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HAVERFORD, Pa. – The day didn't start out quite the way the Gettysburg College softball team had hoped, but the Bullets bounced back from a loss in game one to win the nightcap at Haverford College and clinch both a spot in the Centennial Conference Tournament and head coach Sam Abrams' 100th career win.

Gettysburg (20-15, 10-6 CC) finished in a three-way tie with Ursinus College (23-16, 10-6 CC) and Muhlenberg College (19-19, 10-6 CC) in the conference standings. The Bullets held the tiebreaker with a 3-1 record against the other two schools and earned the No. 3 seed for the playoffs behind host McDaniel College (23-11, 13-3 CC) and Washington College (19-18, 11-5 CC). Ursinus won the final playoff spot with a 2-2 record against Gettysburg and Muhlenberg.

Haverford (17-18, 3-13 CC) held the hard-hitting Gettysburg bats silent in the opener as Claire Fitzgerald scattered seven hits in a 1-0 shutout. Gabrielle Sapienza provided the only run with a solo home run in the bottom of the fifth.

Gettysburg stranded runners in scoring position three times, including in the fifth when freshman Melissa Tighe and senior Catrina DelGais led off with infield singles. After a sacrifice moved the runners to second and third, Fitzgerald closed the door with a strikeout and a grounder to third.

DelGais finished 2-for-4 in the opener. Freshman Lindsey Treanor fell to 9-5 with the loss after allowing five hits and two walks while striking out three.

The Bullets bounced back in the nightcap with 14 hits. The squad put up five runs in the first two innings highlighted by a two-run double by sophomore Maggie Maguire.

Leading 6-1 heading into the sixth, the visitors tacked on three more runs as senior Adrienne Rahs tied the school's single-season record with her seventh home run, a three-run shot to center field. She tied the mark set by Maguire last spring and she is now just one shy of the career home run mark of 13 shared by Mandy Wilson '02 and Heather Sagaities '08.

Tighe finished 4-for-5 with three runs scored, while Maguire posted three hits and three RBI in the nightcap. Junior Joy Hallfors notched a pair of hits and scored two runs and DelGais picked up two more hits and an RBI.

Senior Lanie Parr earned the win after allowing four runs on six hits and striking out five in 5.2 innings.

Abrams became just the second softball coach to earn 100 wins at Gettysburg since the program started in 1981. The Bullet coach currently owns a record of 100-76 in five seasons and joined former mentor Mike Kirkpatrick who racked up a record of 358-178-1 in 18 seasons (1990-2007).

Gettysburg will face Washington in the first game of the double-elimination CC Tournament on Saturday, May 4. Host McDaniel will face Ursinus in the second game. Game times will be released on Monday, April 30.