Box Score
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Johns Hopkins pounded out 11 extra-base hits, including four home runs, en route to a 15-5 Centennial Conference (CC) baseball victory at Gettysburg on Friday.
Brian Morley had two doubles and two round trippers for the Blue Jays (15-0, 2-0 CC) in a 4-for-5 day from the plate. He also scored three runs of his own and had four RBIs.
Austin Ball (Farmingdale, NY/Hills East) went 3-for-4 for the Bullets (7-8-1, 0-2 CC), who dropped their seventh straight decision to Johns Hopkins.
Johns Hopkins got things started in the first when Tim Casale doubled to center to open the game. After a fly out to left, Craig Cetta singled home Casale to give the Blue Jays a 1-0 lead.
Gettysburg struck right back in the bottom half of the inning, however.
Brian Pernice (Smithtown, NY/Smithtown) led off with a single and Ron Lettieri (South Hempstead, NY/South Side) followed with a double to put two on with no outs. Brendan McDonald (Bennington, VT/Mt. Anthony Union) cleared the bases with a single up the middle to give the Bullets a 2-1 lead.
Hopkins knotted the score at 2-all with two out in the top of the third when Mike Durgala singled home Casele to start a stretch that saw the Blue Jays plate at least one run in each of the final seven innings, including four in the fifth and eighth.
A pair of two-run blasts by Paul Winterling and Morley in the visitor fifth stretched the lead to 8-2.
The Bullets cut the lead in half in the bottom half of the inning. Chase Straub (Perkasie, PA/Pineridge) reached on an error to start the inning, and scored on a Pernice double. After Lettieri flied out to left, McDonald knocked home Pernice for his third RBI of the day to cut the lead to 8-4.
Mike Luteran (Livingston, NJ/Livingston) grounded into an inning-ending double play to end the threat.
Up 10-5 after seven, the Blue Jays broke out for four more in the eighth. Morley started the attack with a one-out homer over the left-field fence before four Gettysburg errors led to three unearned runs in the inning and a 14-5 lead.
Carl Ippolito made the 21st JHU hit count in the top of the ninth, going yard for the final margin.
Russ Berger worked the first six inning for the Blue Jays for his second win of the spring.
Brian Spicer (Haddonfield, NJ/Haddonfield) lasted 4 1/3 innings for the Bullets for his first loss of 2004.
Gettysburg returns to action in a CC twinbill at Swarthmore on Saturday. Game time is 12 p.m.
| Score by Innings |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
- |
R |
H |
E |
| Johns Hopkins (15-0, 2-0 CC) |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
- |
15 |
21 |
4 |
| Gettysburg (7-8-1, 0-2 CC) |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
- |
5 |
10 |
5 |
Russ Berger, Ryan McConnell (7), Andrew Bail (9) and Bryan Eberle, Doug Hitchner (9); Brian Spicer, Tobin Whitman (5), Rob Borman (8) and Mike Luteran, Mike Schmidt (9). WP: Berger (3-0). LP: Spicer (1-1). S: none. SO-BB: Berger 1-0, McConnell 2-0, Bail 10-0; Spicer 3-1, Whitman 2-1, Borman 3-0. 2B: Tim Casale 2 (J), Brian Morley 2 (J), Craig Cetta (J), Mike Durgala (J); Brian Pernice (G), Ron Lettieri (G), Austin Ball (G), Ben Carey (G). 3B: Carl Ippolito (J). HR: Morley 2 (J) Paul Winterling (J), Eric Nigro (J).
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