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Felsenthal, Hungerford Pitch Baseball to Sweep

Bullets Take a Pair From Wisconsin Lutheran; Posch Hitting Streak Now at 37

Eric Hungerford worked his 11th career complete game.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. – Senior Drew Felsenthal (Mount Kisco, N.Y./Horace Greeley) and junior Eric Hungerford (New Preston, Conn./Shepaug Valley) each fired a complete game while senior Al Posch (Hopedale, Mass./Hopedale) batted safely in both games to stretch his hitting streak to 37 as the Gettysburg College baseball team swept Wisconsin Lutheran College on Friday, the next-to-last day of the squad's Spring Break trip to Florida.

Gettysburg (6-3) won the opener 9-5 and captured the nightcap 4-2.

Felsenthal and Hungerford combined for 19 strikeouts and just two walks over 14 innings pitched.

Senior Nate Simon (Gwynedd Valley, Pa./Abington Friends School) finished the doubleheader 4-for-7 with three runs and smacked the team's first home run of the season.

The Warriors fell to 5-3 on the season.

After a 21-hit outburst in its victory over Monmouth (Ill.) on Thursday, the Bullets followed up with an 11-hit attack in the opener. Gettysburg got on the scoreboard first, as senior Tommy LeNoir (Bear, Del./Red Lion Christian Academy) tripled and scored in the second.

The Bullets went up 3-2 in the third on an RBI-double from Simon and a run-scoring single from junior Mike Kielbasa (Ludlow, Mass./Loomis Chaffee School). Wisconsin Lutheran tied it in the top of the fourth before Gettysburg plated four runs in the bottom half of the inning to take a 7-3 lead. Senior Patrick O'Grady (Floral Park, N.Y./Archbishop Molloy) drilled a bases-loaded, two-run double before Posch and Simon drove in runs on a groundout and single.

The Warriors made it a two-run game after plating single runs in the fifth and sixth, but the Bullets responded with a two-run sixth that included an error, a hit batsman, and two hits, including another RBI-single from Kielbasa.

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Felsenthal (2-1) fanned the side in the seventh to finish off his fifth career complete game while setting a career-high with 10 strikeouts. He walked just one and scattered nine hits. Felsenthal's sixth strikeout gave him 100 Ks for his career.

Kielbasa finished 2-for-4 with three RBIs while Simon went 2-for-3 with two runs and two RBIs.

Josh Ruppel (1-1) took the loss for Wisconsin Lutheran, allowing seven runs on nine hits through the first four innings.

Hungerford was in control early on in the nightcap, allowing just two hits and no runs over the first five innings. The Warriors hit a two-run homer in the sixth to make the score 4-2, but Hungerford buckled down to retire the final six batters he faced.

Simon sparked the offense in the top of the second, belting a solo home run. The Bullets would leave the bases loaded without scoring another run in the inning but went up 2-0 in the third. Posch doubled to left to keep his hitting streak alive before scoring on a single from LeNoir two batters later.

Gettysburg stretched its lead to 4-0 in the fifth. Junior Cory Karagjozi (Robbinsville, N.J./Robbinsville) clouted an RBI-double to chase starter Travis Stahulak before senior Mike Elisio (Bensalem, Pa./Holy Ghost Prep) greeted reliever Andrew Iverson with a run-scoring single.

Simon went 2-for-4 and has now batted safely in all nine games this season and in 10 straight games dating back to last season.

Hungerford (2-0), who surpassed 100 career strikeouts in his last start, finished with a four-hit complete game and went the distance for the 11th time in his career. He walked one and struck out nine – one shy of his career-high.

Stahulak (0-1) threw 4 2/3 innings, allowing four runs (one earned) while walking three and striking out three.

The Bullets conclude their trip on Saturday, when they take on Pitt-Bradford in a doubleheader beginning at 10 a.m.
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