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ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The Gettysburg College baseball team continued its run of outstanding pitching and the Bullets swept a Centennial Conference doubleheader at Muhlenberg College on Saturday.

The Bullets (23-10, 9-4 CC), who have now won eight straight games, captured the opener 7-1 before claiming the nightcap 8-0. Gettysburg is on its longest winning streak since an eight-gamer that overlapped the 2006 and 2007 seasons and its longest in one season since the 1998 Bullets won eight straight.

Senior Ryan Taylor (Eldersburg, Md./Loyola Blakefield) tossed a five-hitter in the first game while tying a career-high with 12 strikeouts. He now ranks seconds in school history in career strikeouts (240) and is tied for seconds in wins (20).

Junior Drew Felsenthal (Mt. Kisco, N.Y./Horace Greeley) spun a six-hitter in Game Two, striking out six and walking none while earning his second shutout of the season and the team's sixth of the year.

The Bullets have now yielded just nine earned runs over their last seven games, including just four over their last six Centennial Conference outings.

Taylor and Felsenthal were the beneficiaries of a defense that did not commit an error on the afternoon.

At the plate, senior Pat Cody (Chesapeake, Va./Great Bridge) and junior Al Posch (Hopedale, Mass./Hopdedale) hit safely in both games to extend their hitting streaks to 21 and 18 games, respectively. Junior Nate Simon (Gwynedd Valley, Pa./Abington Friends School) finished the day 5-for-9, junior Austin Davis (New York, N.Y./Riverdale Country School) went 6-for-12, and classmate Cam MacDonald (Norwell, Mass./Norwell) was 5-for-10.

After going homerless over its opening 29 games, Gettysburg has now had a long ball in each of its last four games.

The Bullets spotted Taylor a 6-0 lead over three and a half innings, capped by a two-run homer from junior Ben Roessle (Summit, N.J./Summit) in the fourth to chase starter Nick Gies (2-1) after 3 2/3 innings. It was the first career homer for Roessle.

The Mules (17-16, 5-9 CC) scored their lone run in the fourth on a double followed by a two-out single from Nick Kennedy. But that's all the hosts would manage against Taylor (5-2), who was baffling the rest of the way. He retired 16 of the last 18 batters, including the final 12 after allowing a leadoff single in the sixth.

A pair of Muhlenberg relievers held the Bullets to one run over the last 5 1/3 innings. Davis finished 4-for-6 for Gettysburg while Simon went 3-for-5. Roessle knocked in three runs.

Gettysburg also scored early and often in the nightcap, jumping to a 6-0 lead after two and a half innings against starter Matthew Lawsky (3-2). Junior Tommy LeNoir (Bear, Del./Red Lion Christian Academy) put the Bullets on the scoreboard with a two-run homer in the first – his second dinger of the week and the fourth of his career. Simon and Roessle drove in runs with a single and double, respectively, as part of a three-run third as the Bullets lead ballooned to six.

Roessle set the final score with a two-run single in the sixth against reliever Tim Velys.

Felsenthal (5-1) allowed just one runner to reach third – when Joseph Vila tripled with one out in the first. But he induced an inning-ending groundout and scattered five singles and a hit batsman over the last eight innings.

The Mules put runners on first and second in the fourth but Felsenthal got an inning-ending flyout. The Bullet defense then stepped up, turning back-to-back double plays in the seventh and eighth. Posch supplied an outfield assist to end the eighth with a 9-6 twin killing.

Roessle went 2-for-5 with three RBIs in the nightcap while MacDonald went 3-for-5.

Gettysburg returns to action on Monday when it hosts third-ranked Johns Hopkins University in Centennial Conference make-up game starting at 3:30 p.m.