The Panthers showed a great deal of fight in a big comeback win on the road.  Principia went up early in the 1st 3-0 on a 3-run blast off the bat of sophomore Alan Cheatham.  It was Cheat's 4th homerun in the last 2 weeks.

However, Westminster battled back and took a commanding 9-4 lead into the 7th inning.  The Panthers did not give up and pounded out 5 runs in the 7th to tie the score.  Junior captain Matt Bowman busted out with a long grandslam homerun to tie it.

Westminster answered back by scoring 2 runs in the bottom half of the inning.  The Panthers showed a lot of heart and resiliency by not giving in.  In the 8th, Junior Spencer Brown singled and then senior Andy Winterbottom belted a ball deep to leftfield.  Andy crushed the ball, and on a normal night it would have been gone.  However, a stiff wind knocked the ball down for a 2B and an RBI.  The Panthers then loaded the bases and regained the lead for the first time since the 1st inning on a hustle play by Samuel Thomas and Alan Cheatham.

Captain Brown then shut down Westminster in the 8th and 9th for the win.  Westminster had runners on 2nd and 3rd with one out in the 9th trailing by a run.  Brown struck out the first batter and then with the game on the line, he made some great pitches that produced a lazy ground ball to 1st baseman Samuel Thomas to end the game.

On the mound, sophomore Robbie Nickell went 3 solid innings, followed by 3 great innings by senior Stu Waller, and then Brown took care of the rest.

Though the game included some awesome individual performances, it was one of the best team wins in many years.