GROVE CITY — Every evening when Jim Revesz returns to his Grove City home wearing the enemy red and gray of Slippery Rock High, he gets an earful.

“Take that off,” his wife, Robin, usually says. “It looks so bad. You can't wear red.”

Such is life these days in the Revesz household. Jim is in his first year as the baseball coach at Slippery Rock. Meanwhile, his two senior sons, Jason and Jeff, are standouts on the Grove City High baseball team.

The two teams — and the sons and father — faced off on Thursday.

Grove City won 11-0.

Jason and Jeff took it to dear old dad.

Jason threw a five-inning no-hitter. Jeff hit a pair of home runs.

“(Jason) told me (Thursday morning) that he was coming to get me,” Jim said. “I told him, ‘You're not playing against me.' I told him to stay within himself. And he did. He pitched very well.”

Jeff didn't say anything. He let his bat do the talking.

Jeff did admit to shooting a few glances toward his father in the Slippery Rock dugout as he rounded the bases after his two home runs in his first two at-bats.

The third plate appearance resulted in a walk.

“Keep the ball away from him,” Jim said of his strategy. “They knew that. I let them do it. They weren't going to give him anything else.

“Then,” Jim says, smiling, “he'd really be talking up a storm.”

The trash talk, though, was kept to a minimum leading up to the game.

When the Slippery Rock job opened up, Jim sat down with his two sons and asked them if they were OK with him pursuing the position.

“It was a year early,” Jim said. “I have always wanted to coach high school baseball, but I didn't expect the Slippery Rock job to open up.”

Jeff said he and his brother had no qualms about their father coaching at a rival school — and against them at least twice during their senior season.

“I was a little nervous playing against my dad,” Jeff said. “I have never played against him before. We've always been on the same team. I knew he wanted to coach once we left for college. We had no problem with it.”

Robin, who was decked out in Grove City black and gold, said her husband and sons have handled the unique situation well.

There was no mystery about who Robin was rooting for: Grove City.

“My husband takes losses better than my sons,” she said, laughing.

The sons don't do much losing these days.

Jason and Jeff have been around baseball most of their lives because of their father.

Jim coaches youth teams throughout the summer. His eldest son, Bob, is a pitcher in the St. Louis Cardinals organization.

Jeff remembers hanging out at the field when he was 6, shagging fly balls and seeing how far he could throw a baseball.

“Dad helped us a lot,” Jeff said. “I pretty much grew up on the baseball field.”

Jason and Jeff will play at Kent State University next spring. KSU, a Division I school, is the 25th-ranked team in the country in the latest poll.

Grove City coach Pat Forese said the Golden Flashes are getting in Jeff one of the best hitters he's ever coached in his 25-plus years.

“He is so strong, and he can get better,” Forese said. “He still has some things to work on.”

Jeff nods.

“I'm a dead-pull hitter,” Jeff said. “I need to work on hitting the ball to right field.”

Jason boasts of three top-notch pitches. All were on display in his no-hitter Thursday.

To Jason, though, it didn't matter how many hits he gave up, he just wanted to get the victory in Round 1 of the Revesz Series.

“It's nice to win against dad,” Jason said. “We have some bragging rights at home tonight.”