Box Score

BALTIMORE – The Gettysburg College baseball team smacked three home runs, but the Bullets were unable to overcome an early 14-2 deficit and dropped their Centennial Conference opener, falling 18-11 at Johns Hopkins University Tuesday afternoon in a slugfest that featured 31 hits.

Junior Kevin Langhauser (Basking Ridge, N.J./Ridge) led the Bullets at the plate, clouting two of Gettysburg's dingers to tie a school record. Langhauser, who finished 3-for-5 with six RBIs, is the first Bullet to homer twice in one game since Brian Pernice '07 did it in a 7-3 loss to York (Pa.) on May 1, 2007.

Sophomore Matt Karis (Southborough, Mass./Noble & Greenough) also went deep, clubbing his first collegiate homer. It was Gettysburg's first three-homer game since its 14-2 win over Mt. Aloysius on March 11, 2007.

Sophomore Cam Riera (Medway, Mass./Medway) finished 2-for-5 with a pair of runs while freshman Augie Stadtmueller (Bernardsville, N.J./Bernards) went 2-for-4.

Freshman Mike Odierna (Weston, Conn./Weston) threw well in relief for the Bullets, blanking the Blue Jays on two hits over the final two innings while striking out three.

Johns Hopkins (8-7, 1-0 CC), which blasted four home runs, was led by Brian Youchak, who was 4-for-5 with two runs, two RBIs, and a homer.

Gettysburg (7-11, 0-1 CC) went up 2-0 after Karis jacked a two-run blast in the top of the first, but the Blue Jays (8-7, 1-0 CC) answered with a six spot in the bottom of the inning. The Blue Jays added eight more runs over the next three innings off three different Bullet pitchers to assume their 12-run advantage.

The Bullets cut into the deficit with a five-run fifth, capped by a three-run homer from Langhauser, to make it 14-7. But the Blue Jays answered with four runs in the sixth to go up 18-7.

Gettysburg scratched out single runs in the seventh and eighth before Langhauser launched his second homer – a two-run shot – in the top of the ninth.

Junior starter Derek Zaleski (Haddonfield, N.J./Haddonfield) threw two-thirds of an inning and was charged with the loss for Gettysburg, dropping to 1-3. Matt Goldman (1-0) worked the first five frames for Hopkins to pick up the win.

The two teams meet again on Friday at Gettysburg starting at 3:30 p.m.