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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Sophomore Matt Karis (Southborough, Mass./Noble & Greenough) threw a seven-hit complete game in the opener and the Bullets pounded out 18 hits in the nightcap as Gettysburg swept a Centennnial Conference doubleheader from Washington (Md.) College Saturday afternoon at a sunny Kirchhoff Field.

Gettysburg (12-12, 5-2 CC), which has won its last four games, captured the opener 3-1 and scored a 15-3 victory in Game Two.

With the second win, Gettysburg 23rd-year head coach John Campo picked up his 400th career victory, all of which have come with the Bullets. He is the careeer wins leader at Gettysburg and ranks second in all-time victories in Centennial Conference history.

Junior Craig Barrows (Whippany, N.J./Whippany Park) and sophomore Chris Simard (Lexington, Mass./Belmont Hill) led Gettysburg, as each player finished 4-for-7 and scored two and three runs, respectively, for the afternoon. Freshman Drew Roy (Needham, Mass./Needham) was 3-for-7 with three runs and three RBIs while junior Mike Backus (Piscataway, N.J./Immaculata) had three hits and three RBIs.

Sophomore Kyle Conklin (Wantage, N.J./High Point) started the second game for the Bullets and held the Shoremen to one run on seven hits while posting a career-high seven strikeouts.

Five Bullet pitchers combined to allow only two earned runs over the twinbill.

Gettysburg, which never trailed in either game, tied its highest hit total since an 18-15 win over Haverford on April 22, 2007.

Washington (8-11, 2-5 CC) was led by freshman Ben Jardot, who was 3-for-4.

In the opener, which finished in a tidy one hour, 32 minutes, the Bullets broke a scoreless tie when it pushed across an unearned run against starter Joe Coveney in the bottom of the fourth. Roy reached on a one-out error, then scored from first when a two-out flyball was dropped by the leftfielder.

The Shoremen tied it up with a three-hit sixth, but the Bullets came back with two runs in the bottom of the inning, scoring one of their runs on another error. Karis roped a one-out double, and Roy followed up with a single. A wild pitch put runners on second and third before Coveney struck out a batter. However, the ball got by the catcher, and after he threw to first for the out, the first baseman threw the ball away as Karis scored, also allowing Roy to move to third. Junior Kevin Langhauser (Basking Ridge, N.J./Ridge) followed up with an RBI-single to set the final score.

Karis (4-1) hurled a three-up, three-down seventh to win his second straight start. He finished with five strikeouts and one walk while completing his fifth game in six starts.

Coveney (0-1) yielded six hits, struck out nine, and did not issue a walk.

The nightcap was a start contrast to the opener, with Gettysburg scoring in every inning but the eighth. The Bullets scored 10 unanswered runs over the first five innings before the Shoremen crossed the plate in the sixth.

Gettysburg received all the offense it would need in a five-hit first inning, which was capped by a two-run double from Roy.

Conklin (2-1) did not allow a hit until the third inning and carried a shutout into the sixth, when the Shoremen scored once on four hits. Junior Michael Sweeney (Bethesda, Md./St. Anselm's Abbey) was tagged for a pair of unearned runs in the seventh before senior Will Kleva (Ocean City, Md./Ocean City) and freshman Mike Odierna (Weston, Conn./Weston) fired one shutout inning apiece.

Barrows was 3-for-5 with two runs and two RBIs in the second game while Backus was 3-for-6 with three RBIs. Roy went 2-for-4 and drove in three runs while sophomore Cam Riera (Medway, Mass./Medway) finished 2-for-4 with two runs. Simard went 3-for-4 and scored three times while freshman Augie Stadtmueller (Bernardsville, N.J./Bernards) was also in on the hit parade, going 2-for-3 with three runs.

Starter Chris Smith (2-3) worked two innings and suffered the loss for Washington.

Gettysburg returns to action on Monday, when it visits Dickinson College in a Centennial Conference, nine-inning game starting at 3:30 p.m. in a contest that has been rescheduled twice.