With only four games left in the regular season, the Waynesburg baseball team needs to continue to win and get a lot of help from other teams in the conference if they want to make the postseason. Mathematically, a postseason berth is possible, but comes with a challenge.

“So far, [this season is] not good,” said head coach Mike Humiston. “All of us anticipated this season to be much better than this, but we have had a lot of defensive problems and when you have more errors than runs in games, you’re probably going to lose.”

Saturday, April 28, the baseball team will travel to Thiel to take on the Tomcats for a double header. The Yellow Jackets are currently 9-19 overall and 5-9 in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference, while the Thiel Tomcats are 13-18 overall and 9-5 in the PAC.

“Everyone [in the PAC] lost a lot of guys from last year,” said Humiston. “We need to play good defense, our pitching has been our strongest point this season, but it’s been tough for them whenever they have to try and get five or six outs each inning because of errors.”

The last time the Yellow Jackets played the Tomcats was a year ago Saturday, April 29. The teams split that double header with Thiel winning the first game 8-6 and Waynesburg taking the victory in the second game 11-4. However, that was last year and as Humiston said, these teams are different this year.

“Thiel is beatable,” said Humiston. “We have a good team, we just need to put together a game where we can hit, pitch and play defense good. For most of season we haven’t done that and that us put us behind the eight ball a bit.”

The Waynesburg Yellow Jackets are currently in the second to last spot in the PAC standings and the Thiel Tomcats are in third place.

“Anything can happen in these final games,” said Humiston. “We have the talent, we just have to win the next four games and don’t worry about errors. If the team plays like they can play then we will hopefully win.”

The last games for Waynesburg were last Saturday, April 21, against Chatham, who is 0-14 in the PAC. The Yellow Jackets swept the double header, which is the first PAC sweep for Waynesburg this season. For the Thiel Tomcats, they are currently on a two-game losing streak. Sunday, April 22, the Tomcats lost to Mount Union 11-7 and then lost 13-1 last Monday, April 23, to La Roche.

After the games against Thiel the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets will host the Grove City Wolverines, Saturday, May 5, for a double header. The Thiel Tomcats will play against Geneva, Saturday, May 4, and then Penn State Behrend, Monday, May 7.