Box Score

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Five Bullets combined on a four-hit shutout and the 22nd-ranked Gettysburg College baseball team ripped 20 hits en route to a 16-0 win over Penn State-York on a record-setting and rainy day at Kirchhoff Field Monday afternoon.
 
With the non-conference win, the Bullets (31-6) break the single-season record for victories set a year ago while winning for the 23rd time in its last 24 home games.
 
Individually, senior Nate Simon (Gwynedd Valley, Pa./Abington Friends School) had a memorable day for Gettysburg. He finished 4-for-4 with three runs and four RBIs while breaking the school record for single-season RBIs of 44 set by Andrew Sheeley '88 in 1988. In addition, his fourth hit of the game – a single down the first-base line – marked hit No. 200, as he became the first player in school history to reach the milestone. Simon broke Gettysburg's career hits record with his 194th hit this past Saturday.
 
Freshman Will Anderson (Long Valley, N.J./Morris Central) finished 3-for-3 with a double, two runs, and three RBIs for the Bullets, who had 24 different players enter the game. Junior Mike Kielbasa (Ludlow, Mass./Loomis Chaffee School) was 3-for-4 with two runs and two RBIs while senior Austin Davis (New York, N.Y./Riverdale Country School) scored three runs and classmate Al Posch (Hopedale, Mass./Hopedale) smacked his second home run of the season.
 
Freshman Eric Brown (Marriottsville, Md./Marriotts Ridge) earned the win on the mound, throwing five innings of two-hit ball while walking three and striking out three.
 
Ryan Seibert suffered the loss for Penn State-York (14-13), throwing 4 1/3 innings and allowing 15 runs (10 earned) on 15 hits.
 
The Bullets scored three runs in the first, capped by a two-run triple from Kielbasa, before batting around in a six-run second. Simon delivered a three-run double in the inning as Gettysburg went up 9-0.
 
After Seibert threw a pair of scoreless innings, Gettysburg came back with another six-spot while batting around again in the fifth, when Posch drilled a two-run homer down the leftfield line.
 
Jake Newcomer came on to get the final two outs in the fifth for the Lions, then allowed just one run over his last three innings.
 
Brown (2-0), making his third collegiate start, stranded four runners over the first four innings before retiring his final six batters. Freshman Aaron Bezio (Stafford, Va./Mountain View) and seniors Brett Harrington (North Bennington, Vt./Mt. Anthony Union), Rob Stalzer (Merrick, N.Y./Bellmore JFK), and Joe Saladino (Merrick, N.Y./Calhoun) polished off the shutout with one scoreless inning apiece.
 
Gettysburg is scheduled to visit Messiah College on Tuesday at 4 p.m. in another non-conference game and the team's regular-season finale. The Bullets will then serve as the host for the Centennial Conference Championships, beginning with a first-round game versus Johns Hopkins University on Thursday. The tournament will continue at Kirchhoff Field on Saturday and Sunday.