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STEVENSON, Md. – Gettysburg erased an early 3-0 deficit, but host Stevenson University scored in the bottom of the eighth and held on to spoil the Bullets season opener in a 4-3 Mustang victory Tuesday afternoon in non-conference baseball action.

Stevenson (7-5), already playing its 12th game of the season, put two runs on the scoreboard in the bottom of the first on two walks and an error. The Mustangs tacked on another run in the second on a pair of singles and another error to take their early 3-0 advantage.

The hosts would threaten in each of the next four innings, but junior starter Ryan Taylor worked out of trouble to blank Stevenson for the remainder of his outing. Taylor threw six innings for the day and was tagged for three runs (one earned) on eight hits and four walks. He struck out five.

Gettysburg scored its first run of the year in the fourth, when seniors Drew Roy and Clint O'Brien led off with a single and a walk, respectively, before pulling a double steal. Roy then scored on a groundout off the bat of sophomore Cam MacDonald.

The Bullets added single runs in the seventh and eighth to draw even. In the seventh, sophomore Zach Parsons stroked a two-out pinch-hit single to score classmate Al Posch, who had led off the inning with a single. Posch followed up with an RBI-single in the eighth to plate pinch-runner Austin Davis. But with the go-ahead run at third, reliever Chris Street (1-0) induced a flyout to end the inning, then worked the ninth to pick up the win.

Posch finished 2-for-3 for the Bullets. Sophomore Drew Felsenthal was charged with the loss after yielding one run on two hits and a walk in 1 1/3 innings of relief.

Gettysburg returns to the diamond next week during its Spring Break trip to Fort Myers, Fla., where it will play 10 games over seven days.