Box Score

WESTMINSTER, Md. – The road to the Centennial Conference (CC) baseball title will run through Gettysburg College.
 
Senior Tommy LeNoir (Bear, Del./Red Lion Christian Academy) finished 4-for-5 with a double and a triple while junior Eric Hungerford (New Preston, Conn./Shepaug Valley) tossed eight innings to earn the victory as the 22nd-ranked Bullets won 8-3 at McDaniel College on Tuesday.
 
With the win, Gettysburg (28-5, 13-2 CC) clinched first place in the Centennial Conference regular-season standings and for the first time in program history, the right to host the CC tournament.
 
Junior Cory Karagjozi (Robbinsville, N.J./Robbinsville), making his first career start at first base, went 3-for-4  and three runs for the Bullets, ranked 22nd by the American Baseball Coaches Association and No. 24 by D3baseball.com. Senior Al Posch (Hopedale, Mass./Hopedale) finished 3-for-5 with three RBIs while classmate Nate Simon (Gwynedd Valley, Pa./Abington Friends) and junior Mike Kielbasa (Ludlow, Mass./Loomis Chaffee School) collected two hits apiece. Senior Austin Davis (New York, N.Y./Riverdale Country School) scored a pair of runs.
 
Jack Dowd (2-2) also threw eight innings and gave up five runs on 13 hits for the Green Terror (14-16, 8-7 CC), which is in contention for a conference playoff spot and entered the day as one of three teams tied for second in the conference standings.
 
The Bullets never trailed after Davis led off the game with a single and scored on a triple from Karagjozi. Simon added an RBI-single later in the inning to give the visitors a 2-0 lead after a half inning of play.
 
Hungerford (6-0), in the meantime, faced little resistance through the early innings, when he retired 11 of the first 12 batters he faced and fanned the side in the third. Though McDaniel would touch him for seven hits, Hungerford allowed the Terror to reach second base just once through the first seven innings while keeping his perfect record intact.
 
The Bullets opened up some breathing room with a three-run fifth. Karagjozi stroked a one-out single before scoring on a double from Posch. LeNoir followed up with an RBI-triple – his seventh three-bagger of the season – before scoring on a single from Kielbasa to make it 5-0.
 
McDaniel got on the scoreboard in the eighth, when it opened the inning with a single, triple, and sacrifice fly to push across two runs and pull to within 5-2. But Hungerford went on to strand two runners later in the inning before giving way to senior Patrick O'Grady (Floral Park, N.Y./Archbishop Molloy), who worked the ninth while allowing only an unearned run.
 
Prior to O'Grady's appearance, Gettysburg had tacked on three insurance runs. Reliever Ben Van Put walked Davis and Kargjozi before Posch greeted David Pisauro with a two-run single. LeNoir would cap Gettysburg's scoring for the day with an RBI-double to make it 8-2.
 
The two teams conclude their season series on Friday, when they meet for a single nine-inning game at Gettysburg starting at 3:30 p.m.