A day after losing a pair of hard-fought contests, Seton Hill flipped the script on Sunday against Cal on SHU's Senior Day. The Griffins used a stellar pitching performance from Caiden Wood to take a 5-2 victory in the opening game and then senior Brandon Kline hit a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the ninth in game two to lift Seton Hill to a 5-4 win and the sweep over the Vulcans.

In Sunday's first tilt, Cal scored once in the first and once in the seventh again Wood, but scored nothing in between, allowing the Griffin offense to plate five runs to take the win. After the Vulcans scored in the top of the first for a 1-0 lead, Seton Hill drew even in the third. Jack Oberdorf started a big day at the plate by lacing a ball to the left-center field wall. He raced into third and the throw skipped out of play, allowing Oberdorf to trot home to tie the score at 1-1.

Another error helped SHU take the lead in the fourth when senior Neal McDermott singled, stole second and took third when the throw went into center field and came home on a sacrifice fly by senior Isaiah DiAndreth for a 2-1 advantage. That lead grew to 4-1 in the fifth frame after senior Jayden Starks hit a leadoff single and came home when Oberdorf blasted a two-run homer. The final run came in the sixth when senior Brett Morris walked and pinch-runner Noah Sweeney swiped second base. After a hit batter, Owen Sabol picked up an RBI on a fielder's choice when he beat out a throw to first and Sweeney scored all the way from second for a 5-1 lead.

Although the Vulcans managed a run off Wood in the seventh, it was too little, too late against the Griffin right-hander. He allowed just one base runner between the first and seventh innings and the final two outs were Ks, giving him seven for the game. Wood raised his record to 6-2 with the complete-game win, allowing two runs on only three hits. With the bats, Oberdorf, McDermott and Braden Durham all had two hits apiece.

Prior to the second game, the Griffins honored their 12 seniors playing their final season for the program. Once it began, game two was a back-and-forth affair that took extra innings to be decided. Cal broke out to a 1-0 lead again with a run in the second inning. The score was evened in the fourth when Oberdorf crushed a solo homer, his 10th of the season, to center field to make it 1-1. That's when the see-saw battle started, as the Vulcans retook the lead with a run in the fifth, but it was short-lived, as RBI singles in the bottom of the inning by Durham and Sabol lifted the Griffins to a 3-2 lead.

This time it was Cal who answered back, using an RBI single and a SHU error to score twice and regain the lead at 4-3 heading to the bottom of the sixth. It took all of two pitches for Seton Hill to tie the game in the last of that inning, as Max Mandler belted a solo home run over the wall in left-center and the teams were even again at 4-4.

The game carried into extras and both sides missed chances to score, leaving runners on the seventh and eighth innings. Seton Hill would cash in their opportunity in the ninth, which began when Durham drew a leadoff walk and advanced to second on a ground out. Kline then delivered on Senior Day when he rolled the winning single through the left side to score Durham and give SHU a needed sweep to salvage a split of the weekend series.

Kline was the lone Griffin to get two hits in the nightcap, while Durham scored a pair of runs. In addition to Oberdorf and Mandler hitting long balls, DiAndreth had a triple for the other extra-base hit. Earning the win on the mound was Brian Pirone, who threw a scoreless ninth inning and upped his record to 4-0 for the season.

The Griffins came up a game short of qualifying for the PSAC Tournament, which will be held this week. But the wins over Cal can only help the Griffins' case for the NCAA Regionals. Seton Hill was ranked fifth in last week's rankings and will now wait on the proverbial bubble until next weekend to find out if they may earn an invitation back to NCAA Regional play.