth inning and then pitching a scoreless ninth to notch his first win of the season.  Pascoe started and pitched five innings, giving up four runs on three hits.

The Chargers scored off an error in the first frame and Spinks tied it up with home run to centerfield.  Dominican's Erick Diaz hit the first of his two home runs in the game in the second inning as the Chargers went ahead 2-1.

In the bottom half of the second inning, Michael Melosky's infield groundout brought home Matthew Sharkey with the tying run.  Motley's infield hit then scored Myers and two batters later Pascoe singled to bring home Myers to give the Griffins a 4-2 lead.

The Griffins added three runs in the third inning on Myers RBI single  and two more on Motley's single through the right side to lead 7-2.

The Chargers cut CHC's lead to 7-4 with two runs in the fifth before Shiffler's   RBI single in the sixth made the score 8-4.  Dominican added two more in the seventh to pull within two 8-6.

The eighth inning saw both teams combine for ten runs.  DUNY belted three home runs off  Bonino in the top half of the inning, a two-run shot from Diaz, his second of the game a solo shot from Chad Falcon and two-run home run from Byron Arias to take an 11-8 lead.

The bottom of the eight started off with a single from Spinks, who advanced on a balk and came home on Pascoe's single to left center field.  Shiffler singled and Shollenberger followed with a long home run to left field to give the Griffins the lead again 12-11. Myers then hit a solo home run to account for CHC's final run.  Bonino pitched a scoreless ninth as the Griffins hung on for the win.

In the second game , the  Chargers scored in six of the seven innings as they cruised to a 22-6 win over the Griffins.

Mason Adkins (1-2) took the loss, giving up five runs in two innings of work.  Pascoe finished the game with three hits while Shiffler and Myers had two apiece.

Trailing 1-0, Motley came home on Pascoe's sacrifice fly in the first to tie the game.  Dominican plated four runs in the second while Motley drove in Melosky to make the score 5-2 after two innings.

The Chargers scored seven runs in the third to take command with a 12-2 lead.  The Griffins added two in the bottom of the third on RBI singles from Shiffler and Myers to cut the DU lead to eight 12-4 before the chargers hit three home runs in the top of the fourth to take a 15-4 lead. 

Chestnut Hill added two more in the bottom half of the fourth to make the score 15-6.  The Chargers scored five times in the fifth and twice more in the seventh to round of the scoring.

The Griffins return to action on Sunday, March 15, 2026 when they complete their three game series against Dominican with a game in Orangeburg, New York.  First pitch is at 12:00 p.m.