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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Needing a win to keep its Centennial Conference playoff hopes alive, the Gettysburg College baseball erupted with a six-run seventh inning and rallied twice for an 11-7 victory in the nightcap of a conference doubleheader with Haverford College on Saturday at Kirchhoff Field to come away with a split.

Haverford (17-12-1, 11-5 CC) won the opener 8-4.

With four league games left on their schedule, the Bullets (14-17, 7-7 CC) are now in sixth place in the conference standings and a game and a half behind Johns Hopkins (8-5 CC) for the fourth and final playoff spot. McDaniel (7-6 CC) is also a half game in front of Gettysburg.

Freshman Drew Roy (Needham, Mass./Needham) led the Bullets with a big day at the plate, going 5-for-7 over the two games, including a 4-for-4 effort in the nightcap while driving in what held up as the game-winning run. Sophomore Matt Karis (Southborough, Mass./Noble & Greenough) contributed a 4-for-6 performance to go with three runs scored while junior Kevin Langhauser (Basking Ridge, N.J./Ridge) hit safely in both games to extend his hitting streak to 14, the longest by a Bullet since Mike Luteran's 16-gamer in 2003.

Gettysburg was held to three hits over the first four innings of the nightcap, but exploded for 13 over the next three frames and finished with 16 safeties. Every starter had at least one hit and all but one had at least one RBI.

Haverford went ahead 3-0 through three and a half innings against starter Will Kleva (Ocean City, N.J./Ocean City) before the Bullets tied it up with a three-run fifth that knocked starter Jonny Williams from the game. The inning included a leadoff double from Roy and an RBI-double from senior Sam Stabert (Wynnewood, Pa./Lower Merion).

After the Fords went ahead with a two-run sixth, the Bullets pulled even in the bottom of the inning, getting an RBI-single from Roy and a sacrifice fly from sophomore Chris Simard (Lexington, Mass./Belmont Hill). Haverford went back in front for the second time, scoring twice in the seventh, but that's when Gettysburg came up with its big inning in which it sent 11 batters to the plate. Junior Mike Backus (Piscataway, N.J./Immaculata) tied it up at 7-7 with a two-run double before Roy singled for his fourth straight hit while knocking in the go-ahead run. Simard tacked on a run-scoring single before Stabert drove in a pair of with a single of his own.

Backus' double was his 14th of the year, and he tied Chip Rossi's single-season school record set in 1987.

Sophomore Kyle Conklin (Wantage, N.J./High Point) picked up the win in relief for the Bullets, throwing the final four innings. Conklin (3-2) allowed three runs (two earned) while striking out three and walking none. Dan Hochberg (1-2) suffered the loss for the Fords.

Stabert finished the nightcap 2-for-4 with three RBIs while Backus, Karis, and senior Scott Vladyka (Stanhope, N.J./Lenape Valley) had two hits apiece. Simard drove in three runs.

The roles were reversed in the opener, as Haverford outscored the Bullets 8-1 after Gettysburg jumped to a 3-0 lead in the first inning. Karis drove in the game's first run with a double before Langhauser brought home two more with his Centennial Conference-leading seventh triple of the season and his third in as many games.

The Fords scored once in the second before the Bullets plated their final run in the third, when junior Craig Barrows (Whippany, N.J./Whippany Park) led off with a double and scored on a double-steal attempt. However, Haverford closed the game with seven unanswered runs, getting one in the fourth before throwing up a three-spot in both the fifth and sixth.

Walks would prove to be costly in the fourth and fifth for the Bullets, as the Fords scored on a bases-loaded freebie in the fourth. Haverford also scored its final run in the fifth on a bases-loaded walk, Gettysburg's third straight free pass. An error also hurt the Bullets in the fifth, when the two of the Fords runs were unearned.

After a tough first inning, Ford starter Stefan Pappius-Lefebvre (6-2) settled in and finished strong, retiring his last 10 batters. He finished with a six-hit complete game, walking one and fanning one.

Sophomore Mike Odierna (Weston, Conn./Weston) made his first collegiate start for the Bullets and absorbed the loss. Odierna (0-1) yielded five runs (three earned), struck out four, and walked five in 4 2/3 innings of work.

Karis went 2-for-3 in the opener while Barrows scored a pair of runs.

Gettysburg closes out its six-game, four-day Centennial Conference stretch when it visits Swarthmore College for a doubleheader on Sunday starting at 12:30 p.m.