Box Score
CARLISLE, Pa. – Sophomore
Eric Hungerford (New Preston, Conn./Shepaug Valley) spun a three-hit shutout while junior
Patrick O'Grady (Floral Park, N.Y./Archbishop Molloy) recorded his 100th career hit as the Gettysburg College baseball team edged Dickinson College 1-0 on the road in a Centennial Conference makeup game on Sunday.
The Bullets (19-10, 6-4 CC), who won their fourth game in a row, completed a season sweep over Dickinson (11-18, 2-8 CC), though their win over the Red Devils earlier in the week could have been more different. Gettysburg won 14-11 on Tuesday in a game that featured a combined 33 hits and last over three hours.
Sunday's game was originally scheduled for Friday but was rained out.
Hungerford (5-1) fired his third shutout of the season and was nearly perfect over the last four innings, when he allowed only a pair of baserunners and retired 17 of the last 19 batters he faced. It was his second win over Dickinson in six days, as he held the Devils to three earned runs while striking out seven over 6 1/3 innings on Tuesday. Hungerford's performance capped an incredible weekend for Gettysburg pitching, which allowed only one earned run and one walk and to go with 25 strikeouts over 28 innings.
O'Grady became the third Bullet to reach the century mark in hits when he led off the top of the second with a single to right. Juniors
Al Posch (Hopedale, Mass./Hopedale) and
Nate Simon (Gwynedd Valley, Pa./Abington Friends School) also achieved the milestone this year as did senior
Pat Cody (Chesapeake, Va./Great Bridge) in 2012.
Cody and sophomore
Scott Zanghellini (Randolph, N.J./Randolph) finished the day 2-for-4 while Cody extended his hitting streak to 17 games. Posch also singled and has now hit safely in 14 straight.
Harley Moore (3-5) did not allow an earned run while throwing a complete game for Dickinson. He scattered eight hits and struck out six.
For the second game in a row, Simon drove in the decisive run. After stroking a walk-off single in the 10th inning of a 4-3 win over Washington College on Saturday, Simon delivered a sacrifice fly in the third. He scored junior
Tommy LeNoir (Bear, Del./Red Lion Christian Academy), who led off with a single before moving to third on a passed ball and a Cody single.
The Devils put up their biggest threat against Hungerford in the fourth when they put runners on second and third with two outs following a single, walk, and groundout. But Hungerford escaped with another groundout, and the rest of the way Dickinson would manage to reach only on an error in the seventh and a hit batsman in the ninth.
Gettysburg picks up its schedule on Monday, when it hosts Juniata College in a non-conference makeup game starting at 3:30 p.m.