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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The Gettysburg College baseball team earned a split with Swarthmore College in a Centennial Conference doubleheader on Saturday at a blustery Kirchhoff Field.

The Bullets (12-6, 2-2 CC) fell 7-3 in the opener but won 9-5 in the nightcap.

Sophomore Nate Simon, senior Clint O'Brien, and senior Austin Davis all collected four hits for Gettysburg while sophomore Drew Felsenthal pitched eight innings to earn the win in the second game. Sophomore Al Posch pushed his hitting streak to 12 while O'Brien has now hit safely in each of his last eight games.

The Bullets held a one-run lead heading into the fifth before the Garnet plated the final five runs of the game over the next two innings. Making his first collegiate start, sophomore Chris Yoda carried a 3-2 lead into the fifth but was unable to complete the inning. Swarthmore scored three runs on three hits, with Danny McMahon capping the inning with a two-run double against junior reliever John Donovan.

The Garnet tacked on a pair of runs on four hits and an error in the sixth before Donovan settled in, blanking Swarthmore the rest of the way.

Gettysburg outhit Swarthmore 12-11 in the opener but left 16 runners on base. The Bullets put runners on second and third with one out in the fifth, then loaded the bases on a two-out walk before starting pitching Zach Weiner escaped on a pop-out. Gettysburg had the bags full with two down again in the eighth, but reliever Adam Hardy induced a flyout to put out the threat.

Weiner (3-1) picked up the win, throwing 7 2/3 innings. Yoda (1-1) was dealt the loss, allowing five runs on five hits and two walks over 4 2/3. Donovan tossed the final 4 1/3 innings and yielded two runs on six hits.

Davis led the Bullets at the plate, going 3-for-6. He singled in his first at-bat to stretch his season-opening streak of reaching base safely to 12 plate appearances before striking out looking in the third.

Posch, junior Pat Cody, and Simon all had two hits for the Bullets in the first game.

Gettysburg trailed just once in the nightcap, after Swarthmore took a 1-0 lead in the second. But an RBI-single from sophomore Alex Freeman tied it in in the bottom of the frame before classmate Cam MacDonald put the Bullets in front to stay with a three-run double in the fourth, making it 4-1.

The Garnet closed to within 4-3 after getting single runs in the fifth and seventh before the Bullets answered with a four-run seventh. Senior Drew Roy drove in a run with a single before Simon delivered a run-scoring double down the rightfield line. O'Brien followed up with a two-run single up the middle.

Gettysburg added an unearned in the eighth before the Garnet scored twice against Felsenthal in the ninth. Junior Brett Norton recorded the final three outs.

O'Brien went 3-for-4 in Game Two while Simon was 2-for-4 with a pair of runs. Freeman also scored twice.

Felsenthal (2-1) scattered 11 hits while giving up five runs (three earned). He walked three and struck out three.

Dylan Jeffers (1-2) pitched 6 2/3 innings while taking the loss for Swarthmore. McMahon was 4-for-4 in the nightcap.

Gettysburg returns to the diamond on Tuesday, when it visits Dickinson College in a Centennial Conference game starting at 3:30 p.m.