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SWARTHMORE, Pa. – The Gettysburg College baseball team's bid for a Centennial Conference playoff berth came to an end at Swarthmore College on Sunday as the Bullets were swept by the Garnet by scores of 4-2 in the opener and 7-2 in the nightcap.

With the two losses, Gettysburg (14-19, 7-9 CC) is now three and a half games behind Johns Hopkins University (10-5 CC), which swept Franklin & Marshall College on Sunday, for the fourth and final conference playoff spot with only a doubleheader against Ursinus College on Saturday remaining.

The Bullets, who never led in either game, received three hits from junior Kevin Langhauser (Basking Ridge, N.J./Ridge), who extended his hitting streak to 16, equaling the longest by a Gettysburg player since Mike Luteran in 2003. Classmate Mike Backus (Piscataway, N.J./Immaculata) doubled in the nightcap – his 15th two-bagger of the year, to break the single-season school record set by Chip Rossi in 1987.

Despite making four errors that led to a pair of unearned runs in the opener, the Bullets had the tying run on base in the top of the seventh. Trailing 4-1 heading into the inning, Langhauser led off with an infield single before freshman Drew Roy (Needham, Mass./Needham) singled to right. After a 6-4-3 double play, senior Pat Hanley (Buffalo, N.Y./Nichols School) ripped a pinch-hit, RBI-single to center. Senior Sam Stabert (Wynnewood, Pa./Lower Merion) then reached on an error to put runners on the corners, but Neil Mejia (3-4) induced a game-ending flyout to finish with a seven-hit complete game.

Swarthmore pushed across an unearned run in the bottom of the first when, with two outs and runners on second and third, a throwing error by the shortstop made it 1-0. Gettysburg tied it up in the top of the second, when junior Craig Barrows (Whippany, N.J./Whippany Park) led off with a single and scored on a groundout.

The Garnet went in front to stay in the bottom of the inning, scoring twice on two hits and one error. After a leadoff single from Conor Casey, a sacrifice bunt attempt was thrown away to put runners on first and second. Anthony Montalbano knocked in the go-ahead run with a double before an unearned run scored on a groundout.

Swarthmore pushed its lead to 4-1 in the fourth, getting a single from Ben Schneiderman and a triple from Montalbano. But starter Michael Sweeney (Bethesda, Md./St. Anselm's Abbey School) blanked the Garnet over the last two innings to finish with a complete game. Sweeney (1-4) yielded only two earned runs while walking two and striking out four.

Barrows and Langhauser each finished 2-for-3 for the Bullets.

Swarthmore raced out to a 7-0 lead in the nightcap and did the bulk of its damage with a four-run second against junior Matt Zwaan (Berwyn, Pa./Malvern Prep), who was making his first collegiate start. The Garnet had only two hits in its big inning but drew two walks and had one hit batsman to forge a 6-0 advantage.

Junior John Antrim-Cashin (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y./Fordham Prep) came on in relief in the third and pitched well over six innings, allowing only one run on two hits and one walk while striking out a career-high seven.

The Bullets scored single runs in the seventh and eighth on RBI-singles from junior Cory Beddick (Columbia, Pa./Hempfield) and sophomore Matt Karis (Southborough, Mass./Noble & Greenough), respectively, to set the final score.

Beddick led Gettysburg in the nightcap, going 2-for-3.

Zach Weiner (1-1) threw seven innings to pick up the win for the Garnet. He gave up six hits, walked two and fanned three.

The Bullets return to the diamond on Monday, when they host Juniata College in a non-conference game starting at 3:30 p.m.