Box Score

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Playing its fifth game in four days, Gettysburg posted season highs in runs, hits and RBIs to grab a 15-6 victory over visiting Villa Julie in non-conference baseball action on Wednesday.

Twelve players combined for 23 base hits, 22 of which were singles, including a 3-for-3 day from Jon Giordano (Massapequa Park, NY/Massapequa) – his first collegiate three-hit outing – to pace the Bullets (19-17), who more than equaled its run and hit total from the last two outings on the day.

Brandon Briggs picked up the loss for the Mustangs (22-18), lasting 3 2/3 innings while allowing 10 runs (nine earned) on 13 hits.

Getting a strong outing from senior starting pitcher Greg Urich (Hummelstown, PA/Lower Dauphin), Gettysburg opened up a 15-0 lead en route to their most offensive day in over a year.

Urich worked a three-hit shutout through the first seven innings while the Bullet offense did its job.

After getting an inning-ending double play in the bottom of the first to get out of a one-out error, Brian Pernice (Smithtown, NY/Smithtown) led off the home second with a single through the left side, opening the flood gates.

Jimmy McNamara (Webster, NY/Webster) and Michael Donohue (Livingston, NJ/Livingston) drew back-to-back walks to load the bases before Andrew Freeburger (Baltimore, MD/Parkville) reached on an RBI fielder's choice to crack the scoreboard.

Giordano followed with a single into right to plate McNamara before Sean McGee (Mamaroneck, NY/Mamaroneck) singled into shallow center to load the bases with one out.

Briggs got two of his three strikeouts to leave the bases loaded.

With one out in the third, Pernice was hit by a pitch. One batter later, Donohue went up the middle to put runners at second and third with one away.

Freeburger's first of two hits on the day drove home Pernice and a Giordano single plated Donohue for the 4-0 advantage.

A throwing error from the catcher to third allowed Freeburger to make it a 5-0 game.

In the fourth, Gettysburg sent 10 batters to the plate, scoring five more times.

Ben Carey (Colchester, CT/St. Bernard) and Austin Ball (Farmingdale, NY/Hills East) looped back-to-back singles into left to lead off the frame.

With one out, Pernice cleared the bases with a single to the gap and McNamara set up runners at the corners with a single to the same location.

After the second groundout of the inning, Freeburger recorded RBIs No. 3 and 4 with a single to right.

Giordano recorded an infield single and McGee brought home Freeburger with a single to make it 10-0 and chase Briggs.

Reliever John Jilek needed just two pitches to get out of the inning with a fly ball to left.

An RBI single from Donohue in the home fifth score Joe Bonyai (Torrington, CT/Hotchkiss School) from third, who reached two batters earlier on a one-out walk.

In the bottom of the sixth, pinch-hitter Matt Sweeney (Bethesda, MD/St. Anselms Abby School) led off with the lone extra-base hit of the day for the Bullets – a double down the right-field line.

With one out, Mark Campo (Arendtsville, PA/Biglerville), Ball, Bonyai and Dave Olson (Orchard Park, NY/Orchard Park) all connected with singles to make it 13-0.

With the bases loaded and one out, pinch-hitter Brendan McDonald (Bennington, VT/Mt. Anthony Union) grounded a ball to the second baseman but Olson retreated to first, forcing a tag-out play and allowing Ball to score.

With two outs in the seventh, Sweeney reached on an error before Chase Straub (Perkasie, PA/Pennridge) and Campo went back-to-back to push the lead to 15.

A leadoff single from Phil Kraska in the top of the eighth – just the eighth base runner to reach on Urich – started a Villa Julie rally.

Andy Levy and Kevin Rodgers drew consecutive walks to load the bases before back-to-back RBIs singles from Anthony DeFrancisco and Matt Waltrop cut the lead to 15-2.

A Tim Buck sacrifice fly plated Rodgers before Urich got his fourth strikeout of the afternoon and lineout to get out of further trouble.

A leadoff double from Ruben Pinto started a three-run ninth.

With one out, Levy singled up the middle and Rodgers singled into right, allowing Pinto to score.

A foul-fly out gave Urich his second out before Waltrop reached on an error to score Rodgers and Buck was hit by an 0-2 pitch.

One out away from second collegiate complete game, Urich gave way to Kenny Stone (Orlando, FL/Bishop Moore Catholic), who needed just two pitches to get a dribbler up the first-base line for the final out.

The 15 runs marks the most for a Bullet team since plating 15 on Mar. 27, 2004 at Swarthmore last year while the 23 hits is the most since the squad pounded out 23 against Dickinson on Apr. 18, 2003.

Pernice tallied two hits, two RBIs and three runs scored in Urich's first win of the season.

Gettysburg, who is currently one game back in the loss column from the fourth and final Centennial Conference playoff spot, concludes its regular season with a home doubleheader against Washington on Saturday. The first game begins at 12:30 p.m.

Brandon Briggs, John Jilek (4), Jim Whisman (8), Phil Kraska (9) and Jim Roche; Greg Urich, Kenny Stone (9) and Michael Donohue, Dylan Reilly (8). WP: Urich (1-1). LP: Briggs (1-3). S: none. SO-BB: Briggs 3-2, Jilek 0-1, Whisman 2-0, Kraska 1-0; Urich 4-6, Stone 0-0. 2B: Anthony DeFrancisco (V), Ruben Pinto (V), Matt Sweeney (G).

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