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FORT MYERS, Fla. – Powered by outstanding pitching, the Gettysburg College baseball team earned its second straight sweep to open its Spring Break trip to Florida, defeating Rockford College 4-2 and 3-1 on Monday.

Over 20 innings, the Bullets allowed just three hits and no earned runs.

The first game went to 11 innings, and sophomore Eric Hungerford (New Preston, Conn./Shepaug Valley) turned in a dominant performance out of the bullpen. Pitching the final six innings, he did not allow a hit or a run and racked up a career-high 10 strikeouts while picking up the victory. Hungerford retired 18 of the 19 batters he faced, with his only blemish being a two-out walk in the eighth.

In the nightcap, junior Chris Yoda (Wall, N.J./Wall) and freshman Luke Lawrence (West Chester, Pa./West Chester East) combined on a nine-inning one-hitter. Yoda carried a no-hitter into the sixth and pitched 6 1/3 innings before giving way to Lawrence, who earned the win.

Over the first four games of its southern swing, the Bullet pitching staff has yet to allow an earned run while yielding just 11 hits over 34 innings.

Junior Al Posch (Hopedale, Mass./Hopedale) finished the day 5-for-9 with two doubles while driving in the go-ahead runs in the 11th of the opener. Classmate Austin Davis (New York, N.Y./Riverdale Country School) finished 5-for-10 with three runs.

Gettysburg (5-1) outhit Rockford 15-2 in the opener but left 12 runners on base. The Bullets took a 1-0 lead in the top of the fifth on an RBI-single from junior Tommy LeNoir (Bear, Del./Red Lion Christian Academy), but the Regents managed to score twice without a hit in the bottom of the inning against senior starter John Donovan (Fairfield, Conn./Fairfield Ludlowe). Rockford loaded the bases on a pair of hit batsmen and a fielding error before scoring on a walk and a third hit batsman.

The Bullets tied it in the eighth. Posch scored all the way from first when the Regents (1-2) threw the ball away on a sacrifice bunt attempt, but Rockford got out of the inning when its rightfielder threw out senior Pat Cody (Chesapeake, Va./Great Bridge) attempting to score on a sacrifice fly, marking the Regents second outfield assist of the game.

In the 11th, O'Grady and Davis singled before Posch cleared the bases with a double to left.

In the meantime, Hungerford (1-1) was nearly perfect. He fanned the side in the sixth and the 10th and did not allow the ball out of the infield in five of his innings, including the last four frames.

Junior Patrick O'Grady (Floral Park, N.Y./Archbishop Molloy) finished 3-for-4 with two runs in the opener while Davis, LeNoir, Posch, junior Nate Simon (Gwynedd Valley, Pa./Abington Friends School), and junior Ben Roessle (Summit, N.J./Summit) all recorded two hits. Donovan allowed just two hits and a pair of unearned runs over five innings, walking three and striking out three.


For the third time in four games, Davis led off with a hit, singling to left. He moved up to third when a ball was thrown away at second before scoring on a single by Posch.

Yoda, making just his third career start, retired 16 of the first 17 batters he faced, with the only baserunner coming via an error in the third. But he ran into trouble in the sixth, when he hit the team's No. 9 hitter with one out before the No. 2 batter doubled to put runners on second and third with two outs. However, Yoda escaped with a groundout.

The Regents finally got on the scoreboard in the seventh. With one out, Rockford loaded the bases on a walk, error, and hit batsman before Lawrence was summoned out of the pen. He induced a fielder's choice that scored a run, and after another hit batsman reloaded the bases, he got out of it with another grounder to himself.

Gettysburg managed just three hits from the second through the seventh but a costly error led to a pair of runs. Davis singled before scoring on a throwing error by the shortstop during the next at-bat, which allowed LeNoir to reach. Two batters later, Cody knocked in LeNoir with a single to right.

Lawrence retired the side in order in the eighth, but the leadoff batter reached on an error in the top of the ninth. But the Bullet defense came through again two batters later, turning a 4-6-3 game-ending double play. Four of Gettysburg's five victories have now ended with a double play.

Yoda walked one and struck out three while Lawrence (1-0), making his collegiate debut, walked none and fanned two.

Davis went 3-for-4 with two runs in the second game while Posch was also 3-for-4.

The Bullets return to action on Tuesday, playing the United States Coast Guard Academy in one game starting at 4 p.m.