Box Score
FORT MYERS, Fla. – The Gettysburg College baseball team erupted for 21 hits in a 14-5 victory over Monmouth (Ill.) College during its Spring Break trip to Florida on Thursday.
All nine starters hit safely for the Bullets (4-3), who broke open the game with a nine-run fifth inning in which they sent 13 batters to the plate.
Senior
Al Posch (Hopedale, Mass./Hopedale) singled twice to push his hitting streak to 35 games, dating back to last season. Seniors
Austin Davis (New York, N.Y./Riverdale Country School) and
Tommy LeNoir (Bear, Del./Red Lion Christian Academy) each finished 4-for-6, with LeNoir also driving in three runs and ripping two doubles.
Seniors
Nate Simon (Gwynedd Valley, Pa./Abington Friends School) and
Cam MacDonald (Norwell, Mass./Norwell) each added three RBIs while senior
Patrick O'Grady (Floral Park, N.Y./Archbishop Molloy), Posch, Simon, and MacDonald all had two hits.
Senior
Joe Saladino (Merrick, N.Y./Calhoun) pitched the first five innings for Gettysburg to earn the win before freshman
Rich Power (Toms River, N.J./Monsignor Donovan) tossed four scoreless innings to pick up the save.
Neither team was charged with an error.
The Fighting Scots (2-4) took a 1-0 lead in the first before the Bullets answered with two in the top of the second on RBI-singles from MacDonald and Davis. Monmouth tied it in the bottom half of the inning before the Bullets exploded in the fifth. Simon and MacDonald each had a two-run double in the inning as Gettysburg took an 11-2 lead.
Monmouth answered with three runs against Saladino and Power in the sixth. But Power escaped further damage when he struck out the final two batters of the inning with the bases loaded and one out.
The Bullets tacked on two runs in the seventh and one in the eight.
Saladino (1-0) worked five innings, allowing five runs on 11 hits and no walks. Power was touched for just three hits and two walks while fanning five.
Austin Hardy (0-2) suffered the loss for Monmouth, allowing eight runs on 11 hits through four innings.
Gettysburg continues its trip on Friday, when it takes on Wisconsin Lutheran College in a doubleheader beginning at 10 a.m.
